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 John Marquand · Little, Brown

by Graham Greene · Viking Press

Account of a hate bred of a passion that ultimately lost out to God.

by Sholem Asch · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Irving Stone · Doubleday

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 Mika Waltari · G. P. Putnam's Sons

by Nancy Mitford · Random House

The love and marriage of a beautiful Englishwoman and a glamorous French marquis.

by Paul I. Wellman · Doubleday and Company, Inc

by Angela Thirkell · Alfred A. Knopf

by John O'Hara · Random House

Story of a group of people snowbound in a hotel on the night of it reopening.

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 Robert Wilder · Van Rees Press

Down South romance, wherein an ex G.I. - identity concealed - gets acquainted with his dead buddy's family.