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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of September 12, 1938

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THE YEARLING
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cover of THE YEARLING

THE YEARLING

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · Scribner

12 wks at #1 · 23 on list

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

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THE WORLD IS MINE
William Blake

THE WORLD IS MINE

by William Blake · Simon & Schuster

The story of Spaniard Cristobal Pinzon, whose "adventurous life reproduces in miniature the whole story of modern finance, modern war, and modern revolution, from 1892 to the present day (1937). The book is a combination of realism and melodrama, rooted in an encyclopedic knowledge of finance and contemporary history." The main character is involved in finance and conflict in several European countries as he attempts to right perceived wrongs done to him and others.

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