Hardcover Fiction

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

The indolent offspring of two famous entertainers use their limited talents to maintain the fantasy world they have created.

by Samuel Shellabarger · Little, Brown and Co

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 Elizabeth Goudge · Grosset and Dunlap

A collection of the author's short stories and selections from her novels.

by Joyce Cary · Harper and Brothers

The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its principal character, Gulley Gimson, is an impoverished painter who scorns conventional good behavior. He may be a bad citizen, but he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation for its sake. Such is his contempt for orthodox mores, he takes a delight in cocking a snook at them. For him there is only one morality: to be a painter.

by Sholem Asch · Putnam

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 Mary Lasswell · Houghton Mifflin

Flat broke at the end of their stay in New York City, Mrs. Feeley, Mrs. Rasmussen, and Miss Tinkham can only make it as far as New Jersey on their voyage back home. When they stop by a local bar for something to lift their spirits, they find it in disrepair and the owner in none too better shape himself. As desperate as they are to make it back to San Diego, it's just not in their nature to leave the poor guy there. And if they're going to lend a helping hand, they might as well tidy up, serve a few beers, and see about breathing a little life into the joint—not that it does any harm to have a place to stay until they can find a way to get to the West Coast. Pull up a stool, crack open a cold one, and crack a smile with the third, uplifting and uproarious title from Mary Lasswell to feature her quick-witted altruists.

by Gwen Bristow · Ty Crowell Co

Sheltered girl from the East makes the dangerous journey from Santa Fe to Los Angeles in pre-Gold Rush days and learns value of loyal friends.

by Frederick Buechner · Alfred A. Knopf

by Paul Bowles · New Directions

Three works by America's great writer-in-exile are gathered in this annotatedcollector's edition, the companion to "Collected Stories and Later Writings."

by Ned Calmer · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Nancy Wilson Ross · Random House

New York psychiatrist helps father recover from nervous breakdown.

by Cleveland Amory · Harper and Brothers

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 Mabel Seeley · Doubleday Doran

Cathy Kingman's chic cousin Sylvia inherits the estate Cathy feels should have been rightfully hers. Worse, Sylvia callously breaks up Cathy's romance. When Sylvia gets murdered, Cathy is the prime suspect and to prove her innocence, Cathy must find the murderer. But, as she seeks, she discovers that she is also hunted, an it is a question of time whether she will find the murderer or be the next victim.