# Huge successes then, completely forgotten now

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**Created:** [August 5, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315 "2010-08-05T19:32:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 6, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huge-successes-then-completely-forgotten-now/549315/107 "2010-08-06T23:30:17Z")

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> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#):
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> > [@Sampiro](#):
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> > You can still find _The Good Earth_ in most bookstores, but that’s it, and most people aren’t even aware TGE is part one of a trilogy as you never see the sequels in bookstores.
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> Aah, being in the UK I thought she had disappeared completely.

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](http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/) and most of them were imports, though offhand I believe _The Good Earth_ is still in print here (Penguin Modern Classics?).

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