B-Side Books · Essays on Forgotten Favorites by Plotz, John -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Series List Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Childhood, Through a Glass Darkly

1. A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) 2. The Young Visiters (Daisy Ashford) 3. The Diary of “Helena Morley” (Elizabeth Bishop, trans.) 4. Brown Girl, Brownstones (Paule Marshall: In Memoriam) 5. An American Childhood (Annie Dillard) 6. The Last Samurai (Helen DeWitt)

Part II: Other Worlds

7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 8. The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson) 9. Lolly Willowes (Sylvia Townsend Warner) 10. Mythology (Edith Hamilton) 11. Other Leopards (Denis Williams) 12. Solaris (Stanislaw Lem) 13. Riddley Walker (Russell Hoban)

Part III: Comedy

14. The Beggar’s Opera (John Gay) 15. Lady Into Fox (David Garnett) 16. Prater Violet (Christopher Isherwood) 17. “Rogue’s Gallery” (Mary McCarthy) 18. Gringos (Charles Portis)

Part IV: Battle and Strife

19. The Road to Calvary (Alexei Tolstoy) 20. The Forbidden Zone (Mary Borden) 21. Nikola the Outlaw (Ivan Olbracht) 22. The House of Hunger (Dambudzo Marechera) 23. The Short-Timers (Gustav Hasford) 24. A Flag for Sunrise (Robert Stone) 25. The Vehement Passions (Philip Fisher)

Part V: Home Fires

26. Annals of the Parish (John Galt) 27. The Dry Heart (Natalia Ginzburg) 28. Life Among the Savages; Raising Demons (Shirley Jackson) 29. My Uncle Napoleon (Iraj Pezeshkzad) 30. We Think the World of You (J. R. Ackerley) 31. All Aunt Hagar’s Children (Edward P. Jones)

Part VI: Mysteries and Trials

32. The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford 33. The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers) 34. Stamboul Train (Graham Greene) 35. The Hours Before Dawn (Celia Fremlin)

Part VII: Journeys of the Spirit

36. A Life of One’s Own (Marion Milner) 37. Butcher’s Crossing (John Williams) 38. Journey in Search of the Way (Satomi Myōdō) 39. I Remember (Joe Brainard) 40. Transformatrix (Patience Agbabi)

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