Reader's Digest Condensed Books; Summer 1957, Volume 30: The Lady, / A Houseful of Love / The Three Faces of Eve / Letter from Peking / The FBI Story / The Spiral Road

by Conrad Richter, Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Corbett H. Thigpen

Contains: The Lady
A Houseful of Love
The Three Faces of Eve
Letter From Peking
The FBI Story
The Spiral Road

559 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1957

About the author

Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[1] His novel The Waters of Kronos won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction.[2] Two collections of short stories were published posthumously during the 20th century, and several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses. (wikipedia.org)

Reviews

[Melinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this at a yardsale because of the book, Letter From Peking. I went through a phase where I read everything I could find by Pearl S. Buck. And _Letter From Peking_ is well-done. I remember that _The Three Faces of Eve_ was billed as a psychological classic. It was good but not fabulously good. _The Spiral Road_ is an excerpt from a longer book by Jan de Hartog. I recently read another excerpt, in another Reader's Digest book, from the same Jan de Hartog novel. Mr. Hartog writes very well and very thoughtfully.

I probably read the others: _The FBI Story_ I remember something about but it wasn't great enough to warrant a lot of recall. The others were probably a mystery and a light-hearted story. Reader's Digest back in the 50's, besides being now in my price range at yardsales, had exceptionally good taste and a good spread of interests in each volume.

[Judith the Book Gobbler · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was very interesting to me to read the books which were popular when I was born.