#1 – The Good Earth
Wang Lung is a poor farmer whose marriage to O-lan, a former slave from a wealthy household, gives him a partner of unusual endurance and practical intelligence. Together they work the fields, raise children and slowly buy land from the declining House of Hwang. Famine eventually…
#2 – Sons
As Wang Lung approaches death, his three sons prepare to divide the estate he created from the soil. The eldest has become an idle landlord concerned with rank and appearances, the second is a calculating merchant and moneylender, and the youngest rejects both paths to build…
#3 – A House Divided
Wang Yuan grows up under the authority of Wang the Tiger, the soldier who turned himself into a powerful general. Uncomfortable with the military future chosen for him, Yuan moves among students and revolutionaries before leaving China to study agriculture in the United States. Distance gives…