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Essays and reviews: various drafts

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Includes the following pieces published in the United States and United Kingdom: Winter Blood by J Roc, The Legend of Joseph Nokato by L. P. Bachmann, Murder at the Savoy by M. Sjowal, Event 1000 by D. Lavalee. Rabbit Redux by J. Updike, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things by G. Sorrentino, Into Your Tent I'll Creep by P. DeVries, The Professor's Daughter by P. P. Read, In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul, The Condor Passes by S. A. Grau, The Abduction by M. Kumin, The Rose Rabbi by D. Stern, A Start in Life by A. Sillitoe, What Became of Jane Austen? by K. Amis, Tussy is Me by M. Hastings, Lighter than a Feather by D. Westheimer, Ourselves by J. Strong, The World without Women by V. Martini, From Columbus to Castro by E. Williams, The Autobiography of an Unknown South African by N. Mokgatle, Stories and Prose Poems by A. Solzhenitsyn, Way Uptown in Another World by S. Stevens, A Dutiful Daughter by T. Kenneally, The Other by T. Tryon, A Peep into the 20th Century by C. Davis, The Season of the Witch by J. L. Herlihy, Levkas Mann by H. Innes, Blue Dreams by W. Hanley, The Potlatch Run by W. Price, Love in the Ruins by W. Percy, Caliban's Filibuster by P. West, Bound to Violence by Y. Ouologuem, Ali and Nino by K. Said, Eisenhower My Eisenhower by J. Charyn, The Masked Men by A. Fakinos.

Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date
1971
Call number
mssTheroux
Creator
Theroux, Paul(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Joint purchase and gift from Paul Theroux, 2016.
Purchased in part by the Library Collector's Council from Paul Theroux, January 16, 2016.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED: Box 140a: fragile, cannot be paged until conserved. Box 141: housed in cold storage; extended retrieval and delivery time required.
SEALED: Boxes 142-149: sealed per donor's request until January 1, 2040.
NOT AVAILABLE: Born-digital items: 2 CDs in box 38 (1); CD in box 99 (11); 2 CDs in box 105 (9); DVD in box 122 (47); CD in box 131 (8); 2 CDs in box 139 (18). Not available for paging until reformatted. Please contact Reader Services for more information.
Associated people
Auchincloss, Eve. (1910-1993.)
De Vries, Peter, (1904-1991.)
Drabble, Margaret, 1939- (1932-2018.)
Gordimer, Nadine. (1933-2015.)
Greene, Graham, (1909-1995.)
Gregory, Blanche C. (1925-2006.)
Naipaul, V. S.
Raban, Jonathan.
Sacks, Oliver,
Spark, Muriel.
Spender, Stephen,
Styron, William,
Waugh, Auberon.
Associated organizations
Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
Peace Corps (U.S.).
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