Rediscoveries II

“Among every reader’s favorite books are little-known novels or volumes of stories that someone urged him or her to read. And every reader has urged others to reach for such books. Rediscoveries II is a gathering of essays by novelists whom we asked to rediscover their favorite neglected work of fiction. The title refers to the essayists and to some readers; for most readers, this book offers discoveries. Our purpose is to call attention and pay tribute to those works. Pure enjoyment is at the heart of this venture: both writers and readers enjoy discovering and rediscovering fiction that has suffered some kind of neglect.”–from the introduction to Rediscoveries II

Featured Titles

• The 28th Day of Elul, Richard Elman — selected by Nicholas Delbanco
• Aleck Maury, Sportsman, Caroline Gordon — selected by Thomas McGuane
• Birdsong, James White — selected by Thomas Williams
• Bright Destinations, Darwin Teilhet — selected by Alfred Coppel
• Bronc People, William Eastlake — selected by Alfred Appel
• Carmen, Prosper Merimee — selected by Arno Karlen
• The Christmas Tree, Isabel Bolton — selected by Doris Grumbach
• Clem Anderson, R.V. Cassill — selected by Richard Yates
• !Click Song, John A. Williams — selected by Ishmael Reed
• The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, William Saroyan — selected by Wallace Hildick
• Dark Bridwell, Vardis Fisher — selected by Frederick Manfred
• The Dead of the House, Hannah Green — selected by Rosellen Brown
• The Death of a Nobody, Jules Romains — selected by David Madden
• Debby (The Goblins Must Go Barefoot), Max Steele — selected by Elizabeth Spencer
• Do I Wake or Sleep?, Isabel Bolton — selected by Doris Grumbach
• Do, Lord, Remember Me, George Garrett — selected by Madison Smartt Bell
• The Even Temperature in the Cave, Mary Nash — selected by Maxine Kumin
• The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle — selected by Herbert Gold
• The Fearmakers, Darwin Teilhut — selected by Alfred Coppel
• Futility, William Gerhardie — selected by Hortense Calisher
• Go In Beauty, William Eastlake — selected by Alfred Appel
• The Golden Spur, Dawn Powell — selected by Gore Vidal
• High Water, Richard Bissell — selected by Elmore Leonard
• The Hill, Eleanor Green — selected by Mildred Walker
• I the Supreme, Roa Bastos — selected by Paul West
• The Infants of the Spring, Wallace Thurman — selected by Clarence Major
• The Joker, Jean Malaquais — selected by Norman Mailer
• The Kingdom of this World, Alejo Carpentier — selected by John Hersey
• Lilo’s Diary, Richard Elman — selected by Nicholas Delbanco
• The Locusts Have No King, Dawn Powell — selected by Gore Vidal
• The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson — selected by Barry Hannah
• Man of Straw, Heinrich Mann — selected by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• The Man Who Wrote Dirty Books, Hal Dresner — selected by Robie Macauley
• Many Mansions, Isabel Bolton — selected by Doris Grumbach
• Men Die, Harold Humes — selected by Alan Cheuse
• Nickel Miseries, Ivan Gold — selected by Dan Wakefield
• Party Going, Henry Green — selected by Mary Lee Settle
• The Peddler, William Stevens — selected by Vance Bourjaily
• The Polyglots, William Gerhardie — selected by Hortense Calisher
• The Poor Mouth, Flann O’Brien — selected by William Eastlake
• Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses, William Eastlake — selected by Alfred Appel
• The Reckoning, Richard Elman — selected by Nicholas Delbanco
• Reflections in a Golden Eye, Carson McCullers — selected by John Rechy
• Ryder, Djuna Barnes — selected by Peggy Bach
• Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Bruno Schulz — selected by John Updike
• Sheeper, Irving Rosenthal — selected by Andrei Codrescu
• The Short Cut, Ennio Flaiano — selected by Albert Guerard
• Soledad, R.G. Vliet — selected by Allen Wier
• Stoner, John Williams — selected by Gordon Weaver
• The Strange Case of Billy Biswas, Arun Joshi — selected by Clark Blaise
• Sugar in the Air, E. C. Large — selected by Frederik Pohl
• Sweet Flypaper of Life, Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes — selected by Ann Petry
• Tropisms, Nathalie Sarraute — selected by Moira Crone
• Tucker’s People, Ira Wolfert — selected by Gerald Green
• The Underground Man, Harold Humes — selected by Allan Cheuse
• A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay — selected by R.H.W. Dillard
• The Walls of Fire, Marc Worth — selected by Daniel Fuchs
• The Wicked Pavilion, Dawn Powell — selected by Gore Vidal
• The Wife of His Youth, Charles Chesnutt — selected by David Ray
• Young Man with a Horn, Dorothy Baker — selected by Janet Lewis

