Rediscoveries

Rediscoveries, edited by David Madden
Crown Publishers, 1971

“The purpose of Rediscoveries,” David Madden writes in the introduction, “is to pay attention, at tribute, to works that are not known, even to many discriminating readers. Listening to writers talk about some of their favorite reading is in itself enjoyable, and these essays will have special appeal for readers who want to discover writing that current literary fashions neglect. The contributors would argue that the works discussed here are as “relevant” as better-known novels because they have retained their value as literature in every lasting sense of the term.”

• Adolphe, Benjamin Constant — selected by R.V. Cassill
• A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr. — selected by Walker Percy
• The Dark Arena, Mario Puzo — selected by James B. Hall
• Delilah, Marcus Goodrich — selected by Niven Busch
• The Dollmaker, Harriet Arnow — selected by Joyce Carol Oates
• Fight Night on a Sweet Saturday, Mary Lee Settle — selected by George Garrett
• Good-bye Wisconsin, Glenway Wescott — selected by Wallace Stegner
• Growth of the Soil, Knut Hamsun — selected by Jesse Hill Ford
• Homage to Blenholt, Daniel Fuchs — selected by Irwin Shaw
• The Horseman on the Roof, Jean Giono — selected by George P. Elliott
• The House of Breath, William Goyen — selected by Daniel Stern
• Know Nothing, Mary Lee Settle — selected by George Garrett
• A Lesson in Music, Marianne Hauser — selected by Anais Nin
• The Long Night, Andrew Lytle — selected by Robert Penn Warren
• The Malefactors, Caroline Gordon — selected by Brainard Cheney
• The Man Outside, Wolfgang Borchert — selected by Kay Boyle
• A Man’s Place, Ramon Sender — selected by George P. Elliott
• O Beulah Land, Mary Lee Settle — selected by George Garrett
• The Pastor’s Wife, Elizabeth (Countess Mary Annette Beauchamp Russell) — selected by George Lanning
• Paths of Glory, Humphrey Cobb — selected by Warren Eyster
• The Recognitions, William Gaddis — selected by David Madden
• Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates — selected by Fred Chappell
• South Wind, Norman Douglas — selected by Jack Matthews
• They Came Like Swallows, William Maxwell — selected by Hollis Summers
• Things As They Are, Gertrude Stein — selected by Jane Mayhall
• The Underdogs, Mariano Azuela — selected by Judson Jerome
• The Utmost Island, Henry Myers — selected by Millen Brand
• The Volga Falls to the Caspian Sea, Boris Pilnyak — selected by Harvey Swados
• Watergate, Francis MacManus — selected by Benedict Kiely
• The Wife of Martin Guerre, Janet Lewis — selected by Evan S. Connell, Jr.

  Additional Titles

  After its essays on the above titles, Rediscoveries includes an annotated list of other fiction titles worthy of rediscovery:

