The Good Earth cannot remember what I did with that manuscript." After Buck died in 1973, her heirs reported it stolen. It finally turned up at Freeman's Auctioneers & Appraisers in Philadelphia around 2007 when it was brought in for consignment. The FBI were notified and it was handed over by the consignor. 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
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