A Partial List of Books

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen

To the North, Elizabeth Bowen

People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Allan Hepburn

Elizabeth Bowen, Victoria Glendinning

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

A Life in Letters, Anton Chekhov, ed. Rosamund Bartlett, trans. Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips

Autobiography of Maxim Gorky: My Childhood, In the World, My Universities, trans. Isidor Schneider

Monsignor Quixote, Graham Greene

Ways of Escape: An Autobiography, Graham Greene

Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy

Life’s Little Ironies, Thomas Hardy

The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy, ed. Michael Millgate

Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961, ed. Carlos Baker

Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, Søren Kierkegaard

Letters to Monica, Philip Larkin, ed. Anthony Thwaite

Stories, Katherine Mansfield

The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks, ed. Margaret Scott

Katherine Mansfield: Selected Letters, ed. Vincent O’Sullivan

All Will Be Well: A Memoir, John McGahern

Amongst Women, John McGahern

By the Lake, John McGahern

The Collected Stories, John McGahern

Elbow Room, James Alan McPherson

Hue and Cry: Stories, James Alan McPherson

A Region Not Home: Reflections from Exile, James Alan McPherson

The Complete Essays of Montaigne, trans. Donald M. Frame

Marianne Moore: Complete Poems

Marianne Moore: Selected Letters, ed. Bonnie Costello

Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore, Linda Leavell

Strong Opinions, Vladimir Nabokov

Jean-Christophe, Romain Rolland, trans. Gilbert Cannan

Letters from a Stoic, Seneca, trans. Robin Campbell

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

Dream Tales and Prose Poems, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett

Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

First Love and Other Stories, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

Home of the Gentry, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

Rudin, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

Sketches from a Hunter’s Album, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Richard Freeborn

Spring Torrents, Ivan Turgenev, trans. Leonard Schapiro

The Gentle Barbarian: The Work and Life of Turgenev, V. S. Pritchett

Turgenev: His Life and Times, Leonard Schapiro

Turgenev’s Letters: A Selection, ed. and trans. Edgar H. Lehrman

Letter from an Unknown Woman, Stefan Zweig, trans. Anthea Bell

Stefan and Lotte Zweig’s South American Letters: New York, Argentina and Brazil, 1940–42, ed. Darién J. Davis and Oliver Marshall

AND I’M INDEBTED to William Trevor and all his books.