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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Biel, Steven,
Bolton, Jonathan,
Brazil, Kevin,
Brown, Adrienne,
Burt, Stephanie,
Chaganti, Seeta,
Cohen, Margaret,
Crain, Caleb,
Dabashi, Pardis,
Daston, Lorraine,
Davis, Theo,
Ellmann, Maud,
Emre, Merve,
Ferry, Elizabeth,
Fielding, Penny,
Fountain, Ben,
Graver, Elizabeth,
Hofmeyr, Isabel,
Hyde, Emily,
Kaminsky, Lauren,
Kreilkamp, Ivan,
Le Guin, Ursula K.,
Lofton, Kathryn,
Marcus, Sharon,
Marshall, Kate,
McCann, Sean,
McCauley, Stephen,
Miller, Andrew H.,
Moi, Toril,
Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo,
Plotz, John,
Price, Leah,
Rotella, Carlo,
Saint-Amour, Paul,
Scibona, Salvatore,
Serpell, Namwali,
Smith, Vanessa,
Sun Lee, Yoon,
Targoff, Ramie,
Zorach, Rebecca,
HerausgeberIn:
Plotz, John,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Public Books Series
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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

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