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Longer reviews of selected neglected books worth rediscovering.
A Big Man, a Fast Man, by Benjamin Appel
April 22nd, 2009
A Book and A Love Affair, by Helen Bevington
January 27th, 2013
A Very Short History of the World, by Geoffrey Blainey
July 3rd, 2006
Across Paris, by Marcel Aymé
August 9th, 2008
Al Young’s Musical Memoirs
June 4th, 2008
Alamut, by Vladimir Bartol
July 7th, 2006
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, Gerald Weinberg
September 2nd, 2007
Antoine Bloyé, by Paul Nizan
August 6th, 2006
Augustus Carp, Esq. by Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man, by Henry Howarth Bashford (
first published anonymously
)
July 5th, 2006
Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices, by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter
February 21st, 2010
Capitol Hill, by Harvey Fergusson
October 1st, 2006
Caspar Hauser, by Jakob Wassermann
July 4th, 2006
Charley Smith’s Girl, by Helen Bevington
February 24th, 2013
Constructions, by Michael Frayn
December 3rd, 2006
Cynthia, by Leonard Merrick
August 7th, 2010
David Hume, by J. Y. T. Greig
July 6th, 2006
De Vriendt Goes Home, by Arnold Zweig
July 5th, 2006
Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich
July 5th, 2006
Fables by Modern Writers
September 11th, 2011
Fables in Slang, by George Ade
July 7th, 2006
Fireside Books of Baseball and Other Sports and Games
February 25th, 2010
Five Days (AKA Five Nights), by Eric Hatch
November 22nd, 2009
Flamingo, by Mary Borden
August 12th, 2009
Fortunata and Jacinta, by Benito Perez Galdos: The Greatest Novel You’ve Never Heard of
January 2nd, 2012
Fortune is a Woman, by Hermes Nye
March 24th, 2008
Frank Harris, by Hugh Kingsmill
July 6th, 2006
From the Steeples and Mountains: A Study of Charles Ives, by David Wooldridge
April 16th, 2011
Guard of Honor, by James Gould Cozzens
July 6th, 2006
H. M. Pulham, Esquire, by John P. Marquand
May 14th, 2009
High Water, by Richard Bissell
July 6th, 2006
House of All Nations, by Christina Stead
July 7th, 2006
Human Being, by Christopher Morley
December 28th, 2011
Human Landscapes from My Country, by Nazim Hikmet
January 12th, 2013
If It Prove Fair Weather, by Isabel Paterson
May 17th, 2009
Invasion, by Maxence van der Meersch
February 26th, 2012
Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman
July 6th, 2006
Life in the Crystal Palace, by Alan Harrington
April 13th, 2009
Little Lives, by John Howland Spyker (pseudonym of Richard Elman)
July 3rd, 2006
Little Pedlington and the Pedlingtonians, by John Poole
January 2nd, 2011
Living Again: An Autobiography, by Felix Riesenberg
November 4th, 2012
Log Book, by Frank Laskier
March 18th, 2012
Making Institutions Work, by Geoffrey Vickers
March 15th, 2009
Men of Good Will, by Jules Romains
November 19th, 2006
Miklos Banffy’s Transylvanian Trilogy
March 28th, 2010
Morale, by John Baynes
August 16th, 2010
Mortal Leap, by MacDonald Harris
June 15th, 2008
My Life with George: An Unconventional Autobiography, by I. A. R. Wylie
May 27th, 2012
Never Ask the End, by Isabel Paterson
April 22nd, 2007
One Man’s View, by Leonard Merrick
July 19th, 2010
Other Ranks, by W. V. Tilsley
July 6th, 2006
Our Own Set, by Ossip Schubin
November 13th, 2010
Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places, by John R. Stilgoe
June 16th, 2013
Personal Pleasures, by Rose Macaulay
September 9th, 2012
Picture Frames (also published as Window Panes), by Thyra Samter Winslow
June 6th, 2010
Praise a Fine Day, by Sigrid de Lima
July 25th, 2010
Proud Destiny, by Lion Feuchtwanger
July 7th, 2006
Pull Devil, Pull Baker, by Stella Benson and Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine
August 12th, 2007
Red Horses, by Felix Riesenberg: A re-write of his first novel, P. A. L.
