When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family\'s survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan\'s desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family\'s money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature. Σελίδες: 368, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0114, Διαστάσεις: 13x13cm