Hardcover Fiction

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 Marcia Davenport · Scribner

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner Inc

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday

by James Hilton · Little, Brown

Story of an American who, as a scientist and a man, faces some of the greatest problems of his time.

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

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 Willard Motley · Appleton-Century

by Samuel Shellanbarger · Little, Brown

by Peter Bourne · Putnam

by John Steinbeck · Viking Press

Based on a Mexican folktale, this is the story of a great pearl found by a poor fisherman, the sorrow it brought to his family, and how it was lost again.

by Guy McCrone · Farrar, Straus

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Macmillan

"Life of a young Episcopal priest in a city parish." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

by Thomas W. Duncan · Lippincott

by Kathryn Forbes · Harcourt Brace and Company

by Neil H. Swanson · Doubleday

HISTORICAL NOVEL SET IN MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, DELAWARE AND OTHER COLONIES IN 1763.