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The first six pages of an early, chapter-by-chapter organizational scheme created by William H. Gass during the development of Middle C. This outline does not reflect the finished book.

The first 159 pages of the setting copy ofThe World Within the Word. Includes the title and credit pages, and the first five essays: "The Doomed in their Sinking" (p. 1-17), "Malcom Lowery" (p. 18-46), "Wisconsin Death Trip" (p. 47-54), "Mr. Blotner,…

Sketch of Gilean, Ohio, the fictional town that is the setting of Omensetter's Luck, drawn on the back of a typescript draft page.

Autograph chapter outline notes on Omensetter's Luck,in a blue examination booklet.

Selected draft fragments of the essay, "The Artist and Society,"first published inThe New Republic, July 17, 1968, reprinted inThe Purdue AlumnusandThe Penguin Book of Essay,and collected inFiction and the Figures of Life.

Cover of uncorrected proof of Middle C.

Typescript draft of first portion ofOn Being Blue--in blue type, with occasional autograph corrections. Also includes three pages of typescript draft fragments.

Four printout draft versions of an early draft of "Krystalnacht," a section of The Tunnel, with autograph notation at the end.

Front cover of an uncorrected page proof by Harper & Row ofFiction and the Figures of Life. Never published by Harper & Row, the book was moved to and published by Knopf in 1970.

Corrected typescript draft of an essay first published inThe New Republic, July 17, 1968, reprinted inThe Purdue AlumnusandThe Penguin Book of Essay,and collected inFiction and the Figures of Life.