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...were set in the long ago and far away. Danish Novelist Annemarie Selinko's Désirée, a sentimental historical about the adventures of an early mistress of Napoleon, fought it out for first place for several months with a holdover from last year, Thomas Costain's The Silver Chalice. At the end, both were overhauled by a new edition of Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, which, boosted by the movie, recovered the top place on the list that it first won in 1943. With similar help from...
...Robe,* Lloyd C. Douglas Désirée, Annemarie Selinko The Silver Chalice, Thomas B. Costain Battle Cry, Leon Uris From Here to Eternity* James Jones Beyond This Place, A. J. Cronin
...bestseller, The Silver Chalice, by Thomas Costain, the speculation is repeated (TIME, July...
...true bookseller's delight was Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, first published in March 1951. Never off the bestseller list, and mostly at the top, its sales in all editions reached 1,000,000. The other leaders-Costain, Keyes, Ferber, Du Maurier-moved along predictable roads, leaving their familiar footprints without increasing or diminishing their reputations. John Steinbeck's East of Eden was not predictable, but its loose, woolly yarn on good & evil, featuring a sensational and improbable prostitute, dazzled a lot of readers and critics...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier