Hardcover Fiction

by John Steinbeck · Viking Press

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father.

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 Edna Ferber · Doubleday

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 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 Howard Spring · Harper and Brothers

by Giovannino Guareschi · Amereon Ltd

by Barnaby Conrad · Houghton Mifflin

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin

Activities of the 25th year of a Presbyterian country preacher and his family.

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

by Joyce Cary · Harper

by Angus Wilson · Viking Press

by Evelyn Waugh · Little, Brown and Company

The first volume of Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy about war, religion, andpolitics.

by Angela Mackail Thirkell · Alfred A. Knopf

by Jan de Hartog · Harper and Brothers

Dutch seaman becomes captain of British tugboat in World War.

by H.F.M. Prescott · Macmillan