Hardcover Fiction

by Sinclair Lewis · Doubleday, Doran

Daughter, inclined towards communism, and hard drinking brother want mother and father to continue to support them.

by A. J. Cronin · Little, Brown

by Kenneth Roberts · Doubleday, Doran

by Louis Bromfield · Harper

by Robert Nathan · Knopf

Story of the close comradeship between a man and his naive fifteen-year-old granddaughter

by Margery Sharp · Little, Brown

In 1930s France, a free-spirited mother undertakes to derail her very proper daughter's engagement Julia Packett has barely laid eyes on her daughter, Susan, since leaving her with her well-heeled in-laws following the loss of her husband in World War I. Now thirty-seven, Julia's lack of prospects hasn't dimmed her spirit or her appetite for life. But when Susan asks her to come to France for the summer to persuade her grandmother to allow her to marry, she sets sail with the noblest intentions of acting the paragon of motherhood. At her mother-in-law's vacation villa in Haute Savoie, however, Julia sees that her priggish but lovely daughter is completely mismatched with a man much more suited to herself: a charming, clever playboy. The arrival of Susan's legal guardian, the distinguished Sir William Waring, further complicates the situation. Soon Julia's efforts to pass herself off as a lady and secure her daughter's happiness spin out of control, leading to romantic entanglements and madcap adventures that will challenge preconceived notions about the ultimate compatibility of any two people who fall in love.

by James M. Cain · Knopf

by Rex Warner · Knopf