Hardcover Fiction

by Herman Wouk · Doubleday

Each decade new readers discover the characters and curious activities aboard the U.S.S. "Caine in this classic tale of pathos, humor, and scope.

by Daphne du Maurier · Doubleday

by Agnes Sligh Turnbull · Houghton Mifflin

Activities of the 25th year of a Presbyterian country preacher and his family.

by Frank Yerby · Dial Press

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf

Based on the author's own experiences, this book presents the story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. It offers descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts. It tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep.

by Howard Spring · Harper and Brothers

by Taylor Caldwell · Crown Publishers. Inc

Novel of America in 1970 when an enslaved and oppressed people finally rise against their masters, the ruling powers of a totalitarian state, whose origin is traced back to the New Deal of the 1930's.

by Mary Roberts Rinehart · Rinehart & Company

by Edith Simon · Putnam

A Cathedral is built in 14th-century England, in honor of a miracle.

by Ralph Ellison · Random House

by Paul Hyde Bonner · Scribner

by C.S. Forester · Little, Brown and Company

by Frank G. Slaughter · Doubleday

by Mary O'Hara · David McKay

A clergyman deals with the public and private sides of being a preacher.

by Henry Green · Viking Press

by Harold Robbins · Alfred A. Knopf

As a teenager, Danny Fisher had all he ever wanted -- a dog, a grown-up summer job, flirtatious relationships with older women -- and a talent for ruthless boxing that quickly made him a star in the amateur sporting world. But when Danny's family falls on hard times, moving from their comfortable home in Brooklyn to Manhattan's squalid Lower East Side, he is forced to leave his carefree childhood behind. Facing poverty and daily encounters with his violent, anti-Semitic neighbors, Danny must fight both inside and outside the ring just to survive. As his boxing becomes legendary in the city's seedy underworld, packed with wiseguys and loose women, everyone seems to want a hand in Danny's success. Robbins's colorful, fast-talking characters evoke the rough streets of Depression-era New York City. Ronnie, a prostitute ashamed of how far she's fallen and desperately in need of friendship; Sam, a slick bookie who wants to profit from Danny's boxing talent; and Nellie, a beautiful but lonely girl who refuses to believe Danny is beyond redemption -- each of whom has a different vision of Danny's future -- will help steer his rocky course. Gritty, compelling, and groundbreaking for its time, A Stone for Danny Fisher is a tale of ambition, hope, and violence set in a distinct and dangerous period of American history. A classic, sexy bestseller by Harold Robbins, reintroduced to a whole new generation of readers.