House of Earth trilogy
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer prize-winning novel of a China that was now in a contemporary classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In the Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the...
2) Sons
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House of Earth trilogy volume 2
(Pearl Sydenstricker),Good earth trilogy volume 2
(Pearl Sydenstricker),Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck volume 6th
(Pearl Sydenstricker),Good earth trilogy volume 2
(Pearl Sydenstricker),Oriental novels of Pearl S. Buck volume 6th
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Sons is about the differences between three generations. Wang Lung died peacefully in the beginning. The story continued with the three different kinds of life that his three sons led. All of the three sons were concisely portrayed, with a slight emphasis on the third, Wang the Tiger. He rose slowly to the position of a warlord. In order to pass his position to his son as he was growing old, he sent his son to a military school to learn western war...