Did you even know about these? The first was written by J.R.R. Tolkien to his children in 1920, and the collection was edited by Baillie Tolkien. (The last one, too, appears in the collection, although it's just a sampling of the oeuvre.) I discovered it this past autumn,
Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim 1976 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990 I'd never heard of this book until I read Gina Ochsner's The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight (2009). There is a link on her website, to an interview, in which
Now if I had read Vere Hodgson's diaries when they first arrived, I would have realized sooner that my edition of Few Eggs and No Oranges was incomplete. I'm missing quite a selection of pages (564-5, 568-9, 572-3, 576-7, 580-1, 584-5, 588-9) which is doubly disappointing because it's from the
Vere Hodgson's Few Eggs and No Oranges: 1940-45 Persephone No. 9 (1999) Ironically, it was not a book -- Persephone or otherwise -- that settled my debate about which Persephones to read for Persephone week. It was the combination of my having responded so strongly to Pat Barker's Regeneration series
