A classie of our time… Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family. even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought. pestilence and revo-lution. Through this one Chinese peasant and his children, Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passions, its persistent ambitions and its re-wards. Her brilliant novel beloved by mil. lions of readers throughout the world is a universal tale of the destiny of men.