Hardcover Fiction

by Allen Drury · Doubleday

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Marcia Davenport · Charles Scribner's Sons

Hariet and Carlo saw no harm in their love affair. It was intended to last only as long as Hariet's winter in Milan. Neither of them expected they would mean so much to each other. When an old and sophisticated society enforced the rights of the family against the lawless claims of love, the love was put to a terrible test.

by Cameron Hawley · Little, Brown and Company

by John O'Hara · Random House

In 1908, in a small Pennsylvania town, a highly respected citizen kills his young wife. A full-length portrait of a troubled and talented man of good will.

by Guiseppe di Lampedusa · Pantheon

by Nevil Shute · William Morrow and Company

by Lawrence Durrell · E.P. Dutton

by Paul Horgan · Farrar & Rinehart

A Distant Trumpet is a story of the American West, hailed as "a first-rate historical novel about the eternally mystifying, fascinating, dramatic complexities of human character."

by Taylor Caldwell · Doubleday

by Irwin Shaw · Random House

An American, Jack Andrus, is suddenly called to Rome on an errand of friendship. Soon after his arrival he is the victim of a bizarre accident.

by Mary Stewart · William Morrow and Company

by Morris L. West · William Morrow and Company

by Paul Gallico · Doubleday

by Jessamyn West · Harcourt, Brace

by Howard Spring · Harper and Brothers

The story is set in Cornwall where the lead character, Maria Legassick, and her sisters Bella and Louisa, and brother, Roger, are the sons and daughters of a Cornish vicar.