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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of August 31, 1936

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EYEGLASS IN GAZA
Aldous Huxley
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THE AMERICAN FLAGGS
Kathleen Norris
Cover of THE AMERICAN FLAGGS

THE AMERICAN FLAGGS

by Kathleen Norris · Doubleday, Doran

1 wks on list

"A bride's struggle to win acceptance in an old San Francisco family." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

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THE MAN FROM THE NORLANDS
John Buchan

THE MAN FROM THE NORLANDS

by John Buchan · Houghton Mifflin

2 wks on list

The Island of Sheep (1936) is John Buchan's last thriller, featuring the return of Richard Hannay, the hero of 'The Thirty-Nine Steps', 'Greenmantle', 'Mr Standfast 'and 'The Three Hostages' , from a comfortable retirement. Hannay redeems his promise to protect the son of an old acquaintance from a sinister conspiracy, and the action moves rapidly from England through the Scottish Borders to the Island of Sheep in the remote Norlands, where Hannay and his friends turn at last to confront their enemy

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