kavan.land
Works
Locations
Characters
Bigrams
Oracle
A Charmed Circle
, 1929
The Dark Sisters
, 1930
Let Me Alone
, 1930
A Stranger Still
, 1935
Goose Cross
, 1936
Rich Get Rich
, 1937
Asylum Piece and Other Stories
, 1940
Change the Name
, 1941
I am Lazarus
, 1945
Sleep Has His House
, 1947
The Horse’s Tale
, 1949
A Scarcity of Love
, 1956
Eagles’ nest
, 1957
A Bright Green Field and Other Stories
, 1958
Who Are You ?
, 1963
Ice
, 1967
Julia and the Bazooka
, 1970
My Soul in China
, 1975
My Madness
, 1990
Mercury
, 1994
The Parson
, 1995
Guilty
, 2007
asylum
Bandol
bathroom
Bellevue hotel
Bellevue sanatorium
Blue Hills
boarding school
Burma
California
castle
colonial house
England
English countryside
Ethelbert Place
Far East
garden
Gardone Lake
Hannington
High City
hospital
hotel
jungle
London
Mill Hill Hospital
moorland
mountains
Nice
northern region
on the road
Oxford
pacific Coast
Port Said
Pyrenees
Rangoon
River House
Riviera
rock-fortress
room
South of France
Starling Hill
Switzerland
tennis court
Thazila
Toulon
Worcester Road
A.
Adam Green
Anna Kavan
Anthony Quested
Beryl Deane
Captain
Carew
Carla
Catherine Howard
Cedric Lewison
Celia
Chas
Chief
Claydon
David Fairborther
doctor
Doctor Deane
doctors
Dr Hieronymus
Edmond
Edward Wilbur
Emerald
George West
Gerald Gill
Gerda
Germaine Lewison
girl
Gwenda Lewison
Heyward Bland
Hubert Byrne
Hugh
husband
Irving
James Forrester
John
Judith Spender
Julia
Karen
Kathbar
Kay
Lauretta Bland
Lise Forrester
Luke
Luz
M
Mark
Martin
Martin Lewison
Mary Graham
Matthew Kavan
Max
Miss Wilson
Mohamed Dirwaza Khan
Molly Maguilar
Morgan
mother
Mr DogHead
Mr Patronage
Mr Spector
Mrs Deane
Oblomov
officers
Olive Deane
Oswald
patient
R.
Rachel Fielding
Regina
Rejane
Ronald Deane
schoolboy
Sidney Reeve
student
Suede Boots
Swithin
the Australian
Thomas Bow
Thomas Spender
Tony Quested
Torquil
uncle
warden
Will Trenchard
William Lewison
Winny West
Accent Adjutant
Alton House
Anna felt
Anna Kavan
Anthony Quested
anyone else
anything else
anywhere near
Arab horse
art master
art school
aurora borealis
bad temper
banana trees
barbed wire
beech woods
big man
big powers
blue carpet
blue eyes
Blue Hills
bottom drawer
boy said
brown face
bubbling mess
cargo boat
Carolina Club
caught sight
certain amount
cherry tree
chief clerk
Chief Cybernetics
church clock
clanging bells
clay pictures
clenched fist
cold wind
colossally underfoot
come back
coming nearer
could feel
could hardly
could see
Cybernetics Consultant
dancing master
dead spot
death instinct
dining hall
Dirwaza Khan
distinctive dress
Dog Head
dressing gown
early morning
electric shock
English doctor
escaping steam
Ethelbert Place
ever since
fair hair
far away
Farmer Hugh
fever bird
fever birds
first time
five minutes
flat roof
flattens colossally
fluttering fans
forest trees
front door
fur coat
George West
Gerald Gill
get away
get rid
glanced round
good deal
Good heavens
good humour
good looks
grey beard
grey coat
grey eyes
grey hooded
gym mistress
hardly believe
hazel eyes
Heyward Bland
High City
High House
hooded coat
Hope Deferred
Hubert Byrne
human beings
hurrying along
immediately afterwards
James Forrester
kept repeating
Kluge Hans
knowing whether
Lauretta Bland
Lazy Dog
Liaison Officer
lime tree
little girl
loden coat
long ago
long time
mad dog
Martin Lewison
Matthew Kavan
Middle Ages
Miss Aguilar
Miss Graham
Miss Wilson
Misses Newsom
mocking bird
Mohammed Dirwaza
Molly Aguilar
mosquito net
mountain slopes
much longer
Mulberry juice
muttered conference
naive optimism
Narciso Valesco
New York
next moment
nothing else
nudist colony
old ladies
old lady
old man
Old Vicarage
one another
open space
palm leaves
palm tree
partnership agreement
pear tree
Permanent Chief
picnic lunch
porcupine quills
port authorities
Port Said
quite different
quite near
Rachel Fielding
rapid develop
rat game
red carnation
refused admittance
Revolution Avenue
River House
said Anna
said Beryl
said nothing
says nothing
single fly
Sir Edward
sitting beside
six months
slaughter house
somebody else
Starling Hill
strange woman
stranger sprang
straw hat
Suede Boots
swung round
taken aback
Thank goodness
third officer
third ofï¬cer
Thomas Bow
three months
thunderous revving
Tiny Thing
Tony Quested
treacherous patches
tropical island
tube station
two doctors
two girls
university accent
unobtrusive helpfulness
unseen person
vaguely familiar
verse burgeons
Ward Six
white turban
wide open
William Lewison
wondered whether
Worcester Road
would never
Yellow Submarine
young girl
young man
Young Trackers
active archives
Ballard likes
bio Callard
bio Reed
bio Sturm
coffee break
Connolly likes
Delany likes
drug addict
enough heroin
Fallowell likes
Gee likes
Ironside likes
Lessing likes
like Agamben
like Artaud
like Barnes
like Bollano
like Bowles
like Burroughs
like De Chirico
like De Quincey
like DH Lawrence
like Eliot
like Ishiguro
like Joyce
like Oates
like K Dick
like Kafka
like Harrisson
like Mansfield
like Pessoa
like Plath
like Poe
like Priest
like Reage
like Rhys
like Robbe-Grillet
like Sade
like Sexton
like Vonnegut
like Woolf
mental instability
Nin likes
over again
papers Aldiss
papers Cape
papers Bluth
papers Hamilton
proto feminism
puzzling narrative
remix Britton
remix Carta
remix Morisson
remix Pochon
remix Tibet
remix Uzi
remix Verret
remix Weinstein
self portrait
sensational life
SF writer
war writer
web folkore
women writings
Zambreno likes
« originally published as " house of sleep" by doubleday, new york, 1947 »
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