The Good Earth The Good Earth The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes "Sons" (1932) and "A House Divided" (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and
Classic Chinese Novels banned for most of its existence. Despite this, many if not most scholars and writers, including Lu Xun, place it among the top Chinese novels. For critical studies specific to the individual novels, see their separate articles. Classic Chinese Novels In sinology, the Classic Chinese Novels are two sets of the four or six best-known traditional Chinese novels. The Four Classic Novels include "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin" and "Dream of the Red Chamber", and the Six Classic Novels add "The Unofficial History of the Scholars" and "The Plum in the Golden Vase" to