Additional Titles

After its essays on the above titles, Rediscoveries includes a list of other fiction titles recommended by its contributors:

• 63: Dream Palace, James Purdy — selected by David Madden
• Arcadio, William Goyen — selected by Madison Smartt Bell
• An Armful of Warm Girl, W.M. Spackman — selected by Edmund White
• Arturo’s Island, Elsa Morante — selected by Paula Fox
• Asleep in the Afternoon, E.C. Large — selected by Frederik Pohl
• At the Center, Norma Rosen — selected by Cynthia Ozick
• The Barbarians, Virginia Faulkner — selected by David Madden
• The Beach Umbrella, Cyrus Coulter — selected by David Ray
• Beasts and Men, Pierre Gascar — selected by James Dickey
• Bertha Garlan, Arthur Schnitzler — selected by Arno Karlen
• The Bethrothed (I Promessi Sposi), Alessandro Manzoni — selected by Robert Kotlowitz
• The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics, Eric Sackheim, ed. — selected by Allen Ginsburg
• The Bridge in the Jungle, B. Traven — selected by William Humphrey
• But for the Lovers, Wilfido Nonedo — selected by Robert Coover
• Cassandra, Christa Wolf — selected by Tillie Olsen
• The Catherine Wheel, Jean Stafford — selected by Peggy Bach
• The Circus of Dr. Lao, Charles Finney — selected by Edward Hoagland
• The Collected Stories of B. Traven, B. Traven — selected by Rita Dove
• Confidence Africaine, Roger Martin du Gard — selected by William Humphrey
• Continental Drift, Russell Banks — selected by Elmore Leonard
• Conversations in Sicily, Elio Vittorini — selected by Thomas McGuane
• A Cry of Absence, Madison Jones — selected by Madison Smartt Bell
• Dead of the House, Hannah Green — selected by Tillie Olsen
• The Death of the Novel, Ronald Sukenick — selected by David Madden
• A Delicate Prey, Paul Bowles — selected by John Rechy
• Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet — selected by James Dickey
• A Difference of Design, W.M. Spackman — selected by Stanley Elkin
• Driftwood Valley, Theodora Stanwell-Fisher — selected by Edward Hoagland
• Edwin Mulhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright, Steven Millhauser — selected by David Madden
• End as a Man, Calder Willingham — selected by John Rechy
• The End of My Life, Vance Bourjaily — selected by Herb Francis
• The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Hean (and the Mystery of Mr. Daunt): A Romance of Tasmania, William Gosse Hay — selected by Francis Steegmuller
• Fables for Parents, Dorothy Canfield Fisher — selected by Tillie Olsen
• False Coin, Harvey Swados — selected by Herb Francis
• The Family of Pascual Duarte, Camilo José Cela — selected by Thomas McGuane
• Far From My Home, Sacheverell Sitwell — selected by James Purdy
• Far From the Customary Skies, Warren Eyster — selected by Alan Cheuse
• Far From the Customary Skies, Warren Eyster — selected by Peggy Bach
• Fat City, Leonard Gardner — selected by Elmore Leonard
• The Gallery, John Horne Burns — selected by Gore Vidal
• The Gallery, John Horne Burns — selected by Irvin Faust
• The Garden, Yves Berger — selected by David Madden
• The Garrick Year, Margaret Drabble — selected by Roger Angell
• The Gold Diggers, Robert Creeley — selected by Russell Banks
• The Golovlyov Family, Shchedrin — selected by James Wood
• The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford — selected by Andrew Pyper
• Hardcastle, John Yount — selected by Elmore Leonard
• A Harvest of Stories, Dorothy Canfield Fisher — selected by Tillie Olsen
• Herself Surprised, Joyce Cary — selected by Daniel Keyes
• The Honorable Picnic, Thomas Raucat — selected by Paul Bowles
• Horses and Men, Sherwood Anderson — selected by Thomas McGuane
• The Horse’s Mouth, Joyce Cary — selected by Daniel Keyes
• The House by the Medlar Tree, Giovanni Verga — selected by Eleanor Clark
• The House with the Green Shutters, George Douglas — selected by William Humphrey
• How the Old Woman Got Home, M.P. Shiel — selected by Paul Bowles
• J R, William Gaddis — selected by Mary McCarthy
• Joe the Engineer, Chuck Wachtel — selected by Elmore Leonard
• Joy to Levine!, Norma Rosen — selected by Cynthia Ozick
• Justice Hunger and Other Stories, Meyer Liben — selected by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• The Key, Junichiro Tanizaki — selected by Arno Karlen
