TheBestseller
Observatory

Best Sellers

Hardcover Nonfiction

Week of December 27, 1970

FictionNonfiction
WeekMonth
Jump to
3
2
CIVILISATION
Kenneth Clark
Cover of CIVILISATION

CIVILISATION

by Kenneth Clark · Harper & Row

10 wks on list

The skin of our teeth (50:43) illuminates the Dark Ages, the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire. The great thaw (48:24) traces the sudden reawakening of 12th-century European civilization from the first manifestations at the Abbey of Cluny to its high point, the building of the cathedral at Chartres. Romance and reality (49:56) explores the achievements of the later Middle Ages in France and Italy.

7
1
FUTURE SHOCK
Alvin Toffler
Cover of FUTURE SHOCK

FUTURE SHOCK

by Alvin Toffler · Random House, Inc

11 wks on list

Examines the effects of rapid industrial and technological changes upon the individual, the family, and society. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

9
NEW
PAPILLON
Henri Charriere
Cover of PAPILLON

PAPILLON

by Henri Charriere · William Morrow and Company

10 wks on list

Papillon is an autobiographical novel, or sometimes referred to as a narrative novel. A memoir by convicted felon Henri Charrière that accounts for a fourteen-year period in Charrière's life (October 26, 1931 to October 18, 1945) from when he was wrongly convicted of murder in France and sentenced to a life of hard labor at the Devil's Island penal colony, to when he escaped from prison to Venezuela free of French justice.

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