Hardcover Fiction

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday

by Ben Ames Williams · Houghton Mifflin

First published in 1947, this bestselling historical novel is cherished and remembered as one of the finest retellings of the Civil War saga—America's own War and Peace. In the first hard pinch of the Civil War, five siblings of an established Confederate Virginia family learn that their father is the grandfather of Abraham Lincoln. The family's story, and the story of their descendants, is presented in this tale that includes both soldiers and civilians—complete with their boasting, ambition, and arrogance, but also their patience, valor, and shrewdness. The grandnephew of General James Longstreet, the author brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in history, and details war as it really is—a disease from which, win or lose, no nation ever completely recovers.

by Samuel Shellanbarger · Little, Brown

by Lion Feuchtwanger · Viking Press

Historical novel about Benjamin Franklin's trip to France to gain arms and aid from French monarchs Lious XVI and Antoinette.

by Thomas W. Duncan · Lippincott

by Peter Bourne · Putnam

by Irving Stone · Doubleday

by Willard Motley · Appleton-Century

by Laura Z. Hobson · Simon & Schuster

by Ludwig Bemelmans · Viking Press

by Gerald Warner Brace · W.W. Norton and Company

by Mabel Seeley · Doubleday

by Frederic Wakeman · Rinehart & Company

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Scott O'Dell · Bobbs-Merrill

by Rubylea Hall · Duell, Sloan & Pearce

Plantation life in Florida in the 1830s and 1840s.