ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932 and was influential in Buck’s winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

Detailed explanation-2: -Buck, née Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, pseudonym John Sedges, (born June 26, 1892, Hillsboro, West Virginia, U.S.-died March 6, 1973, Danby, Vermont), American author noted for her novels of life in China. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a prosperous landowner. He is aided immeasurably by his equally humble wife, O-Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to the land, to duty, and to survival.

Detailed explanation-4: -Pearl Buck’s first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published in 1930. It was followed by the trilogy of The Good Earth (1931), Sons (1932), and A House Divided (1935), which is a saga about the Wang family. These books gave Buck her major literary breakthrough.