Wang-Lung, a simple peasant farmer takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped. For grades 5-6.

In Korean and English. Translation of: The good earth. Reprint. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novel/fiction, 1932.