Edith de Born and the Sense of Foreignness
“Have you heard of the lady who writes under the name Edith de Born — an Austrian-Hungarian-Jewess I suspect – married to a French banker called Bisch?” Evelyn Waugh asked his friend Nancy Mitford in …
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The Penalty of Exile, by Edith de Born (1964)
The Penalty of Exile demonstrates that although Edith de Born had a reputation for writing books that, in Peter Ackroyd’s words, “one can recommend to one’s grandmother,” she didn’t always stick to grandmotherly topics. Within …
State of Possession, by Edith de Born (1963)
State of Possession represents Edith de Born at mid-career. Her first novel, Gaëtan, was published in 1950; her last (of 18), The Negligent Daughter, in 1978. And yet, having read all three books, I have …
Gaëtan, or The Stock-Taking, by Edith de Born (1950)
“Gaëtan consists of a 100-page discussion between the wife and the mistress of a Frenchman who has been killed in a car accident,” wrote Julian Symons in his terse review of Edith de Born’s first …
Pull Devil, Pull Baker, by Stella Benson and Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec De Savine
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Find Out More · Locate a Copy Excerpt [The Count:] At Cracow I stop at the Hotel de France. There I soon make the acquentance of the jeunesse doré …
The Eighth Day, by Thornton Wilder
· Excerpt · Editor’s Comments · Comments · Find Out More · Locate a Copy Excerpt From the first, Lansing admired John Ashley and imitated him, stumbingly. He went so far as to pretend that …
English as a Second Language: Following in Conrad’s Footsteps
Reviews of Selina Hasting’s new biography of Sybille Bedford, who was born Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck in Charlottenburg, Germany and forced to live as an exile starting in the late 1930s due to her …
Farewell My Heart, by Ferenc Molnar (1945)
I found a copy of Ferenc Molnar’s little novel Farewell My Heart in Ravenswood Used Books while visiting Chicago recently. It was the sort of book that’s easy to miss on a shelf: no dust …
Wilding Graft by Jack Clemo (1948)
This is a guest post by Louis Hemmings. It’s not every day that you might turn on a television without referring to any guides and get to see a dramatised documentary based on a mystical, …
The Red House, by Else Jerusalem (1932)
Catching up with my friend the Dutch translator and publisher (Van Maaskant Haun) Meta Gemert, I learned about a neglected Austrian best-seller from over 100 years ago that’s beginning to experience a comeback: Else Jerusalem’s …
Some Candidates for the #1920Club
Next week, folks around the world will be taking part in a unique collective reading event: #1920Club, the next installment of a semi-annual celebration organized some five years ago by Karen (Kaggsy) and Simon Thomas. …
On Pilgrimage: a Dialogue with Kate Macdonald
About the time I was well into reading through Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage a couple of months ago, I discovered that Kate Macdonald, Visiting Fellow at the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading …
Ouida: Good or Bad, but Never Indifferent
The name of Ouida has been vaguely familiar to me ever since I saw Under Two Flags on the list of Classics Illustrated comic books. Somewhere in the course of studying English literature, I assimilated …
Isabel Paterson on Four Neglected Books by Women
In this year of reading the work of women writers, I should take a moment to note the remarks of Isabel Paterson, whose 1933 novel, Never Ask the End, was one of the earliest neglected …
Ambrosia and Small Beer, arranged by Christopher Hassall
The delight of reading John Guest’s Broken Images, which I posted about recently, led me to look for his other works. A short search, as his few other publications were collections of other people’s work. …
The New Republic (1934)
“Good Books That Almost Nobody Has Read” and “More About Neglected Books,” from The New Republic magazine, 1934 In early 1934, Malcolm Cowley, then literary editor of the New Republic magazine, sent out a series …