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