The timeless Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece followinga humble farmers journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifullyrepackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an Americanclassic.

Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and thesweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with thistimeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his familyas they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and socialupheavals.

Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle oflife: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and rewards. A comment uponthe meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of theglobe (The New York Times), this brilliant novelbeloved by millionsisa universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.

About the Author

Pearl S. Buck (18921973) won the Pulitzer Prize for hernovelThe Good Earthand, in 1938, became the first Americanwoman ever awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.