TheBestseller
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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 3, 1936

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EYEGLASS IN GAZA
Aldous Huxley
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THE MAGNIFICENT HOAX
E. Phillips Oppenheim
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THE MAGNIFICENT HOAX

by E. Phillips Oppenheim · Little, Brown

2 wks on list

It is difficult to grasp the degree of popularity that Oppenheimer enjoyed as a writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Much of the action of this novel takes place in two very different nightclubs. The first is a Public House run by Fred Miller in the East End of London. Second, the fabulous private club and dining establishment, run by the smooth and well-connected Ordino.

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NEW
SPARKENBROKE
Charles Morgan
Cover of SPARKENBROKE

SPARKENBROKE

by Charles Morgan · Macmillan

15 wks on list

The story of Piers Tenniel, Lord Sparkenbroke, poet and man of letters, and his short, extraordinarily intense life and great love.

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