Word: mauriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels and six nonfiction books passed the 100,000 mark, creating the kind of bookstore traffic that carried along many more modest titles. In fiction, it was a year not of newcomers but of oldtimers. The big sellers were the big names, the reassuringly familiar quantities-Hemingway, Steinbeck, Du Maurier, Keyes, Costain, Ferber...
...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...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum (TIME...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME...
...Cousin Rachel, by Daphne du Maurier. An expert mixture of suspense and romantic hokum, set in the Rebecca country 100 or more years ago (TIME. Feb.11...