Hardcover Fiction

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 Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

Roman.

by James A. Michener · Random House

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 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 Irwin Shaw · Random House

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

by Paul I. Wellman · Doubleday and Company, Inc

by F. Van Wyck Mason · Lippincott

by Francis Cardinal Spellman · Charles Scribner's Sons

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

by Lion Feuchtwanger · Viking Press

by James Street · Doubleday

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 Lillian Budd · J. B. Lippincott

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf

Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.

by Reginald Arkell · Harcourt, Brace and Company

by Carlo Levi · Farrar, Straus and Young

The Watch, first published in 1950, is a portrait of Rome and Italy in the dopoguerra - the period after the war - when the heroism and sacrifice of the partisan war against the Germans ran head-on into a rockwall of conservative reaction. The year is 1948, the main character works for a newspaper in Rome, his friends and family and partisan comrades are all trying to get by and make do. The watch of the title was given to the hero by his father; it's broken, he thinks of fixing it, then wonders if it would be cheaper to buy a new, modern watch. Around him people are forever talking, looking for jobs, wasting time in cafes, grumbling about big business, the church, conservative politicians. The hero is summoned to Naples to visit the sickbed of a favorite uncle. The trip south is dangerous and difficult, along ruined roads through country infested by bandits. The passengers are crowded, they complain and tell stories, all have suffered, none has given up hope.