Hardcover Fiction

by Lloyd C. Douglas · Houghton Mifflin

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner Inc

by Irwin Shaw · Random House

Traces three young men, two Americans and one German, from 1938 to 1945 after they meet as soldiers in a Bavarian forest in World War II.

by Carl Sandburg · Harcourt, Brace

by Norman Mailer · Random House

by Esther Forbes · Houghton Mifflin

by W. Somerset Maugham · Doubleday

Crippled sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when Catalina seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. The last of Maugham's novels, Catalina is a romantic celebration of Spain and a delightfully mischievous satire on absolutism.

by Inglis Clark Fletcher · Bobbs-Merrill

by Thomas Mann · Knopf

In a story that symbolizes Germany's fall into Nazism, a talented German musician, Adrian, sells his soul to the devil in exchange for recognition as the greatest living composer.

by Anya Seton · Houghton Mifflin

by Jan Westcott · Crown

by Alice Tisdale Hobart · Bobbs-Merrill

Russian refugee bride, and the questions of human rights and water divide a family.

by Dodie Smith · Little, Brown

Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas, and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time. 'I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers' Joanna Trollope **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

by Alan Paton · Scribner

Two fathers come to terms with personal loss and the emotional scars inflicted on South Africa during the era of apartheid.

by Betty Smith · Harper

by Elswyth Thane · Duell, Sloan & Pearce