Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Music at the Close
Chapter One: The Golden Child and the Anxious Relation to Detective Fiction
Chapter Two: The Second Saddest Story: Despair, Belief, and Moral Perseverance in The Bookshop
Chapter Three: Offshore: "Between the Hither and the Farther Shore"
Chapter Four: Human Voices: Voice, Truth and Human Fortitude
Chapter Five: At Freddie’s, or "All My Pretty Ones"
Chapter Six: Innocence: An Allegory of Fall
Chapter Seven: The Beginning of Spring: Resisting "Irreligious Triviality"
Chapter Eight: The Gate of Angels and the Challenge to Modern Religious Belief
Chapter Nine: The Blue Flower and A World Elsewhere
Conclusion: "The Gift of Death"
Works Cited
Biography
Christopher J. Knight is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Montana, USA.
