TheBestseller
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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of October 4, 1937

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THE CITADEL
A. J. Cronin
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THE CITADEL

by A. J. Cronin · Little, Brown

25 wks at #1 · 3 on list
5
NEW
YOUNG HENRY OF NAVARRE
Heinrich Mann
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YOUNG HENRY OF NAVARRE

by Heinrich Mann · Knopf

1 wks on list

Young Henry of Navarre traces the life of Henry IV from the King's idyllic childhood in the mountain villages of the Pyrenees to his ascendance to the throne of France. Heinrich Mann's most acclaimed work is a spectacular epic that recounts the wars, political machinations, rival religious sects, and backstage plots that marked the birth of the French Republic.

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JOHN CORNELIIUS
Hugh Walpole

JOHN CORNELIIUS

by Hugh Walpole · Doubleday, Doran

Writer passionately devotes his life to creative work in which no one can see merit.

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