Hardcover Fiction

by Morton Thompson · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

by Taylor Caldwell · McGraw Hill

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

Romance, murder, and intrigue in London.

by John Steinbeck · Viking Press

by Norah Lofts · Doubleday

The house was built in the Old Queen's time - built for an Elizabethan pirate who was knighted for the plunder he brought home. It survived many eras, many reigns - it saw the passing of Cromwell and the Civil War. It became rich with an Indian Nabob and poor with a twentieth century innkeeper. It was wars, and lovers, and death. Children were born there, both heirs and bastards. It had ghosts and legends and a history that grew stranger with every generation. The house was Merravay - and its story stretched over four hundred years...

by Harriette Arnow · Macmillan

Gertie Nevels and her husband Clovis are untouched by city life until the outbreak of World War II. They are forced to abandon their Kentucky mountain home and travel to Detroit so that Clovis can participate in the war effort by repairing heavy machinery. Gertie's survival techniques are useless in an urban milieu. In spite of the debasing effect of city life, Gertie maintains her faith in her fellow beings.

by Erich Maria Remarque · Harcourt, Brace and Company

Novel of World War II in which the hero fights the Russians, returns home and is married, goes back to the battlefield and is killed.

by Kenneth Dodson · Little, Brown and Company

Novelized history of World War 2 island-hopping aboard an attack transport.

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday and Co., Inc

by Edward Streeter · Harper and Brothers

Humorous description of a family's vacation on a New England island.

by Randall Jarrell · Alfred A. Knopf

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire -- and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker's razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College -- mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself.

by Christopher Isherwood · Random House

Flashbacks of the life of a sensitive, immature young man.

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Peter De Vries · Little, Brown and Company

The life and somewhat disreputable loves of a cartoonist, comically narrated by his friend, an art editor.

by William March · Dodd, Mead