The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

by Pearl S. Buck

the reluctant sun of late autumn that will not let go the warmth of summer until the cold of the coming winter forces it.

more than one woman under one roof is not for peace.

For seven days he thought of nothing but his land, and he was healed of his troubles and his fears, and he said to himself calmly,

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

There was always the land.”

But still one thing remained to him and it was his love for his land.