Huge successes then, completely forgotten now

Though here in the UK is surely precisely where Pearl S. Buck is currently going through the once-in-a-generation temporary blip/re-assessment in reputation, courtesy of the new Hilary Spurling biography of her. Duly reviewed in all the broadsheets earlier this year, etc.

I even saw a London bookshop do a special in-store display of about a dozen of her titles in the last couple of months. Granted it was a branch of Daunt’s and most of them were imports, though offhand I believe The Good Earth is still in print here (Penguin Modern Classics?).