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The Good Earth: LitPlan Teacher Pack
44,400 words, approx. 148 pages
 A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 10, Grade 8, Grade 9. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
The Good Earth: Puzzle Pack
39,600 words, approx. 132 pages
A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 10, Grade 8, Grade 9. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.
 
| Name: |
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck | | Birth Date: |
June 26, 1892 | | Death Date: |
1973 | | Place of Birth: |
Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
novelist, writer |
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 Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
678 words, approx. 2.3 pages
 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians. Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on Jun... summary from source:
Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
3553 words, approx. 11.8 pages
 Pearl S. Buck's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to become understandable to all readers. Buck's earlier works, most of... summary from source:
 Biography of Pearl S. Buck
3132 words, approx. 10.4 pages
"One pays the price for being prolific," bestselling author Pearl S. Buck once told an interviewer. "Heaven knows the literary Establishment can't forgive me for it, nor for the fact that my books sell." In retrospect, Buck's assessment of her own career...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Good Earth Summary
3,899 words, approx. 13 pagesThe Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Pearl S. Buck was born in China in 1892, the daughter of American missionary parents. After growing up in rural Chinese communities, Buck was profoundly affected by the difficult cycle of life experienced by China's... summary from source:
 The Good Earth Information
1,073 words, approx. 4 pages
<i>The Good Earth</i> is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes <i>Sons</i> (1932) and <i>A House Divided</i> (1935). The novel of family life in...
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 AP News Pearl S. Buck group claims manuscript
8/6/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pagesA literary mystery appeared to be solved this year when a long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck's novel "The Good Earth" surfaced in a sale tied to a former secretary's family.The auction house involved called the FBI, and U.S. officials proudly gave the typed manuscript... summary from source:
AP News Buck birthplace fights for manuscript
8/7/2007: 617 words, approx. 2 pagesBook lovers marveled in June when a Philadelphia auction house stumbled upon the long-lost manuscript of the 1931 Pearl S. Buck classic "The Good Earth."The daughter of Buck's longtime secretary said she had found the 400 typed papers in a suitcase in her cluttered basement....
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Dody Weston Thompson
1,982 words, approx. 7 pages
[Why was the response to Pearl Buck's early works so sweeping when they were so far from the literary vanguard?] Because they spoke to the poverty and uncertainty of the times. There hovered over them the certitudes of an inner-directed and Victorian spirit with a large and generous view of life, which could present values rather than seek them in a troubled world. In those Depression years The Good Earth's vivid and compassionate picture of the bare subsistence level of the Chinese masses fed... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Malcolm Cowley
718 words, approx. 2 pages
["The Good Earth" is] a parable of the life of man, in his relation to the soil that sustains him. The plot, deliberately commonplace, is given a sort of legendary weight and dignity by being placed in an unfamiliar setting. The biblical style is appropriate to the subject and the characters. If we define a masterpiece as a novel that is living, complete, sustained, but still somewhat limited in its scope as compared with the greatest works of fiction—if we define it as "Wutherin... summary from source:
Critical Essay by W. J. Stuckey
647 words, approx. 2 pages
[If The Good Earth] is not about America, it is "American" in the Pulitzer way. The Good Earth is the story of how Wang Lung rises from his lowly position as a poor farmer to lordship of a great house; how his rich sons are softened by the idleness to which they are bred; and how the house of Wang will sink back into the poverty from which it arose, now that the great principle of honest toil has been forsaken. Thus, despite its Chinese setting, The Good Earth is another ethical-moral American...
Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 96%Is Wang Lung a Good Man?
1,439 words, approx. 5 pages
In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck portrayed Wang Lung as a reflection of one of many Chinese men during that period of change, who considers land as everything needed to sustain lives. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 90%Immorality Vs. Humanity
1,399 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay refers to the book "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck and describes how the character of Wang Lung was a good man even though he conducted some horrible things. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 92%The Good Earth
1,351 words, approx. 5 pages
Essay shows what the work "The Good Earth" reveals about the social, economic, or psychological operations of a patriarchy.
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