Hardcover Fiction

by Hervey Allen · Farrar & Rinehart

by Robert Graves · Smith & Haas

Reconstructing grandeur, folly, & fantastic sensuality of Imperial Rome.

by Caroline Miller · Harper

This 1934 Pulitzer Prize winner tells the story of a pair of young newlyweds in antebellum rural Georgia. In 1934, Caroline Miller's novel Lamb in His Bosom won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It was the first novel by a Georgia author to win a Pulitzer, soon followed by Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind in 1937. In fact, Lamb was largely responsible for the discovery of Gone With the Wind; after reading Miller's novel, Macmillan editor Harold S. Latham sought other southern novels and authors, and found Margaret Mitchell. Caroline Miller was fascinated by the other Old South-not the romantic inhabitants of Gone With the Wind, but rather the poor people of the south Georgia backwoods, who never owned a slave or planned to fight a war. The story of Cean and Lonzo, a young couple who begin their married lives two decades before the Civil War, Lamb in His Bosom is a fascinating account of social customs and material realities among settlers of the Georgia frontier. At the same time, Lamb in His Bosom transcends regional history as Miller's quietly lyrical prose style pays poignant tribute to a woman's life lived close to nature-the nature outside her and the nature within.

by James Hilton · Little, Brown

by E. M. Delafield · Harper

by Stark Young · Scribner

Young's novel of war coming to the Natchez region of Mississippi has long been considered one of the best of Civil War novels. “If you would understand what was best in the Old South, its attitude toward life, you will find them here, glowing with that same vitality which was theirs in life.”-New York Times. Southern Classics Series.

by Maurice Walsh · Stokes

It is a story of the open road, with a typically sturdy Walsh hero, whose life had been wrecked through the malevolence of the "greatest devil on two feet in all Ireland." In search of this villain Rogan Stuart drifts about the land, following the "road to no- where," for he knows too, well that revenge will solve no problem or help to reconstruct his shattered hopes. And then he stumbles upon an adventure, one day meeting an attractive couple of vagabonds and finding himself on the spot when a murder is committed. --Sydney Morning Herald, June 22, 1934.

by Alice Tisdale Hobart · Bobbs, Merrill