The Dusty Bookcase

A follow-up to last week's post on A Japanese Nightingale .   On 19 November 1903, A Japanese Nightingale , dramatist William Young'...

A brief addendum to last week's post on Basil King's 1912 novel The Street Called Straight .    Seven Basil King novels have made it...

The Street Called Straight By the author of The Inner Shrine [Basil King] New York: Harper, 1912 415 pages Olivia Guion seems a most dislik...

An addendum to last week's post on Beyond the Rocks by Elinor Glyn . A lost film found! I first read about  Beyond the Rocks in univer...

Beyond the Rocks: A Love Story Elinor Glyn New York: Macaulay, [1922] 327 pages In the afterglow of Valentine's Day comes a tale of forb...

An addendum to last week's post on "Woman-handled" by Arthur Stringer .   Much of yesterday was spent reading 'The Surviva...