The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
by sloanranger
With his father, Wang lived in a hovel,
star of this ground-breaking novel.
Couldn't have worked harder,
a plain Chinese farmer
and his wife, O-lan, quite docile.
Their fortunes waxed and they gained,
Wang bought land, time and again.
When starvation came,
no one was to blame -
went south, looked for work to claim.
Taking scrapes from the rich man's table,
they lived the timeless fable -
until revolution
provided solution,
and return to the land was enabled.
I promise you won't find it boring,
it shows China in all her glory.
An epic tale,
the people prevail,
I think you will like this story.
My love of the Earth from came from nature, but it was formalized by 2 books: The Good Earth and Gone With The Wind.
Pearl Buck was an incredible woman, as even a slight perusal of any biography of her will show. I was fortunate as a very young girl to be among a group of students that got to hear her speak. She was trying to raise money for her Amerasian Children's Group - children fathered by American soldiers and at that time unwanted by either the Asians or the Americans.
I wrote a very short story (a page & a paragraph), called 'Affirmation,' about this, posted here on WP.
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Literary Limericks
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