AUTOBIOBIOGRAPHY (EXCERPTS):
The Books in Bill Yarrow's House:
In the Order on His Shelves

Shelf One (Family Room)

Joubert's Pensees, The Pocket RLS, Sesame and Lilies (Ruskin), The Observer's Book of Architecture, Harold and the Purple Crayon; Harold's Trip to the Moon (Crockett Johnson), Autopsy on Surrealism (Vallejo), Epictetus' Discourses, Imaginary Conversations (Landon), Sartor Resartus (Carlyle), Essays and Sketches (Leigh Hunt), Literary Essays (Macaulay), Winterslow (Hazlitt), The President's War Message April 2, 1917, Erewhon (Butler), Carry on Jeeves! (Wodehouse), A Shorter Froissart, The Flea of Sodom (Dahlberg), Confessions of a Young Man (George Moore), Up Stream (Lewisohn), Love (de Maupassant), The Seven That Were Hanged (Andreyev), God's Little Acre (Caldwell), Sapho (Daudet) + Manon Lescaut (Abbe Prevost), The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Painted Veils (Huneker), The Compleat Angler (Walton), Euphues (Lyly), Dr Johnson and His Circle (Bailey), Past and Present (Carlyle), Jeffrey's Literary Criticism, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Evelina (Burney), Biographia Literaria (Coleridge), Laocoon (Lessing), Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Newman), Literary Studies (Bagehot, 2 vols.), Cowper, On the Art of Reading (Quiller-Couch), King Alfred's Version of the Consolations of Boethius

Shelf Three (Family Room)

The Journals of Sir Walter Scott (2 vols.), The Journal of Arnold Bennett, Chicago Restaurants (Zagat, 2002), The Permanent Goethe, Professional Secrets (Coctaeu), The Art of Reading (Orage), The War Diaries (Sartre), Musee du Jeu de Paume, The Tate Gallery, Mrs. Paine's Garage (Mallon, signed), Science, Liberty, and Peace (Huxley), Readers and Writers (Orage), On the Art of Writing (Quiller-Couch), In the Land of Pain (Daudet, trans. Julien Barnes, signed), The Works of Doyle, The Arabian Nights, Party Going (Henry Green), The Louvre, The Diary of a Nobody (Grossmith and Grossmith) When I Was Old (Simenon), Lyton Strachey and the Bloomsbury Group (Holroyd), Walk With Me (Naomi Danis)

Shelf Fourteen (Basement)

Plays by Leonid Andreyev, A Vision (Yeats), The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists (Excluding Shakespeare), Chief Pre-Shakespearean Drama, The Passionate Playgoer (Oppenheimer), In Search of Theatre (Bentley), The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, If This is a Man (Primo Levi), Translations from the Chinese (Arthur Waley), V.S. Pritchett: The Complete Collected Essays, The Prelude: Text of 1805 (Wordsworth), Hours in a Library (Leslie Stephen, 3 vols.), The Book of the It; The Unkonwn Self; The World of Man (George Groddeck), A Passage to India (Forster), The Orange Man (Berton Roueche), Mortal Lessons; Confessions of a Knife (Richard Seltzer), Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress (Beckett, et. al.), Modigliani: A Memoir (Andre Salmon), The Conquest of Mexico (Prescott), The Psychoanalysis of Fire (Bachelard)

Shelf Twelve (Basement)

The American Language; Supplement One; Supplement Two; The American Scene; In Defense of Women; Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days in one volume (H. L. Mencken), Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy, Cowper's Poetical Works, Shakespeare Spenser Donne (Kermode), Operation Shylock (Roth), Russian Thinkers (Isaiah Berlin), Elizabethan and Metaphysical Poetry (Rosamond Tuve), The Diary of Samuel Pepys (2 vols.), Jubilate Agno; Poems (Smart), Ends and Means; Texts and Pretexts (Huxley), History of the Jews (M. A. Burke), Whittier's Poems, Principles of Political Economy (Mill, 2 vols.), Crabb's English Synonyms

Shelf Eight (Computer Room)

