The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize
for the Novel in 1932. The best selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, it
was an influential factor in Buck winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the
first book in a trilogy that includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
The novel of family life in a Chinese village before the 1949 Revolution was a best-seller
in both 1931 and 1932 and has been a steady favorite ever since. In 2004, the book was
returned to the best seller list when chosen by the television host Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's
Book Club. The novel helped prepare Americans of the 1930s to consider Chinese as allies in
the coming war with Japan.
A Broadway stage adaptation was produced by the Theatre Guild in 1932, written by the father
and son playwriting team of Owen and Donald Davis, but it was poorly received by the critics,
and ran only 56 performances. However, the 1937 film, The Good Earth, which was based on the
stage version, was more successful.
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