The film, directed by Sidney Franklin, starred Paul Muni as Wang Lung. The Good Earth was adapted for the stage in 1932, and a film version was released in 1937. The story concerns Wang Lung, a pre-revolutionary farmer who works his fingers to the bone to become successful with the help of his arranged-marriage wife O-Lan, only to drift away from his roots when he does achieve success. By contrast, the book's unflinching depiction of some of the grimmer aspects of life in China have made it less than popular there. Though Buck was an American, she spent most of her early life in China, and The Good Earth is credited with doing much to humanise and demythologise China and Chinese people to Americans. It is the first, and by far the best-known, book in a trilogy which continues in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and topped the best-seller lists in the United States for 19.
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