Buck, 'you have taught us by your works to see the individuals in that great mass of people. At the Nobel Prize banquet in Stockholm, Sweden in 1938, Stockholm Observatory director Bertil Lindblad told Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. The best selling book of the decade, however, told the story not of the American poor, but of a poor Chinese farmer. In 1941, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans showed Americans the respect and dignity of southern sharecroppers in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. At the end of the decade, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath would give faces and names to the 'Okies' displaced by the Dust Bowl. In the 1930s many American writers attempted to express in words the plight of the anonymous millions who suffered most during the Great Depression.

The current title won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize and the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature for its depictions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.King Gustav awards Pearl Buck the Nobel Prize for Literature, Stockholm, Sweden. She is also known for: Letter from Peking, Imperial Woman, Satan Never Sleeps, Dragon Seed and China Sky. The House of Earth series continues in Sons and A House Divided.

Buck was an American writer and novelist. This novel was adapted into an Oscar winning hit movie in 1937 and was largely a factor in helping the relations between the West and China before the battle with Japan. The difficulties that Wang Lung and his family go through, involving heartbreaking scenes where his wife is forced to choose between raising her children in poverty or in ending their life the moment they are born showcase the hardship that plagued pre-World War I China. The novel dwells on the lives of Chinese peasants and shows them in a light that western literature had not dared to before.

Devastated by abject poverty, Wang Lung moves with his family to the city where they survive off charity. Beginning with his wedding to O-Lan, a slave of the House of Hwang, the story follows Wang Lung as he makes and breaks his fortunes. Set in a pre-World War I age, the novel tells the story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant. The Good Earth is the first book in a trilogy which tells the story of peasants in a Chinese Village.

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