Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Christopher J. Knight is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Montana, USA.