by
Alice Tisdale Hobart
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1933
Oil for the Lamps of China (1934) was a best-selling novel when it was first published, just a few years after Pearl Buck’s *The Good Earth *(1931). The hero of the story is a keen, young American businessman who wants to bring “light” and progress to China in the form of oil and oil lamps,...