Hardcover Fiction

by James Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

Roman.

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday

Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

The golden hawk is a pulsating novel of adventure, revenge and exotic love in the West Indies of the seventeenth century, when the might of imperial Spain was making its last great stand to retain its conquests in the New World. A woman called Fancy is the author's first novel to have a female protagonist. Set in Augusta, Georgia, the novel covers the period from 1880 to 1894 and shows the rise of the heroine, a beautiful South Carolina woman, from poverty to prominence among Augusta's aristocrats.

by Francis Cardinal Spellman · Charles Scribner's Sons

A baby, left in a cathedral, is befriended by a veteran and becomes a musician.

by F. Van Wyck Mason · Lippincott

by Irwin Shaw · Random House

Director of radio program is asked to fire five characters because Fascists suspect them of Communism.

by Lion Feuchtwanger · Viking Press

by Lillian Budd · J. B. Lippincott

by James Street · Doubleday

by Reginald Arkell · Harcourt, Brace and Company

by Harnett T. Kane and Victor Leclerc · Julian Messner Inc

Scandalous love affair of an American minister's daughter and the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia in the 1870's and 1880's.

by J.B. Priestley · Harper and Brothers

by J.D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company,

'If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.' The first of J. D. Salinger's four books to be published, The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most widely read and beloved of all contemporary American novels. 'The handbook of the adolescent heart' The New Yorker

by Pierre La Mure · Random House

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

Novel about the sons of missionaries, which sweeps from China to America and England and from the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 to the critical struggles of 1950.