THE GOOD EARTH TRILOGY Pearl S. Buck
The Good Earth
Sons
A House Divided
Overview:
FROM THE DAY of its publication in 1931, The Good Earth has been one of the most popular novels of the twentieth century. Sales figures and prizes tell part of the story. Several million copies of the book have been sold in more than sixty countries, including the United States. The book won the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells medal for fiction. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid the then-record sum of $50,000 for movie rights. The film version of the novel, released in 1937, was seen by over twenty million people around the world. One of the movie's stars, Luise Rainer, won an Academy Award for best actress.
The influence of The Good Earth has perhaps proven even more remarkable than its popularity. For at least thirty years, well into the 1960s, Pearl Buck's novel played a greater role in shaping Western attitudes toward China than any other book. In The Good Earth, for the first time, American and European readers encountered Chinese characters who thought and behaved like ordinary, believable human beings rather than cartoon "Orientals."
This is the main achievement of Buck's novel, and the source of its lasting significance. Prior to The Good Earth, Westerners had reduced Asian people to a cluster of simplified stereotypes, most of them insulting: the Chinese were dishonest, cruel, inscrutable; they were addicted to opium and delighted in torture; their society was backward and decadent.
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