A Smattering of Ignorance (Levant), The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit, and Humour of Sydney Smith (Hesketh Pearson), Going Around in Academic Circles (Armour), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (Schwartz), Present Indicative (Coward), Invisible Cities (Calvino), Darkness Visible (Styron), Music for Chameleons (Capote), The Spectra Hoax (Smith), A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis; The Question of Lay Analysis; Civilization and its Discontents; On Creativity and the Unconscious: Papers on the Psychology of Art, Literature, Love, Religion; Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Freud), The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover; Blast From the Past (Kinky Friedman), Keep It Crisp, Chicken Inspector No. 23; The Ill-Tempered Clavichord; The Last Laugh; The Rising Gorge, Westward, Ha! (Perelman), Young Man Luther (Ericson), Freud's Vienna and Other Essays (Bettelheim), As the Story was Told (Beckett), Some Champions (Ring Lardner), Sylvie and Bruno (Lewis Carroll), Burmese Days (Orwell), Woody Sez (Woody Guthrie), Hope Against Hope (Nadezhda Mandelstam), A Change of Heart (Butor), Leftover Life to Kill (Caitlin Thomas), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Hurston), 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Joe Miller's Jests, A Story Teller's Story (Sherwood Anderson), The Story of My Misfortunes (Abelard), Autobiography (Mill), An Artist Grows Up in Mexico: Scenes from the Boyhood of Diego Rivera (Brenner), Jefferson (Nock), The Passionate Years (Crosby), A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers (Thoreau), Journal of Rehearsals (Fowlie), Mulligan Stew (Sorrentino), One Writer's Beginnings (Welty), The Artist in New York (Orozco), Not Quite Posthumous Letter to My Daughter (Caitlin Thomas), Living My Life (volume one, Emma Goldman), Rich Man, Poor Man, Freud, and Fruit (Alexander King), Tolstoy Remembered: By His Son (Sergei Tolstoy), Testament of Youth; Testament of Experience (Vera Britten), I Remember (Pasternak), On Overgrown Paths (Hamsun), Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Mary McCarthy), Henry Miller: In Conversation with George Belmont, The Days of Dylan Thomas (Read and McKenna), Because I Was Flesh; The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg (Dahlberg), Turgenev's Literary Reminiscences, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Andreyev (Gorky), Down and In: Life in the Underground (Sukenick), Aubrey's Brief Lives, Unreliable Memoirs (Clive James), Memoirs of Montparnesse (Glassco), Malcolm Lowry: Psalms and Songs (Margerie Lowry), A Walker in the City (Kazin), Dylan Thomas in America (Brinnin), The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens (2 vols.), Stravinsky: An Autobiography, My Life in Art (Stanislavski), The Life of Raymond Chandler (McShane), The Last Days of The New Yorker (Mahon), Tiger Lilies (Fielding Dawson), While Rome Burns (Wolcott), You're Entitle'; Enjoy, Enjoy! (Golden), Memoirs of Shelley and Other Essays and Reviews; Nightmare Abbey, The Misfortunes of Elphin, Crotchet Castle (in one volume); Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey (in one volume) (Peacock), Lectures in America (Gertrude Stein), A Leg to Stand On; The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Sacks), Jack's Book: An Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac (Gifford and Lee), Memoirs of My Life (Gibbon), Confessions of an Actor (Olivier), The Arabian Nights Entertainments, On Not Being Able to Paint (Field), The Gentle Art of Making Enemies (Whistler), Pop. 1280; The Getaway; Now on Earth (Jim Thompson), The Magician's Feastletters (Wakowski), Way West (Dorn), Revenge of the Lawn (Brautigan), Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard P. Feynman), Less Than Zero (Ellis), This Gun for Hire, The Confidential Agent, The Ministry of Fear (in one volume, Graham Greene), The Penguin Complete Father Brown (Chesterton)

Shelf Nine (Computer Room) Hardback

The Death of Virgil; The Sleepwalkers (Broch), Astragal (Sarrazin), Our Golden Ironburg; The Burn (Aksyonov), The Queue (Sorokin), Explosion in a Cathedral (Carpentier), The Island of Crimea (Aksyonov), Kangaroo (Aleshkov), Maigret and the Madwoman (Simenon), A Russian Schoolboy (Aksakov), Glory; King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov), Group Portrait With Lady (Boll), Hesitant Fire: Selected Prose (Max Jacob), The Lunbeberg Variation (Maurensig), Freud and Man's Soul (Bettelheim), Nineteenth Century German Tales (ed. Flores), Montauk (Frisch), Days and Nights (Simonov), El Senor Presidente (Asturias), Lost Illusions (Balzac), Yordim (Lev), The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange; A Season in the Life of Emmanuel (Blais), A View by the Sea (Shotaro), The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal), The Quintessence of G.B.S. (Shaw), The Life of the Bee (Maeterlinck), The Goose Man; Gold (Wasserman), The Ring is Closed; Vagabonds (Hamsun); Conversations with Goethe (Eckermann), Wit, Wisdom, Poetry (Heine), Little Novels (Schnitzler), The Flame of Life (two versions, D'Annuzio), The Cat's Bridge (Sudermann), The Fisher Maiden (Bjornson), The Absolute at Large (Capek), Dictionary of the Khazars (2 vols. Pavic), The Shorter Novels of Dostoyevsky, Married to Tolstoy (Asquith), The Last Days of Mankind; No Compromise: Selected Writings (Kraus), The Incomparable Max (Beerbohm), The Fool in Christ: Emmanuel (Hauptmann), Wedlock (Wassermann), Disenchanted (Loti), A Night in the Luxembourg (De Gourmont), Death on the Installment Plan (Celine), The Collected Works of Pierre Louys, Three Marchen (E. T. A. Hoffmann), The Dance of Life; Affirmation; My Life (Havelock Ellis), Room Temperature (Nicholson Baker), Life Among the Surrealists (Josephson), The Autobiography of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (vol. 2), Essays in Stylistic Analysis (ed. Babb), Brave Men (Ernie Pyle), Almost Transparent Blue (Murakami), The Poor Mouth (Flann O'Brien), Interpretations of Life (Will and Ariel Durant)

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