+ LOUYS, 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.[37] 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.
+ MacINNES, COLIN. Absolute Beginners. London, MacGibbon & Rae, 1959. A novel about London teenagers, told in Soho idiom—a sort of bastard hip-talk. The characters in this novel include several male homosexuals, and one lesbian, Big Jill. Enough space is devoted to social problems, by an author who is quite obviously one of the “angry young men”, to give this novel real status.