by Nella Larsen
0-486-43727-2
THE PATH TO ROME, Hilaire Belloc. This 1902 memoir abounds in lively vignettes from a vanished time, recounting a pilgrimage on foot across the Alps and Apennines in order to “see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved.” 77 of the author’s original line drawings complement his sparkling prose. 272pp. 5 x 8½.
0-486-44001-X
THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS: Prince of Abissinia, Samuel Johnson. Distinguished English writer attacks eighteenth-century optimism and man’s unrealistic estimates of what life has to offer. 112pp. 5 x 8½.
0-486-44094-X
A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, David Lindsay. A brilliant flight of pure fancy, where wild creatures crowd the fantastic landscape and demented torturers dominate victims with their bizarre mental powers. 272pp. 5 x 8½.
0-486-44198-9
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1 Nella Larsen, Novelist of the Harlem Renaissance: A Woman’s Life Unveiled, by Thadious M. Davis (Louisiana State University Press, 1996).
2 See Davis, op. cit., for the intriguing, well-reasoned suggestion that Walker and Larson might actually have been the same person.
3 Quoted in Davis, op. cit.
4 Quoted in Charles R. Larson, “Whatever Happened to Nella Larsen?” Belles Lettres, IV (Spring 1989), 15.