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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of May 13, 1935

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OF TIME AND THE RIVER
Thomas Wolfe
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OF TIME AND THE RIVER

by Thomas Wolfe · Scribner

7 wks at #1 · 9 on list

The book chronicles the maturing of Wolfe's autobiographical character, Eugene Gant, in his desperate search for fulfillment, making his way from small-town North Carolina to the wider world of Harvard University, New York City, and Europe.

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NATIONAL VELVET
Enid Bagnold
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NATIONAL VELVET

by Enid Bagnold · Morrow

2 wks on list
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A FEW FOOLISH ONES
Gladys Hasty Carroll
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A FEW FOOLISH ONES

by Gladys Hasty Carroll · Macmillan

1 wks on list

Treats of the lives of intermarrying Maine farmers from the 1870's to the 1930's.

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NOW IN NOVEMBER
Josephine Johnson
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NOW IN NOVEMBER

by Josephine Johnson · Simon & Schuster

1 wks on list

"One tragic year on a Missouri farm." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.