Hardcover Fiction

by A.J. Cronin · Little, Brown

by James Hilton · Little, Brown and Company

by Alan Paton · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Annemarie Selinko · William Morrow and Company

Eugénie Désirée Clary records two love affairs in her diary, one with Napoleon, who jilted her for Josephine, and a second with General Bernadotte, who married her.

by Ernest K. Gann · William Sloane Associates

by Ben Ames Williams · Houghton Miflin

by Samuel Shellabarger · Little, Brown and Co

by Harnett T. Kane · Doubleday

A biography of the wife of General Robert E. Lee who lived near Washington, D.C., and was considered one of the best hostesses of her day.

by Saul Bellow · Viking Press

by Leon Uris · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Paul Wellman · Doubleday

Novel of 6th-century Constantinople, with the Empress Theodora as the scheming heroine.

by Lloyd C. Douglas · Houghton Mifflin

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Elizabeth Goudge · Coward-McCann

by Charles Bracelen Flood · Houghton Mifflin

by James Jones · Charles Scribner's Sons

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