by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday and Company, Inc
"This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the ... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper"--Fiction catalog.
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 Ernest Hemingway · Charles Scribner's Sons
Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved and popular novel ever, with millions of copies sold—now featuring early drafts and supplementary material as well as a personal foreword by the only living son of the author, Patrick Hemingway, and an introduction by the author’s grandson Seán Hemingway. The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.
by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin
Activities of the 25th year of a Presbyterian country preacher and his family.
by Jan de Hartog · Harper and Brothers
Dutch seaman becomes captain of British tugboat in World War.
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 Gerald Warner Brace · W. W. Norton and Co
Set on a New England college campus, part of the story concerns the in-fighting and college politics within its English department; another is a love story between a new professor (Henry) and Lizzie, who is haunted by a terrible dark secret involving her child born out of wedlock. --Bomojaz at Amazon.com.
Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.
