Hardcover Fiction

by Grace Metalious · Simon & Schuster

by Meyer Levin · Simon & Schuster

Ambassador Theatre, Michael Myerberg presents "Compulsion," dramatization by (producer's version) Meyer Levin, production staged by Alex Segal, with Roddy McDowall, Dean Stockwell, Howard Da Silva, Michael Constantine, settings by Peter Larkin, costumes by John Boxer, lighting by Charles Elson, co-producer Len S. Gruenberg

by Rebecca West · Viking Press

The lives of the talented Aubrey children have long been clouded by their father's genius for instability, but his new job in the London suburbs promises, for a time at least, reprieve from scandal and the threat of ruin. Mrs. Aubrey, a former concert pianist, struggles to keep the family afloat, but then she is something of a high-strung eccentric herself, as is all too clear to her daughter Rose, through whose loving but sometimes cruel eyes events are seen. Still, living on the edge holds the promise of the unexpected, and the Aubreys, who encounter furious poltergeists, turn up hidden masterpieces, and come to the aid of a murderess, will find that they have adventure to spare. In The Fountain Overflows... Rebecca West transmuted her own volatile childhood into enduring art. This is an unvarnished but affectionate picture of an extraordinary family, in which a remarkable stylist and powerful intelligence surveys the elusive boundaries of childhood and adulthood, freedom and dependency, the ordinary and the occult. --Amazon.com.

by Richard Powell · Charles Scribner's Sons

by William Brinkley · Random House

by Nicholas Monsarrat · William Sloane Associates

Five hundred miles off southwest Africa lies the island of Pharamaul. In dense jungle live the notorious Maula tribe, kept under surveillance by a solitary District Officer and his young wife. When Chief-designate, Dinamaula, returns England with a spirited desire to speed the development of his people, political crisis erupts.

by Frances Parkinson Keyes · Julian Messner Inc

by John P. Marquand · Little, Brown and Co

"A suspense story of today's cloak and dagger boys, as Jack Rhyce is sent out to Tokyo to explore the sources of the unrest reported by the local agent as sparked by a mystery man, "Big Ben". Jack finds himself paired with a girl, Ruth Bogard, with whom he reluctantly falls in love. This complicates their mission and a number of missteps result, as they stop off in Hawaii, think they have identified "Big Ben" as an airline employee who whistles tunes from The Red Mill and knows far too much about their doings. Once in Tokyo they find their goal blocked by the Japanese secret service, with our old friend Mr. Moto in control."--Goodreads

by Mika Waltari · G. P. Putnam's Sons

by Patrick Dennis · Vanguard Press

by Ernest Gann · William Sloane Associates

by Gerald Green · Charles Scribner's Sons

A doctor, living in the Brooklyn slums, conducts a one-man campaign against hoodlums.

by Frank Norris · Harper and Brothers

Story of an American architect who builds a skyscraper in St. Louis.

by Edwin O'Connor · Little, Brown and Co

by Marrijane and Joseph Hayes · Random House

by Mary Renault · Pantheon Books, Inc