Hardcover Fiction

by A.J. Cronin · Little, Brown

by Annemarie Selinko · William Morrow and Company

Eugénie Désirée Clary records two love affairs in her diary, one with Napoleon, who jilted her for Josephine, and a second with General Bernadotte, who married her.

by Alan Paton · Charles Scribner's Sons

by James Hilton · Little, Brown and Company

by Leon Uris · G.P. Putnam's Sons

by Ernest K. Gann · William Sloane Associates

by Ben Ames Williams · Houghton Miflin

by Saul Bellow · Viking Press

by Pearl S. Buck · John Day

by Mika Waltari · Putnam

Historical novel about Constantinople at the time of its fall, in 1452-1453.

by James A. Michener · Random House

by Nicholas Monsarrat · Alfred A. Knopf

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

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Forester's most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike.

by Martin Dibner · Doubleday

by Thomas B. Costain · Doubleday and Company, Inc

"This novel [is] based on legends of the years following Christ's crucifixion. [It] describes the life of Basil, the artisan who fashioned the silver chalice, a frame meant to hold the ... cup from which Christ drank at the Last Supper"--Fiction catalog.

by Elizabeth Goudge · Coward-McCann