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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Chinese farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initally devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land, takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realized that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
2) Sons
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1932]
Language
English
Description
The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin. Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and becomes a landlord; another is...
Author
Series
House of Earth trilogy volume 3
Publisher
World
Pub. Date
1935, 1945.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The conclusion to Buck's celebrated Good Earth trilogy: the story of a man's return to a homeland embroiled in revolution. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to study agriculture. When he returns to China six years later, he encounters a nation still...
Author
Publisher
Day
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale of four Chinese-American siblings in New York, and their bewildering return to their roots. In Kinfolk, a sharp dissection of the expatriate experience, Pearl S. Buck unfurls the story of a Chinese family living in New York. Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy, who spreads the notion of a pure and unchanging homeland. Under his influence, his four grown children decide to move to China, despite having spent...
6) The big wave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
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