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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist who was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her novel “The Good Earth” was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. The novel dramatizes family life in a Chinese village before World War I. Wang Lung is a poor, hard-working farmer born and raised in a small village of Anhwei. He is the protagonist of the story and suffers hardships as he accumulates wealth and the outward signs of success. Buck (2012) wrote “Hunger makes thief of any man” in his book “The Good Earth”. This quotation from Chapter 15 is spoken by one of the villagers who knows of the looting of Wang Lung’s house. It comes
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