• About Us, Chester Aaron
• Act of Darkness, John Peale Bishop
• Aeneas Africanus, Harry Stillwell Edwards
• Affair of the Heart, Margaret Long
• All About H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
• Anaconda, Jerry Bumpus
• The Asiatics, Frederic Prokosch
• At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien
• Auto-da-fe, Elias Canetti
• The Barbary Light, P.H. Newby
• Belchamber, Howard Sturgis
• Best Stories of Wilbur Daniel Steele, Wilbur Daniel Steele
• Beyond the Desert, Eugene Manlove Rhodes
• The Break-up of Our Camp and Other Stories, Paul Goodman
• The Brick Foxhole, Richard Brooks
• The Butterfly, James M. Cain
• The By-stander, Albert J. Guerard
• The Candy Butcher’s Farewell, Lester Goran
• The Cannibal, John Hawkes
• Cards of Identity, Nigel Dennis
• The Case of Mr Crump, Ludwig Lewisohn
• Castaway, James Gould Cozzens
• The Castle of Argol, Julien Gracq
• Casualty, Robert Lowry
• The Chain in the Heart, Hubert Creekmore
• Character and Situation, Christopher Sykes
• Children of God, Vardis Fisher
• The Closest Kin There Is, Clara Winston
• Company K, William March
• The Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo
• The Cross and the Arrow, Albert Maltz
• The Damnation of Theron Ware, Harold Frederic
• A Dancer in Darkness, David Stacton
• The Dark Journey, Julian Green
• Dayspring, Harry Sylvester
• The Death and Birth of David Markand, Waldo Frank
• The Death Ship, B. Traven
• Debby (The Goblins Must Go Barefoot), Max Steele
• The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, Frederick William Rolfe (Baron Corvo)
• Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
• The Dim View, Basil Heatter
• The Disguises of Love, Robie Macauley
• The Disinherited, Jack Conroy
• Down All Your Streets, Leonard Bishop
• The Eater of Darkness, Robert Coates
• The Embezzlers, Valentine Kataev
• Envy, Yuri Karlovitch Olyesha
• Equinox, Allan Seager
• The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Hean (and the Mystery of Mr. Daunt): A Romance of Tasmania, William Hay
• Eustace and Hilda, L.P. Hartley
• The Fall of the King, Johannes V. Jensen
• The Fathers, Allan Tate
• Ferelith, Victor Alexander Sereld Hey
• Firecrackers, Carl Van Vechten
• Fires on the Plain, Shohei Ooka
• The Forge, T.S. Stribling
• The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, Henry Handle Richardson
• Fowlers End, Gerald Kersh
• The Freebooters, Robert Wernick
• Full Fathom Five, John Stewart Carter
• Gandle Follows His Nose, Heywood Broun
• The Garden, Yves Berger
• Garretson Chronicle, Gerald Warner Brace
• The Gesture, John Cobb
• The Goblins of Eros, Warren Eyster
• The Golden Weather, Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
• Great Circle, Conrad Aiken
• The Great Fortune, Olivia Manning
• The Green Child, Herbert Read
• The Hands of Esau, Hiram Haydn
• The Harbor, Ernest Poole
• The Hawk’s Done Gone, Mildred Haun
• Heathen Valley, Romulus Linney
• Her Privates We, Frederic Manning
• The Hermit Place, Mark Schorer
• Heroes and Orators, Robert Phelps
• The House of Certain Death, Albert Cossery
• House of Liars, Elsa Morante
• How the Old Woman Got Home, Matthew Phipps Shiel
• Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker, Silas Weir Mitchell
• If I Have Four Apples, Josephine Lawrence
• I’m Not Stiller, Max Frisch
• Indelible, Elliot Paul
• The Innocent, Madison Jones
• Islandia, Austin Tappan Wright
• Israel Rank, Roy Horniman
• It Was the Nightingale, Henry Williamson
• The Itching Parrot, J.J. Fernandez de Lizardi
• Journal of Albion Moonlight, Kenneth Patchen
• Kit O’Brien, Edgar Lee Master
• The Lady or the Tiger? And Other Stories, Frank Stockton
• The Last Puritan, George Santayana
• The Last Voyage, Jorge Semprun
• The Late Risers, Their Masquerade, Bernard Wolfe
• The Left Bank, Jean Rhys
• A Long Day’s Dying, Frederick Buechner
• Lord Grizzly, Frederick Manfred
• A Lost King, Raymond De Capite
• Lucifer with a Book, John Horne Burns
• The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis
• The Man Who Killed the Deer, Frank Waters
• The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
• Meg, Theodora Keogh
• The Middle of the Journey, Lionel Trilling
• Milkbottle H, Gil Orlovitz
• Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Marguerite Young
• Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty, John William De Forest
• The Moon and the Bonfire, Cesare Pavese
• Moon-calf, Floyd Dell
• Mr. Weston’s Good Wine, T.F. Powys
• Mrs. Egg and Other Americans, Thomas Beer
• My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, Cardoc Evans
• The Native Moment, Anthony West
• Never Call Retreat, Joseph Freeman
• Night of the Hunter, Davis Grubb
• Night Unto Night, Philip Wylie
• Nightwood, Djuna Barnes
• Not By the Door, James B. Hall
• Nothing is Sacred, Josephine Herbst
• The Nowhere City, Alison Lurie
• On Troublesome Creek, James Still
• One of the Children is Crying, Coleman Dowell
• Only One Storm, Granville Hicks
• The Outward Room, Millen Brand
• The Palm-Wine Drinkard, Amos Tutuola
• The Pencil of God, Pierre Marcelin
• Pictures for an Institution, Randall Jarrell
• Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson
• A Place on Earth, Wendell Berry
• The Poison Tree, Walter Clemons
• Portrait of Jennie, Robert Nathan
• The Postman, Roger Martin du Gard
• Prancing Nigger, Ronald Firbank
• Red Dawn, Pio Baroja
• The Revelations of Dr. Modesto, Alan Harrington
• Revenge for Love, Wyndham Lewis
• A Ride on the Milky Way, Marguerite Dorian
• The Rock Pool, Cyril Connolly
• Roman Pictures, Percy Lubbock
• The Running of the Deer, Dan Wickenden
• Save Me the Waltz, Zelda Fitzgerald
• A Scots Quair, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
• The Secret in the Daisy, Carol Grace
• The Seven Who Fled, Frederic Prokosch
• Shadows of Men, Jim Tully
• The Simple Truth, Elizabeth Hardwick
• The Sleepwalker, Herman Broch
• The Spider’s House, Paul Bowles
• A Sport and a Pastime, James Salter
• St. Petersburg, Andrey Bely
• Stoner, John Williams
• The Store, T.S. Stribling
• The Street, Ann Petry
• Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise, David Phillips
• Tell Me a Riddle, Tillie Olsen
• This is Adam, Brainard Cheney
• Thunder on the Left, Christopher Morley
• The Time of Man, Elizabeth Madox Roberts
• Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
• Trio, Dorothy Baker
• The Trouble of One House, Brendan Gill
• Tucker’s People, Ira Wolfert
• The Twelve Chairs, Ilf and Petrov
• Unfinished Cathedral, T.S. Stribling
• The Velvet Horn, Andrew Lytle
• Victorine, Maude Hutchins
• The Victory, Vincent McHugh
• Voyage to Acturus, David Lindsay
• A Walk in the Sun, Harry Brown
• War, Ludwig Renn
• Warlock, Oakley Hall
• The Watchful Gods and Other Stories, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• The Water Music and Other Stories, Glynn Jons
• The Wave, Evelyn Scott
• We Too Are Drifting, Gale Wilhelm
• The Weight of the Cross, Robert O. Bowen
• Welcome Darkness, Leon Statham
• We’ll to the Woods No More, Edouard Dujardin
• Werther’s Younger Brother, Michael Fraenkel
• The White Hound, Thomas Mabry and Ward Dorrance
• White Mule, William Carlos Williams
• A Winter in Geneva and Other Stories, Anne Goodwin Winslow
• A Woman of Means, Peter Taylor
• The Works of Love, Wright Morris
• Yesterday’s Son, William E. Wilson
• Young Cranshaw, Cecil Hemley