LIPTON, LAWRENCE. _The Holy Barbarians._ Messner, 1959. Love among the beat generation, including all kinds of homosexuality.
LITTLE, JAY. _Somewhere between the Two._ Pageant, 1956, (m).
_Maybe Tomorrow._ Pageant, 1952, (m). Amusing.
LIVINGSTON, MARJORIE. _Delphic Echo._ London, Andrew Dakers, 1948, (m). Minor, in a novel of ancient Greece.
LODGE, LOIS. _Love Like a Shadow._ Phoenix Press, 1935. Purple-passaged novel of a lesbian seeking true love.
+ LOFTS, NORAH. _Jassy._ Knopf 1945, pbr Signet 1948, others. Roughly a third of this novel, about a young English girl who, herself innocent, brings tragedy on everyone, is lesbian in emphasis. In a girl’s school she comes between Mrs. Twysdale, a rather slimy, neurotic woman who has adored her boyish cousin, Katherine, for years. Katherine, chafing at this adoration, turns to Jassy for undemanding friendship and Mrs. Twysdale connives to have her expelled—which spurs Katherine to precipitate a long-desired break with her.
_The Lute Player._ Doubleday, 1951; pbr Bantam 1951, (m). Fine historical of Richard III, based on the thesis that he was homosexual.
+ LONG, MARGARET. _Louisville Saturday._ Random 1950, pbr Bantam 1951, 53, 56, 57, 59. A study of women in wartime includes a brief study of a woman’s acceptance of a variant friendship (the sections titled GLADYS).
LORD, SHELDON. _A Strange Kind of Love._ N. Y., Midwood-Tower Pubs pbo 1959. Evening waster about a writer who discovers that two of his (dozens of) girl friends are involved with one another.
_69 Barrow Street._ Midwood-Tower pbo 1959, scv. Love, if you can call it that, in Greenwich Village.
+ LOUŸS, PIERRE. _Aphrodite._ (Many editions, of which the standard English translation seems to be The Collected Works of Pierre Louys, Liveright, 1926, still in print. Also various Avon paperbacks.) The beautifully written story of an Alexandrian courtesan also includes the story of two young Greek girls, Rhodis and Myrtocleia, no more than children, who wish to marry one another.
_The Adventures of King Pausole._ As above. Fine, funny, highly risque story of the king of a strange country, who has a thousand wives, like Solomon, and believes in freedom for everybody except his daughter, Aline—who eventually runs away with a “boy” who is really a girl.