Title: Hesitant fire : selected prose of Max Jacob /
Authors: Jacob, Max, 1876-1944; Black, Moishe.; Green, Maria.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Jacob, Max, Translations into English.
Contents: Acknowledgments (p.xi) -- Translator's note (p.xiii) -- Introduction (p.xv) -- The story of King Kabul the First and Gawain, the kitchen-boy (p.3) -- From The coast (p.29) -- The sailor's homecoming (p.30) -- The man who forced girls (p.30) -- From The flowering plant (p.32) -- The twelve species of common adultery (p.33) -- Advanced degeneracy (p.33) -- From In defense of Tartufe (p.35) -- The revelation (p.36) -- Visitation (p.37) -- Vision (p.37) -- Meanings (p.37) -- Exhortation (p.38) -- The artist introduces himself (p.39) -- From Film-flam (p.43) -- The girl who found a husband (p.44) -- The lawyer who meant to have two wives instead of one (p.48) -- The man who had never traveled first class on the train before (p.55).