May 12th, 2013
Season’s Greetings, by Herbert Clyde Lewis
December 28th, 2009
Sincerely, Willis Wayde, by John P. Marquand
May 1st, 2008
Six Lives and a Book, by Claude Houghton
April 18th, 2008
Sleuthing in the Stacks, by Rudolph Altrocchi
September 24th, 2006
Solitary Confinement, by Christopher Burney
July 6th, 2006
Spring Offensive, by Herbert Clyde Lewis
November 1st, 2009
Strange Conquest, by Alfred Neumann
July 7th, 2006
Sweet Dreams, Michael Frayn
July 6th, 2006
The Age of Reason, by Harold Nicolson
October 28th, 2008
The Best of H. T. Webster
March 27th, 2010
The Biography of a New York Hotel Scrub, by Ada Blum
January 29th, 2011
The Bottom of the Harbor, Joseph Mitchell
July 7th, 2006
The Chosen Valley: the Story of a Pioneer Town, by Margaret Snyder
August 20th, 2011
The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook, by Mignon McLaughlin
October 31st, 2010
The Eighth Day, by Thornton Wilder
July 5th, 2006
The Evolution Man, by Roy Lewis
July 7th, 2006
The Family Carnovsky, by I. J. Singer
July 3rd, 2006
The Golden Vanity, by Isabel Paterson
September 30th, 2007
The Great American Novel, by Clyde Brion Davis
July 7th, 2006
The House was Quiet and the World was Calm, by Helen Bevington
February 11th, 2013
The Inside Story of an Outsider, by Franz Schoenberner
August 4th, 2012
The Invisible Flag, by Peter Bamm
April 27th, 2008
The Lake, by George Moore
July 7th, 2006
The Mad Stone, by Lorna Beers
July 13th, 2010
The Moonflower Vine, by Jetta Carleton
December 23rd, 2006
The Office, by Nathan Asch
August 26th, 2006
The Prophets of Israel, by Edith Hamilton
June 29th, 2008
The Right to Heresy: Castellio Against Calvin, by Stefan Zweig
July 26th, 2008
The Search for Good Sense, by F. L. Lucas
July 16th, 2011
The Second Miracle, by Peter Greave
April 20th, 2013
The Seventh Gate, by Peter Greave
August 15th, 2009
The Silver Dark, by Herbert Clyde Lewis
September 18th, 2009
The Story of a Life, Konstantin Paustovsky
July 11th, 2007
The Sun’s Attendant, by Charles Haldeman
December 13th, 2009
The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien
July 7th, 2006
The Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden
August 23rd, 2007
The True Detective, by Theodore Weesner
February 11th, 2007
The Voyage of Forgotten Men, by Frank Thiess
November 1st, 2006
The Wet Flanders Plain, by Henry Williamson
July 6th, 2006
They’ve Shot the President’s Daughter!, by Edward Stewart
March 13th, 2010
This Is On Me, by Katharine Brush
February 17th, 2009
Transport, by Isa Glenn
October 18th, 2009
Under Gemini, by Isabel Bolton
May 18th, 2011
Unfinished Business, by Stephen Bonsal
February 28th, 2010
Vagabond Adventures, by Ralph Keeler
July 4th, 2006
View of Dawn in the Tropics, by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
July 6th, 2006
Wettermark, by Elliott Chaze
August 9th, 2009
What People Said, by William L. White
September 6th, 2008
When Found, Make a Verse of, by Helen Bevington
February 3rd, 2013
Winds of Morning, by H. L. Davis
July 23rd, 2006
Working with Roosevelt, by Samuel Rosenman
July 7th, 2006
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