Hardcover Fiction

by George Santayana · Scribner

by Charles Nordloff and James Norman Hall · Little, Brown

A Polynesian escapes prison to return home during a raging storm.

by Rebecca West · Viking Press

"Isabelle, a wealthy American widow, arrives in France to restart her life and discovers she has her choice of eligible suitors. Torn between a placid liaison with a southerner and a tortuous affair with a Frenchman, Isabelle's plans suddenly take an unexpected turn that will ultimately lead her to a love that will force her to reconsider the implications of her affluent existence.

by Sinclair Lewis · Doubleday, Doran

A dark satire about the rise of a fascist American dictator.

by Elizabeth Bowen · Knopf

by Dorothy L. Sayers · Harcourt, Brace

When the dons of Harriet Vane's alma mater, the all-female Shrewsbury College, Oxford, invite her back to attend the annual Gaudy celebrations, the mood turns sour when someone begins a series of malicious acts. Who is responsible for the poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti, and wanton vandalism? Harriet asks her old friend Lord Peter Wimsey to investigate.