Part 8 (1/2)
LEVERIDGE, RALPH. _Walk on the Water._ Farrar, 1951, pbr tct _The Last Combat_, Signet 1952, Pyramid 1959, (m).
LEWIS, WYNDHAM. _The Apes of G.o.d._ N. Y., R. M. McBride & Co, 1932, London, Arthur Press 1950, London, Arco, 1955. Satire, including sharp studies of h.o.m.os.e.xuality, male and female.
LIN, HAZEL. _The Moon Vow._ Pageant Press, 1958. A Chinese woman psychiatrist, attempting to solve a patient's problems, is led into seamy byways of Peking, including a somewhat gruesome lesbian cult.
LINDOPS, AUDREY ERSKINE. _The Outer Ring._ Appleton 1955, pbr Popular Library tct _The Tormented_. (m)
LINGSTROM, FREDA. _Axel._ Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1939.
Wealthy man adopts two boys and a girl. One boy, Valentine, has h.o.m.os.e.xual affair with an older boy, Teddy, who later commits suicide; the girl, Auriol, studying music in Germany, lives with 2 older women, one of whom is very innocently but very ardently in love with her. Well-written.
LIPSKY, ELEAZAR. _The Scientists._ Appleton-Century-Crofts 1959, pbr Pocket Books, 1960. Minor character in a long novel is a vaguely treated, but explicit lesbian.
LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among the beat generation, including all kinds of h.o.m.os.e.xuality.
LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).
_Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.
LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948, (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.
LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935.
Purple-pa.s.saged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.
+ LOFTS, NORAH. _Ja.s.sy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others.
Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who, herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in emphasis. In a girl's school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin, Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns to Ja.s.sy for undemanding friends.h.i.+p and Mrs. Twysdale connives to have her expelled-which spurs Katherine to precipitate a long-desired break with her.
_The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was h.o.m.os.e.xual.
+ LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Sat.u.r.day._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam 1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief study of a woman's acceptance of a variant friends.h.i.+p (the sections t.i.tled GLADYS).
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.
+ LOUS, 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 cla.s.sic 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 t.i.tle 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.