Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
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Checklist: A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians.
Fiction -- Bibliography; Paraphilias in literature -- Bibliography
LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs
pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of
his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.
_69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can
call it that, in Greenwich Village.
+ LOUŸS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the
standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of
Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon
paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian
courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis
and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one
another.
_The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly
risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand
wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except
his daughter, Aline—who eventually runs away with a “boy” who is
really a girl.
_The Songs of Bilitis._ As above. Prose or poetry, depending on
translation, and perhaps the classic story of lesbianism in an
ancient setting.
LUCAS, RICK. _Dreamboat._ pbo, Berkley, 1956, 1957. scv.
LYNDON, BAREE, and Jimmie Sangster. _The Man who Could Cheat
Death_, based on the screenplay, for the recent movie, which in
turn was based on a play, The Man in Half Moon Street. Without
the fantastic photography which made the movie superb, this is a
remarkably silly pseudo-science thing about a man who finds away
to survive indefinitely by glandular transplants. To camouflage
his deathlessness he pulls up his roots and moves every ten years
and during one such interlude he falls for beautiful Avril Barnes,
who turns out to be a lesbian. He converts her, and she becomes
such a pest that he murders her. Shocker, silly.
MacCOWN, EUGENE. _The Siege of Innocence._ Doubleday, 1950, (m).
And minor lesbian element.
MacKENZIE, COMPTON. _Extraordinary Women._ Martin Secker, London;
Macy-Masius N. Y. 1928, hcr New Adelphi 1932. The Winston Book
Service offered this for sale quite recently. Amusing, satirical
and well-known novel of lesbians.
_The Vestal Fire._ N. Y. Doran, 1927, (m). However, in this novel
of Americans living abroad, there are also important lesbian
characters.
MacRAE, KEVIN. _Nikki._ Vantage. 1955. Not to be confused with the
rubbishy book by the same title by Stuart Friedman, this is a
story of Nikki, who loses her beloved in an air raid in London and
nearly cracks up before finding a home in a lesbian “colony” in
Southern California; silly, but a lot of fun.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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