Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Red Room | The sequel to this Flemish writer’s earlier The Illusions (sp) (1952) continues the conflict between young Helene and Tamara, now her step-mother for
Truman Capote | Breakfast At Tiffany’s | With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, she is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her b
Vance Bourjaily | The End Of My Life | When Thomas “Skinner” Galt leaves Greenwich Village to volunteer as an ambulance driver with the British Army, he anticipates the adventure of a lifet
Sylvia Bertin | The Last Innocence (La Dernière Innocence) | Story of Paula, a member of a French provincial family. “The refreshing thing is that Paula is treated as a matter of course … that she wears trouse
Elizabeth Bowen | The Hotel | A shy young girl sent to catch a husband at a fashionable hotel is, instead, captivated by a sophisticated woman. When the young Miss Sydney falls und
Myron Brinig | The Looking Glass Heart | Beautiful Sally Greenshields has grown accustomed to be spoiled. Her striking green eyes and stuffing good looks are traded for accommodations made fo
Archibald Clavering Gunter; Fergus Redmond | A Florida Enchantment | Lilly Travers is an independent woman who likes to dance with other women and for whom ‘eternal vigilance means safety from discovery.’ At a dance, Li
Struthers Burt | Entertaining The Islanders | Sophisticated, satirical, novel in which a man becomes aware that his ex-sweetheart has been captivated by another woman
