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Tables of Contents for Literary Lovers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
viii
INTRODUCTION
1
5
ROMANTIC SOULS
6
36
W. Collins
The Woman in White
6
3
M. Corelli
Thelma
9
2
S. de Beauvoir
The Mandarins
11
3
C. Bronte
Villette
14
3
R. Brooke
`Doubts'
17
2
F.S. Fitzgerald
The Last Tycoon
19
3
E. Glyn
Three Weeks
22
3
E. Hemingway
The Garden of Eden
25
3
D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love
28
3
E. Nesbit
The Railway Children
31
3
J.B. Priestley
The Good Companions
34
3
H.G. Wells
Ann Veronica
37
5
INCREDIBLE APPETITES
42
20
R. Burns
The Merry Muses of Caledonia
42
3
G. Casanova
The History of My Life
45
3
F. Harris
My Life and Loves
48
3
G. de Maupassant
`Yvette'
51
2
Marquis de Sade
The Portrait of Mlle de L***
53
3
G. Simenon
The Cat
56
6
LOVE FOR SALE
62
14
A. Bennett
The Pretty Lady
62
2
J. Boswell
London Journal
64
3
H. Miller
Tropic of Cancer
67
3
E. Zola
Nana
70
6
SWEET SEDUCTION
76
18
J. Donne
`To His Mistris Going to Bed'
76
3
G. Flaubert
Madame Bovary
79
4
V. Sackville-West
The Edwardians
83
3
Stendhal
Scarlet and Black
86
3
L. Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
89
5
THE MATRIMONIAL STATE
94
34
Colette
The Cat
94
3
N. Coward
Private Lives
97
3
N. Douglas
South Wind
100
4
G. Eliot
Middlemarch
104
3
F.M. Ford
The Good Soldier
107
3
E.M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread
110
3
R. Graves
`A Slice of Wedding Cake'
113
2
J. Joyce
Ulysses
115
5
S. Pepys
Diary
120
2
L. Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
122
6
REGRETS AND DISILLUSION
128
26
F. Dostoevsky
The Possessed
128
3
D. Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
131
3
S. Johnson
Letter to Hester Thrale
134
3
K. Mansfield
`Bliss'
137
3
Lord Rochester
`The Imperfect Enjoyment'
140
5
J. Swift
`A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed'
145
4
Voltaire
Candide
149
5
LOVE AND LUST
154
H. de Balzac
`The Merrie Diversions of King Louis the Eleventh'
154
5
Lord Byron
Letter to John Murray
159
1
C. Dickens
Oliver Twist
160
4
W.S. Maugham
Cakes and Ale
164
3
M. Proust
A la recherche du temps perdu
167
3
J. J. Rousseau
Confessions
170
3
L. Fleming
Casino Royale
173
4
W. B. Yeats
`His Memories', `Leda and the Swan'
177