Other Books Received

Allen, Roger, ed. Modern Arabic Literature. New York: Ungar, 1987. 403 pp. $75.00.

Asher, Helen. Tilly's Fortunes. New York: Penguin, 1986. 150 pp. pb. $4.95.

Barbalet, Margaret. Blood in the Rain. New York: Penguin, 1986. 204 pp. pb. $5.95.

Barnard, Marjorie. "The Persimmon Tree" and Other Stories. 1985. New York: Virago-Penguin, 1986. 182 pp. pb. $6.95.

Boyd, Martin. The Picnic. 1937. New York: Penguin, 1986. 314 pp. pb. $5.95.

Daemmrich, Horst S., and Ingrid Daemmrich. Themes and Motifs in Western Literature: A Handbook. Tübingen: Francke, 1987. 255 pp. 68 DM cloth; pb. 48 DM.

Dark, Eleanor. Lantana Lane. 1959. New York: Virago-Penguin, 1986. 254 pp. pb. $6.95.

———. The Little Company. 1945. New York: Virago-Penguin, 1986. 319 pp. pb. $6.95.

Falkiner, Suzanne. Rain in the Distance. New York: Penguin, 1986. 163 pp. pb. $5.95.

Gray, Stephen, ed. The Penguin Book of Southern African Stories. New York: Penguin, 1985. 328 pp. pb. $5.95.

Gee, Maurice. Collected Stories. 1975. New York: Penguin, 1986. 226 pp. pb. $6.95.

Guinness, Gerald, and Andrew Hurley, eds. Auctor Ludens: Essays on Play in Literature. Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1986. 204 pp. $32.00 cloth; pb. $20.00.

Humphries, Jefferson. Losing the Text: Readings in Literary Desire. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1986. 218 pp. $25.00.

Jolley, Elizabeth. Foxybaby. 1985. New York: Penguin, 1986. 261 pp. pb. $5.95.

———. Woman in a Lampshade. New York: Penguin, 1983. 229 pp. pb. $6.95.

Jose, Nicholas. Feathers or Lead. New York: Penguin, 1986. 162 pp. pb. $5.95.

McQueen, James. The Floor of Heaven. New York: Penguin, 1986. 445 pp. pb. $7.95.

Morrieson, Ronald Hugh. Predicament. 1974. New York: Penguin, 1986. 248 pp. pb. $4.95.

Nathan, Rhoda B., ed. Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World. Contributions in Women's Studies 69. Westport: Greenwood, 1986. 275 pp. $35.00.

Papellinas, George. Ikons. New York: Penguin, 1986. 198 pp. pb. $4.95.

Parkinson, Michael H. The Rural Novel: Jeremias Gotthelf, Thomas Hardy, C. F. Ramuz. New York: Lang, 1984. 284 pp. pb. No price given.

Stow, Randolph. Visitants. 1979. New York: Taplinger, 1987. 189 pp. pb. $7.95.

Wolfe, Gary K. Critical Terms for Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Glossary and Guide to Scholarship. New York: Greenwood, 1986. 198 pp. $35.00.

Xueqin, Cao, and Gao E. The Story of the Stone, Volume Five: The Dreamer Wakes. Trans. John Minford. New York: Penguin, 1986. 383 pp. pb. $8.95.