Early novels and stories

Bright center of heaven

They came like swallows

Stories 1938-1945: Homecoming ; Actual thing ; Young Francis Whitehead ; Haller's second home ; Patterns of love

Folded leaf

Time will darken it

Stories 1952-1956: Trojan women ; Pilgrimage ; What every boy should know ; French scarecrow

Writer as illusionist

Appendix: Introduction to They came like swallows ; Preface to Time will darken it

Chronology

Note on the texts

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