“Each time that he repeated this word he thrust his bare dark arm down into the wet earth and planted a sturdy seedling.”
Buck’s novel of China which tells the story of the farmer Ling Tan, and his wife and sons and daughters. The novel begins just before the Japanese invasion in 1937, outside and inside the walls of Nanking, covering vividly the fall and rape of the city, and the life of the people afterward under the heels of a bestial master who rules but cannot conquer.
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Title: Dragon Seed
Edition: First Edition, first printing
Published: New York: The John Day Company, 1942
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 378p
Condition: Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, chipping, and rubbing to surfaces—in new protector. Boards and spine mostly clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends—gilt faded. Binding solid and square. Pages tanned. Small areas of foxing on end-papers.
Comments: Solid copy
