Hardcover Fiction

by John le Carré · Coward-McCann

Originally published: London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

by Mary McCarthy · Harcourt, Brace and World

Eight Vassar girls, determined not to be like Mother, decide to move with the times and put into action the ideas they have learned about in college.

by Helen MacInnes · Harcourt, Brace and World

by John O'Hara · Random House

A collection of 24 hitherto uncollected stories.

by John Cheever · Harper & Row

Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity.

by Morris L. West · William Morrow and Company

by James Michener · Random House

To the mountain fastness of Afghanistan comes Mark Miller, an American diplomat attached to the Embassy in Kabul. He is investigating the disappearance of Ellen Jasper, an independent young woman in search of the freedom offered by the wildest and weirdest land on earth.

by Meyer Levin · Simon & Schuster

"Maury Finkelstein, ex-rabbinical student, translates the book of the late Leo Kahn. Kahn's work is said to be a moving and mystic evocation of the Jewish resistance in WWII. Maury's idealism is fired by the book. He is not impelled by self-interest in searching out a producer for the play he has adopted from the book. He wants this for the world, for Israel, and for Jews everywhere. He is made a fanatic by the people with whom he must deal who are motivated by profit. For various private considerations, they twist his scenario and soften its impact; worse, they have cheated Maury of his rights to the play and changed its intent. The most embittering of Maury's problems were those Jews, powerful in the theater, who were more concerned with Gentile audience appeal than their heritage. Two inescapable things about fanatics are their ability to bore and irritate. To this extent, Levin has created an authentic figure in Maury whose naivete and reliance on rabbinical argument, long after the necessity for a good lawyer has become apparent, is extended and distressing. This is a long book made no easier by the clumsy narrative device -- it is told with the disembodied and dispassionate voice of the dead author Kahn, in whose literary genius it is hard to believe. This urges self-examination by American Jews -- a smaller, but active, portion of Levin's large general readership."--Kirkus

by Ian Fleming · New American Library

James Bond 007 is back! Bond is approached by a crime boss to marry his daughter and in return both father and daughter help 007 hunt for his archenemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.Whilst on leave, British agent James Bond prevents a young woman, Tracy Draco, from committing suicide. Her father is the head of a powerful crime syndicate who is impressed by Bond and wants him to protect his daughter by marrying her. In exchange he offers Bond information which will lead 007 to his arch enemy Ernst Blofeld. At first Bond agrees to the deal purely to fulfil his objective to kill Blofeld but later he grows to love Tracy but when the British learn that Blofeld plans to destroy mankind with a deadly virus, 007 is torn between his loyalty to his county and his intent to marry Tracy.

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

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