| Contents |
The Grand Piano: Before a War -- Conversations Between Mynheer and Horatio -- The Home of Hugo Eliphaz -- Further Conversations Between Mynheer and Horatio -- The Politics of Lothario -- An Aesthetic Romance -- Walpurgisnacht -- A Nocturnal Visit -- Horatio's Diary -- Eliphaz -- S.P.V.-S.V.P. -- The Mastersingers -- An Educational Romance -- An Educational Romance, II -- The Last Page of Horatio's Diary -- The Grand Piano -- The State of Nature: A War -- The Weakness of the Ego -- A Quick, Frank Glance -- The Death of Eliphaz -- A Moody Adolescent -- Steps and Blows -- Two Women: Emily -- Two Women: Laura -- The Dream of Little Gus -- The Strength of the Ego -- On the Rocks Along the River -- The Social Compact -- The Moral Equivalent of War -- Laura's Plan for No Place -- The State of Nature -- The Death of Arthur -- The True Collaboration: I -- Fires -- The End of the War -- The Dead of Spring: After a War -- Our Meeting, 1948 -- A Broadway Crowd -- On the Shore -- A Community of Human Relations -- Horatio's Mourning-Labor -- The Carcases -- Horatio and Rosalind An Urban Pastoral Romance (After Longus) -- Horatio and Rosalind: I -- Horatio and Rosalind: II -- Horatio and Rosalind: III -- Horatio and Rosalind, IV: The Trial -- Horatio and Rosalind, V: Their Marriage -- The Dead of Spring -- The Dead of Spring -- The Dead of Spring, II: Theories -- The Dead of Spring, III: A Memorial Game -- Lothario's Couvade -- The Holy Terror: Modern Times -- Neolithic Rites -- A Synoptic View of Our Middle Years -- Conversing. |
| General note | "This edition is published in paper wrappers; there are 200 hardcover trade copies and 100 numbered deluxe copies; & 22 copies lettered A-V have been handbound in boards by Earle Gray." --Colophon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy Purchased from Oak Knoll Books, 1/15/2023 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Goodman, Paul, 1911-1972. Empire city. Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press, 2001 |
| Genre/form | Romans à clef. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Romans à clef. |
| Genre/form | Romans à clef. |
| LCCN | 2001052801 |
| ISBN | 1574231782 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231786 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1574231790 (deluxe cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231793 (deluxe cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1574231774 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9781574231779 (pbk. ; acid-free paper) |
