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Book Review of The Good Earth

The Good Earth
The Good Earth
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


I first read this book when I was a teenager, and it still speaks to me today, 40 years later. Pearl Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel of China long ago, its terrors, its passions, its rewards. Beautifully written novel.