Financial Times, by Ronald Fraser (1942)
Financial Times has the best two opening sentences I’ve read in a long time: William Longfellow Wollacombe, the Royal Academician, an upright figure with whiskers and the face of a statesman, a man of great …
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A Visit from Venus, by Ronald Fraser (1958)
How to describe A Visit from Venus? How about P. G. Wodehouse meets Olaf Stapledon? This assumes people recognize Stapledon, a contemporary of Wodehouse’s who wrote cosmic fantasies that swept the reader through spans of …
Writer’s Choice
Writer’s Choice: A Library of Rediscoveries, edited by Linda Sternberg Katz and Bill Katz Reston, Virginia: Reston Publishing Company, 1983 Probably the most extensive survey of neglected books ever published, Writer’s Choice lists nearly 1,000 …
Kathleen Sully, the Vanished Novelist
‘NOVELIST LECTURER VANISHES’ announced a headline in The Sheffield Telegraph on Wednesday, June 26, 1963. ‘What has happened to Kathleen Sully, the writer who should have arrived in Sheffield yesterday to lecture at the Sheffield …
Common Reader Editions
Common Reader Editions Beginning in the late 1990s, Akadine Press, through its catalog company, A Common Reader reissued dozens of neglected titles in handsome paperback editions. With a few exceptions, the titles dated from the …