Erskine Caldwell - A House in the Uplands
Signet Books 686, 1948
Cover Artist: Robert Jonas

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W. W. Sawyer - Mathematician's Delight
Pelican Books P8, 1946
Cover Artist: Robert Jonas

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Lillian Smith - Strange Fruit
Penguin Signet Books 665, 1948
Cover Artist: Robert Jonas

"The most explosive novel of our time."

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Ludwig Lewisohn - The Tyranny of Sex
(Original Title: The Case of Mr. Crump)
Penguin Signet Books 649, 1948
Cover Artist: Robert Jonas

"A powerful, long-suppressed novel!"

Kirkus Review (1947):
A characterization, in full detail and at long length, of a slattern and a succubus, pursuing and possessive, and of her power for evil which was not weakened by the distaste she provoked. At 22, naive and somewhat lovelorn after an affair, Herbert Crump meets Anne Vilas, an older married woman, is seduced by her and cannot extricate himself – and she insists on divorce and marriage. His next years are spent in worry over her debts, the support of her shiftless children, her vigilance and vulgarity. Then comes a measure of success in the field of composition – and hope of freedom and a genuine marriage, only to have the vengeful Anne distort his real love to scandal and shame, driving him to killing... Full credit on credibility; certainly unpleasant reading. Why revive it?

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Jack London - Martin Eden
Penguin Books 587, 1946
Cover Artist: Robert Jonas

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