Hardcover Fiction

by Irving Stone · Doubleday

A sympathetic portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln. The author pictures her marriage to Abraham Lincoln as a great love story.

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

by Morton Thompson · Charles Scribner's Sons

by Anya Seton · Houghton Mifflin

This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history-- that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets-- Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II-- who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king's son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.

by Ernest Kellogg Gann · W. Sloane Associates

by Mac Hyman · Random House, Inc

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner, Inc

Romance, murder, and intrigue in London.

by John Steinbeck · Viking Press

by Igor Gouzenko · W.W. Norton and Company

by William Faulkner · Random House

by Frans G. Bengtsson · Alfred A. Knopf

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 Taylor Caldwell · McGraw Hill

by Mika Waltari · Putnam

Set in Egypt, more than a thousand years before Christ, it encompasses all of the then-known world. It is told by Sinhue, physician to the Pharaoh Akhenaton, and is the story of his life. Through his eyes are seen innumerable characters, fully drawn and covering the whole panorama of the ancient world.

by Andre Soubiran · G. P. Putnam's Sons

by Kenneth Dodson · Little, Brown and Company

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