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Best Sellers

Hardcover Fiction

Week of November 8, 1959

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ADVISE AND CONSENT
Allen Drury
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ADVISE AND CONSENT

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

28 wks at #1 · 13 on list
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EXODUS
Leon Uris
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EXODUS

by Leon Uris · Doubleday

57 wks on list
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THE UGLY AMERICAN
William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
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THE UGLY AMERICAN

by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick · W.W. Norton and Company

55 wks on list

The multi-million-copy bestseller that blends truth and fiction in a “devastating indictment of American policy” (New York Times Book Review). A piercing exposé of American incompetence and corruption in Southeast Asia, The Ugly American captivated the nation when it was first published in 1958. The book introduces readers to an unlikely hero in the titular “ugly American”—and to the ignorant politicians and arrogant ambassadors who ignore his empathetic and commonsense advice. In linked stories and vignettes set in the fictional nation of Sarkhan, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick draw an incisive portrait of American foreign policy gone dangerously wrong—and how it might be fixed. Eerily relevant sixty years after its initial publication, The Ugly American reminds us that “today, as the battle for hearts and minds has shifted to the Middle East, we still can’t speak Sarkhanese” (New York Times).

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EVA
Meyer Levin
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EVA

by Meyer Levin · Simon & Schuster

8 wks on list
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LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER
D.H. Lawrence
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LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER

by D.H. Lawrence · Random House

26 wks on list

El amante de Lady Chatterley, publicada por primera vez en 1928, es una innovadora novela de D.H. Lawrence que profundiza en temas como el amor, la pasión y las limitaciones sociales. La historia sigue a Constance Reid, o Connie, casada con Sir Clifford Chatterley, un intelectual rico y paralítico. Viviendo en Wragby Hall, Connie se siente aislada e insatisfecha mientras su marido se centra en sus afanes intelectuales. La soledad de Connie la lleva a tener un romance con Oliver Mellors, el guardabosques de la finca, cuyo físico robusto y conexión con la naturaleza contrastan fuertemente con la actitud distante de su marido. Su relación es profundamente transformadora y ofrece a Connie una sensación de vitalidad y libertad. A través de este romance, Lawrence explora la sexualidad humana, las divisiones de clase y la búsqueda de la auténtica intimidad. Célebre por su cándida descripción de la sexualidad y su crítica al sistema de clases británico, El amante de Lady Chatterley se enfrentó a la censura y a batallas legales. Esta nueva edición retoma la provocadora y perspicaz narración de Lawrence, una historia que aborda con audacia la intersección del amor, la identidad y las expectativas sociales.

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THE LOTUS EATERS
Gerald Green

THE LOTUS EATERS

by Gerald Green · Charles Scribner's Sons

6 wks on list

Tom, hero to his Italian family and friends of New York's Bronx, Marty, his wife, and her eccentric genius of a father, a famous anthropologist, Prof. Maitland, who cannot resist championing lost causes; Ballard, a Negro whose scientific background is at odds with the pull back to the war his people are waging; an ex-Communist, haunted by his personal tragedy. Set against them are the millionaire couple who have granted the right to "the dig", and who show a shallow concern for the findings. a possible lost site of a lost tribe of Glade Indians. And Ira deKay, an utterly surrealist character, whose one aim becomes the acquisition of Tom's remote, beautiful, arrogant wife.

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THE TOWN HOUSE
Norah Lofts
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THE TOWN HOUSE

by Norah Lofts · Doubleday

Three-generation story of a family's rise from serfdom to great wealth in 15th-century England.

Historical bestseller data sourced from the New York Times Book Review, archived by Hawes Publications.