CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

A Note on the Text

Introduction

PART I

1. Nighttown

2. Nora Barnacle

3. The Vortex

4. Trieste

5. Smithy of Souls

6. Little Modernisms

7. The Medici of Modernism

8. Zurich

PART II

9. Power and Postage

10. The Woolfs

11. Brutal Madness

12. Shakespeare and Company

13. Hell in New York

14. The Ghost of Comstock

15. Elijah Is Coming

16. The People of the State of New York v. Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap

17. Circe Burning

PART III

18. The Bible of the Outcasts

19. The Booklegger

20. The King’s Chimney

21. The Pharmacopeia

22. Glamour of the Clandestine

23. Modern Classics

24. Treponema

25. Search and Seizure

26. The United States of America v. One Book Called “Ulysses”

27. The Tables of the Law

 

Epilogue

Photographs

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Credits