Good Earth.

(Pulitzer Prize Winner) Earning the Pulitzer Prize more than 70 years ago, this novel remains one of our great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," noted Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. Here she presents a graphic view of the sweeping changes in China through the story of peasant farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan, beginning when the last emperor reigned. Through four pregnancies she toils alongside Wang Lung, finding sustenance in the land. When famine comes, the half-starved family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt-of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception, and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.