Hardcover Fiction

by John O'Hara · Random House

'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France to Proust' The New York Times When the beautiful, imperious and moneyed Grace Caldwell Tate wants something she goes after it, men included. Her affair scandalises Pennsylvania's elite and she must face the costs to her marriage and the man she really loves. A bestseller on publication in 1949, A Rage to Live is a candid tale of idealists and libertines, tradesmen and crusaders, men of violence and goodwill, and women of fierce strength and tenderness.

by Mika Waltari · Putnam

Set in Egypt, more than a thousand years before Christ, it encompasses all of the then-known world. It is told by Sinhue, physician to the Pharaoh Akhenaton, and is the story of his life. Through his eyes are seen innumerable characters, fully drawn and covering the whole panorama of the ancient world.

by Taylor Caldwell · Scribner

by Marguerite Steen · Doubleday

Matt Flood's grandson goes to the Gold Coast and is in the Ashanti War.

by Edward Streeter · Simon & Schuster

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown

by George Orwell · Harcourt, Brace

by Theodore Bonnet · Doubleday

by Lloyd C. Douglas · Houghton Mifflin

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Helen MacInnes · Little, Brown

by Nelson Algren · Doubleday

A novel about a young drug addict and his daily encounters as he pursues his eternal quest for means to support his habit.

by Eudora W elty · Harcourt, Brace

First published in 1949, THE GOLDEN APPLES is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana, Mississippi. There's Snowdie, who has to bring up her twin boys alone after her husband, King Maclain, disappears one day, discarding his hat on the banks of the Big Black. There's Loch Morrison, convalescing with malaria, who watches from his bedroom window as wayward Virgie Rainey meets a sailor in the vacant house opposite. Meanwhile, Miss Eckhart the piano teacher, grieving the loss of her most promising pupil, tries her hand at arson. Eudora Welty has a fine ear for dialogue and describes each of the characters in incisive, haunting prose. '...in the South,' she says, 'everybody stays busy talking all the time - they're not sorry for you to overhear their tales'. Welty deftly picks up their stories to create an unflinching potrait of everyday life in the American South and offers a deeply moving look at human nature.

by George Howe · Viking Press

by John Brooks · Harper and Brothers

by Angela Thirkell · Knopf