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 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 James Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

Roman.

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 Paul I. Wellman · Doubleday and Company, Inc

by Thomas Mann · Alfred A. Knopf

Retelling of a medieval legend "of the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the Pope Gregory."

by William Styron · Bobbs-Merrill

William Styron traces the betrayals and infidelities--the heritage of spite and endlessly disappointed love--that afflict the members of a Southern family and that culminate in the suicide of the beautiful Peyton Loftis.

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Louis Bromfield · Harper and Brothers

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday

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 James Street · Doubleday

by F. Van Wyck Mason · Lippincott

by Lillian Budd · J. B. 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 Margaret Campbell Barnes · Macrae-Smith