Best Selling Books by James Gould Cozzens

An unspecified catastrophe has overtaken New York. Mr. Lecky, the sole survivor, finds himself in a great department store which has also escaped destruction. Here is everything a human being might need, not only to support existence but to afford luxury and comfort. But not quite everything. As the story unfolds with frightening realism, it becomes clear that Mr. Cozzens has constructed a modern parable of the tale of Robinson Crusoe, one with powerful implications -- philosophical, psychological, mystical.

A highly-respected, middle-aged lawyer''s involvements with love are revealed in a series of flashbacks

James Gould Cozzens was one of America''s most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GUARD OF HONOR balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days to a racial incident on a U.S. Air Force training base in Florida in 1942.

This volume was published to mark the seventy-fifth birthday, 19 August 1978, of James Gould Cozzens. The complete novel, the selections from six of Cozzen''s major novels, and the stories, essays, and reviews included here furnish a comprehensive overview of and an introduction to the canon of a major American novelist. The book provides a permanently usable collection for new readers of James Gould Cozzens as well as an omnibus for the initiated.--Provided by publisher.

This novel tells the story of the S.S. San Pedro, an ocean liner bound from New York to Argentine, with full cargo, a million dollars in gold, and a crowded list of holiday passengers that went down off the Atlantic coast. It is a relentless and dramatic story of the battle with the storm, the ship more more powerless, the captain facing the awful risk with stubborn courage.--Provided by publisher of first American edition.

The narrator is Henry Worthington, founder and head of an eminently successful management consultant firm. Come to be sixty-odd, and moved to wonder what if any meaning his life may have, he undertakes a review of it.

Includes the detailed World War II diaries and seventy-five declassified secret memos written by Cozzens, who worked in the Office of Information Services at Air Force Headquarters and who was privy to daily activity reports and confidential memos which revealed the "scandals, misadventures and dirty deals which here and there enlivened the record."--Jacket.

This is the story of an aristocratic woman, Cerise D''Atrée, daughter of a French father and an English mother, as she attends school in Europe seeking an outlet for her talents and searching for sustaining values. James Gould Cozzens'' first book.

This novel is set in a small seaside town in Cuba and features Joel Stellow, a powerful figure in the sugar industry, his oldest friend, Vidal Monaga, and Monaga''s beautiful and sensual daughter, Nida, and his strange, aloof son, Osmundo, and American drifter, Oliver Findley.

Catherine is resentful of her older sister, Mary Louise and her interest in boys. Set in Cuba, this short story comes to a violent end.

Set in Elizabethan England, Michael Scarlett, a well-educated and wealthy young man, and his friends move to London and become the proprieters of the Golden Asse inn. Michael becomes a leader in London''s anti-Puritan faction.

Character study of an American in Europe who is forced to become a tutor-companion to the son of a widow.

This novel, translated into French, tells how, in the span of forty-nine hours, small-town lawyer Arthur Winner discovers the deeper meaning of his world, his relationships, and himself.

Correspondence, 1923-60, chiefly concerning various aspects of the publication and marketing of Cozzens'' first novel, Confusion, 1924 [44 items. chiefly typescript (carbon copy)]--Photographs, 1924, of Cozzens [25 items. black & white]--Miscellaneous items, 1924, connected with the novel''s publication, including clippings, advertising circulars, and a synopsis of Confusion [ca. 20 items. chiefly printed]. Correspondents include: Minna Adams, Arnold Bennett, William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite, George Elliston, and John S. Van E. Kohn.

Writes about his disapproval of "autographing."