One character in this novel dies insisting that "beauty will not bear a man sons.
One character in this novel dies insisting that "beauty will not bear a man sons." This work's protagonist marries a woman whose servant is Cuckoo, but stops loving the concubine Lotus after she insults his mentally retarded daughter. While in the city, protagonist gains great wealth by looting a wealthy man's house, enabling him to escape from life as a (*) rickshaw-puller and buy land from the House of Hwang, which had formerly employed his wife. Ending with the protagonist's sons' decision to split up his land is, for ten points, what novel about Chinese farmer Wang Lang and his dutiful wife O-Lan, a work of Pearl Buck?
One character in this novel dies insisting that "beauty will not bear a man sons.
The {Good Earth}