B-Side Books : : Essays on Forgotten Favorites / / ed. by John Plotz.
There are the acknowledged classics of world literature: the canonical works assigned in schools, topping every must-read list . . . and then there are the B-Sides. These are the books that slipped through the cracks, went unread, missed their rightful appointment with posterity. They were ahead of...
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Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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)
- Contributors