Friday, March 4, 2022

Novels and Novelties: The Shadow Library Re-Organized

 

The Pyrates* … George Macdonald Fraser

Chatterton … Peter Ackroyd

The House of Dr. Dee … Peter Ackroyd

The Lambs of London … Peter Ackroyd    

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair … John Bossy

Masters of Atlantis … Charles Portis

The Old Man and Mr. Smith … Peter Ustinov


The Liar … Stephen Fry

The Hippopotamus … Stephen Fry

Boy’s Life … Robert McCammon

Looking for the King … David C. Downing

The Voyage of the Destiny … Robert Nye


Arthur Rex* … Thomas Berger              

 Regiment of Women, Little Big Man … Thomas Berger

Ficciones … Jorge Luis Borges

King Jesus … Robert Graves

Brideshead Revisited … Evelyn Waugh

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage … Richard Holmes

Rude Tales and Glorious … Nicholas Seare


Clouds and Eclipses … Gore Vidal

The City and The Pillar and Seven Early Stories … Gore Vidal

Williwaw … Gore Vidal

Myra Breckenridge and Myra … Gore Vidal

Julian … Gore Vidal


Outer Dark; The Road; All the Pretty Horses; Blood Meridian … Cormac McCarthy

The Letters of Herman Melville … Merrell R. Davis & William H. Gilman

Ulysses … James Joyce

Watch the Northwind Rise … Robert Graves

The Queen’s Conjuror … Benjamin Woolley

Don Quixote de La Mancha … Cervantes

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories … Nikolai Gogol

The Basic Kafka … Franz Kafka


Oliver Twist … Charles Dickens

The Old Curiosity Shop … Charles Dickens

Beautiful Losers … Leonard Cohen

The Name of the Rose … Umberto Eco

A Confederacy of Dunces … John Kennedy Toole


A Collection of Essays (2) … George Orwell


Not necessarily fantasies, but there are a lot of Historical Romances and Satirical Re-Imaginings and different ideas about about seeing the world from an alternate view. Which just goes to show I'll try books with a little fantastical seasoning. And a few are just plain-de-old Literature.

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