These things always make me wish I'd been born an upper-class avant-garde artist in the 1920s.
Join the club!
There were a lot of books, including a textbooks by Havelock Ellis; a book "about" Joyce's Ulysses which contained lengthy extracts and had evidently been published so people living in countries where the original was banned could at least read parts of it; and an account by some people who called themselves the Three Hours for Lunch Club of their experiences renovating a 19th-century theatre in Hoboken and staging Victorian shows for the ironic enjoyment of Jazz-age audiences.
(a) That sounds like an excellent library for a sprawling, ramshackle, 1920's house.
(b) The Three Hours for Lunch Club is famous! I recognize several of those names.
no subject
Join the club!
There were a lot of books, including a textbooks by Havelock Ellis; a book "about" Joyce's Ulysses which contained lengthy extracts and had evidently been published so people living in countries where the original was banned could at least read parts of it; and an account by some people who called themselves the Three Hours for Lunch Club of their experiences renovating a 19th-century theatre in Hoboken and staging Victorian shows for the ironic enjoyment of Jazz-age audiences.
(a) That sounds like an excellent library for a sprawling, ramshackle, 1920's house.
(b) The Three Hours for Lunch Club is famous! I recognize several of those names.