Hardcover Fiction

by Norman Mailer · Random House

by Betty Smith · Harper

by Hervey Allen · Rinehart and Company

by A.J. Cronin · Little, Brown

Robert Shannon was a devoted scientist on the brink of a medical discovery of great importance. He had no time or inclination for women . . . or for any of the world outside his laboratory. But Jean Law had other plans for him. Strictly brought up by narrow-minded parents, confined by her hospital lectures and her dingy boarding-house, she hardly knew the fires that burned beneath her calm exterior . . . except that they burned for Robert Shannon. She knew she had to have him for herself, and, despite her family’s religious beliefs , their shocked disapproval, and all she had been taught was her destiny, she was determined to fight for him. In the magnificent narrative tradition of The Citadel, The Stars Look Down and Cronin’s other classic novels, Shannon’s Way is a great book by a much-loved author.

by Irwin Shaw · Random House

Traces three young men, two Americans and one German, from 1938 to 1945 after they meet as soldiers in a Bavarian forest in World War II.

by Stefan Heym · Little, Brown

by Esther Forbes · Houghton Mifflin

by Willa Cather · Knopf

by Carl Sandburg · Harcourt, Brace

by Evelyn Waugh · Little, Brown

by Alice Tisdale Hobart · Bobbs-Merrill

Russian refugee bride, and the questions of human rights and water divide a family.

by Graham Greene · Viking Press

by Taylor Caldwell · Amereon Ltd

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author's "magnificent" tale of romantic intrigue in the gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre ( The New York Times). In the eyes of his daughter Melissa, Charles Upjohn can do no wrong. Where others see a minor novelist whose ego far outweighs his talent, Melissa sees a brilliant artist deserving of a wider audience. Where her sister and brother see a cold and inattentive parent who can't provide for his family, Melissa sees a doting father whose intentions are beyond reproach. On his deathbed, Charles puts his eldest daughter in charge of her mother and siblings. Melissa will do anything she can to please him—even if it means marrying a man she hates. As Charles Upjohn's publisher, Geoffrey Dunham holds the keys to the writer's legacy. Dunham also has the means to provide for Melissa and her family, and the desire to do so. Melissa knows her life with Dunham will be grim and passionless, but she's willing to sacrifice her own happiness in order to fulfill her father's wishes. Dunham, however, refuses accept a wife in name only. To win Melissa's heart, he must destroy everything she believes about her father—and herself. A darkly riveting portrait of the thin line between love and hate, Melissa confirms author Taylor Caldwell's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers.

by Upton Sinclair · Viking Press

Presidential secret agent in Italy, France, Spain and Germany.

by Albert Camus · Hamish Hamilton

Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the Algerian coastal city of Oran.

by Nevil Shute · Heinemann