Book
The good earth / Pearl S. Buck.
Record details
- ISBN: 0899662994
- ISBN: 9780899662992
- ISBN: 9780743272933 (pbk.) :
- ISBN: 0743272935 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 357 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Washington Square Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Oprah's book club"--Cover.Featuring a WSP reading group guide.
- Awards Note:
- Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.
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- Subject:
- Peasants > China > Fiction.
Married women > China > Fiction.
Pulitzer Prize for Works of Fiction.
China > History > 1928-1937 > Fiction.
China > Social life and customs > Fiction - Genre:
- Family chronicles.
Family chronicles. - Topic Heading:
- Oprah Winfrey Book Club
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Available copies
- 14 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Castlegar Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC BUC (Text) | 35146001908219 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.