• The Kingdom of this World, Alejo Carpentier — selected by Paula Fox
• The Knights of Malta, S. Fowler Wright — selected by Frederik Pohl
• Lady into Fox, David Garnett — selected by Honor Tracy
• Lady into Fox, David Garnett — selected by Roger Angell
• Lady into Fox, David Garnett — selected by Thomas McGuane
• The Late George Apley, John P. Marquand — selected by Robert B. Parker
• Le Grand Maulnes, Alain-Fournier — selected by Roger Angell
• Letters from My Mill, Alphonse Daudet — selected by David Ray
• The Light in the Piazza, Elizabeth Spencer — selected by Maxine Kumin
• A Little Boy Lost, W.H. Hudson — selected by Paul Bowles
• Little Novels of Sicily, Giovanni Verga — selected by Tillie Olsen
• Lonely Crusade, Chester Himes — selected by Ishmael Reed
• Loving Hands at Home, Diane Johnson — selected by Mary McCarthy
• Man in the Zoo, David Garnett — selected by Honor Tracy
• The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead — selected by William Humphrey
• The Man Who Was There, Wright Morris — selected by Peggy Bach
• Mastro-Don Gesualdo, Giovanni Verga — selected by William Humphrey
• Melanctha, Gertrude Stein — selected by John Rechy
• Michael Kohlhaas, Heinrich von Kleist — selected by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• A Mirror for Witches, Esther Forbes — selected by Janet Lewis
• Miss Gomez and the Brethren, William Trevor — selected by Stanley Elkin
• Mistress Masham’s Repose, T.H.White — selected by Frederik Pohl
• The Moon and the Bonfire, Cesare Pavese — selected by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• Mr. Fortune’s Maggot, Sylvia Townsend Warner — selected by Arthur C. Clarke
• Mrs. Eckdorf in O’Neill’s Hotel, William Trevor — selected by Stanley Elkin
• The Murder of Aziz Khan, Zulfikar Ghose — selected by Thomas Berger
• Nightwood, Djuna Barnes — selected by Ishmael Reed
• Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov — selected by William Humphrey
• The Odd Women, George Gissing — selected by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• The Ogre, Michel Tournier — selected by David Madden
• On a Darkling Plain, Wallace Stegner — selected by James Dickey
• On the Line, Harvey Swados — selected by Herb Francis
• Out Went the Candle, Harvey Swados — selected by Herb Francis
• Oxherding Tale, Charles Johnson — selected by Rita Dove
• Pan, Knut Hamsun — selected by Thomas McGuane
• Parade’s End, Ford Madox Ford — selected by Nicholas Delbanco
• The Passage from Home, Isaac Rosenfeld — selected by David Ray
• Pavane, Keith Roberts — selected by Alfred Coppel
• Precious Bane, Mary Webb — selected by David Madden
• A Presence with Secrets, W.M. Spackman — selected by Stanley Elkin
• The Salt Eater, Toni Cade Bambara — selected by Rita Dove
• Scarlet Sister Mary, Julia Peterkin — selected by Sallie Bingham
• Short Stories, Arthur Schnitzler — selected by Arno Karlen
• The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, Harry Mathews — selected by Edmund White
• Snow White, Donald Barthelme — selected by Roger Angell
• The Spendthrifts, Perez Galdos — selected by Roger Angell
• Stories, Luigi Pirandello — selected by Elizabeth Spencer
• That Lass O’ Lowrie’s, Francis Hodgson Burnett — selected by David Madden
• This Child’s Gonna Live, Sarah Wright — selected by Tillie Olsen
• To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Cary — selected by Daniel Keyes
• Toots in Solitude, John Yount — selected by Elmore Leonard
• Touching Evil, Norma Rosen — selected by Cynthia Ozick
• Two Little Savages, Ernest Thompson Seton — selected by Frederik Pohl
• Ultima Thule, Henry Handel Richardson — selected by Mildred Walker
• Victoria, Knut Hamsun — selected by Thomas McGuane
• A Village in the Sun, Dane Chandos (Nigel Stansbury-Miller) — selected by M.F.K. Fisher
• The Violated, Vance Bourjaily — selected by Herb Francis
• The Wall of Dust, Hallam Tennyson — selected by James Dickey
• Wars, Timothy Findlay — selected by Elizabeth Spencer
• The Wave, Evelyn Scott — selected by James Purdy
• A Winter in Geneva and Other Stories, Anne Goodwin Winslow — selected by David Madden
• Women and Appletrees, Moa Martinson — selected by Tillie Olsen
• A Word Child, Iris Murdoch — selected by Peggy Bach
• The World is a Wedding, Delmore Schwartz — selected by David Ray