Excerpts

Excerpts from the texts of selected Neglected Books.


“Everybody has to burn his own hand …”

2nd October 2012

“The Passing of Pengelley,” from Blow the Man Down! A Yankee Seaman’s Adventures Under Sail, by James H. Williams

22nd May 2013

A Dragon Apparent, by Norman Lewis

2nd August 2006

Arrow to the Heart, by Albrecht Goes

10th July 2006

Aunt Bébé and the Count, from Aston Kings, by Humphrey Pakington

7th April 2013

French Ecclesiastical Society under the Ancien Régime, by John McManners

3rd July 2006

From Living Again: An Autobiography, by Felix Riesenberg

10th November 2012

from As I Remember Him, by Hans Zinsser

5th July 2010

from Charley Smith’s Girl, by Helen Bevington

22nd February 2013

from Freedom in a Rocking Boat, by Geoffrey Vickers

12th December 2009

from The Heart to Artemis: A Writer’s Memoirs, by Bryher

14th March 2010

from You Still Have Your Head, by Franz Schoenberner

23rd March 2013

James Agate on Emil Ludwig’s Beethoven: The Life of a Conqueror

3rd June 2012

Jew Süss, by Lion Feuchtwanger

5th July 2006

Money, by Emile Zola

5th July 2006

Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech

19th December 2006

The Death of the Detective, by Mark Smith

5th July 2006

The Descent, by Fritz Peters

18th July 2006

The Late Risers, by Bernard Wolfe

27th July 2006

The Prophets of Israel, by Edith Hamilton

10th January 2007

The Tragic Fate of Squirrel Flotillas, from Oliver Goldsmith’s A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature

10th July 2011