Hardcover Fiction

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown

by Lloyd C. Douglas · Houghton Mifflin

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner Inc

by F. Van Wyck Mason · Doubleday

by Paul I. Wellman · Doubleday

by Tom Lea · Little, Brown. & Company

Action and glory of a matador, the idol of the bull ring. This is the story of Luis Bello, "The Swordsman of Guerreras", the greatest matador in Mexico, who is at the top of his profession, with everything that comes with it, money, a mistress, family and friends, bravado, the crowds are infatuated with him. But one day fear changes everything, he suddenly feels a fear that previously he had not felt in the invincibility that comes with healthy-macho-youth. His best friend and manager, Raul Fuentes, is killed in a car crash along with Luis's mistress, Linda de Calderon, after Linda and Raul had spent a romantic weekend together. This betrayal shakes Luis's beliefs about what has been real and what is real now. Now Luis must deal with these new-found feelings while at the same time facing the most feared bulls in all of Mexico, "the brave bulls". In his first fight after the auto accident he is gored by a bull because of the doubt and guilt that has come into the ring with him. In addition, while under the influence of Tequila, and some pressure from ring promoter Eladio Gomez, he agreed to let his younger brother Pepe fight these top bulls with him. Luis must now examine his life to find out where the courage comes from and if he can get it back.

by Norman Mailer · Random House

by Frances Gaither · Macmillan

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 Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday

by John Horne Burns · Harper

Life in a private school with the two newest faculty members, an ex-WAC and a disfigured infantry officer.

by Sinclair Lewis · Random House

by Alfred Hayes · Harper

Affair in Italy between American soldier and Roman girl.

by Elizabeth Bowen · Knopf

by Lajos Zilaby · Prentice Hall

by Joyce Cary · Grosset and Dunlap

Two generations of a well-to-do English country family.