 The interior melds the two worlds that so greatly shaped the life of this renowned author.In the large library, two Pennsylvania jugs serve as lamp bases upon a beautifully hand carved Chinese hardwood desk, at which Buck wrote her breakthrough novel "The Good Earth".Buck filled her home with interesting works of original art by Chen Chi and Freeman Elliot , iron works of art produced by exiled artisans in China, Peking Fetti carpets that survived revolutions in China, and some of her own sculptures.