Her father was away from home most of the time, in search of new Christian converts, and her mother spent her time raising her children and ministering to the local Chinese women in a small dispensary that she had established. The family lived in Zhenjiang, in Jiangsu province, and then in a small city lying at the junction of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal. Her birth was at the end of their furlough in the United States and when Pearl was three months old, the family returned to China and it was there that the author would spend the majority of the first forty years of her life. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.Born in 1892, Pearl Sydenstricker was the fourth of seven children to Southern Presbyterian missionaries Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker.
In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. Though nearly eighty years have passed since this novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. Signed and inscribed examples of the first edition in the original dust jacket are rare. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box.
Near fine in the original dust jacket with some tape repairs to the verso. It is interesting to note that Buck knew the first issue points and makes note of it. Buck also underlined the error “flees” on page 100, and marked it with an arrow on the left margin. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Pearl Buck on the half-title page.
Octavo, original brown cloth, illustrated endpapers. $20,000.00 Item Number: 80122įirst edition, first issue with “flees” for “fleas” on page 100, line 17 of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and masterpiece.
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