C.P. Cavafy. Selected Prose Works. Translated and Annotated by Peter Jeffreys. Writers on Writing. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. xix, 163 p.

ISBN 9780472070954 cloth; 9780472050956 pbk

Contains: Preface by Dimitris Tziovas (pp. xi-xii); Translator's Introduction (pp. xiii-xix). The following prose texts:

I. Essays: "1. What I Remember of My Essay on Christopulus" (pp. 3-4); "2. Fragment on Lycanthropy" (pp. 5-9); "3. Fragment on Woman and the Ancients" (p. 10); "4. Fragment on Beliefs concerning the Soul" (p. 11); "5. Persian Manners" (pp. 12-13); "6. Masks" (p. 14); "7. Misplaced Tenderness" (pp. 15-16); "8. Coral from a Mythological Perspective" (pp. 17-18); "9. Romaic Folk-lore of Enchanted Animals" (pp. 19-20); "10. Give Back the Elgin Marbles" (pp. 21-22); "11. An Update on the Elgin Marbles" (pp. 23-26); "12. Shakespeare on Life" (pp. 27-30); "13. Professor Blackie on the Modern Greek Language" (pp. 31-35); "14. The Byzantine Poets" (pp. 36-40); "15. Our Museum" (pp. 41-42); "16. Lamia" (pp. 43-53); "17. The Cypriot Question" (pp. 54-57); "18. Traces of Greek Thought in Shakespeare" (pp. 58-59); "19. Greek Scholars in Roman Houses" (pp. 60-65); "20. A Page of Trojan History" (pp. 66-67); "21. On the Intellectual Affinity of Egypt and the West" (pp. 68-69).

II. Fiction and Creative Writing: "22. A Night Out in Kalinderi" (pp. 73-76); "23. The Mountain" (pp. 77-79); "24. Garments" (p. 80); "25. The Pleasure Brigade"(p. 81); "26. Musings of an Aging Artist" (pp. 82-83); "27. The Ships" (pp. 84-85); "28. In Broad Daylight" (pp. 86-93).

III. Literary Reflections: "29. On Browning" (pp. 97-102); "30. The Last Days of Odysseus" (pp. 103-111); "31. A Few Pages on the Sophists" (pp. 112-115); "32. Philosophical Scrutiny: Part One" (pp. 116-119); "33. On The Chronicle of Morea" (pp. 120-122); "34. Independence" (pp. 123-124).

IV. Miscellaneous: "35. On Saint Symeon the Stylite" (p. 127); "36. Greeks and Not Romans" (p. 128); "37. Twenty-Seven Notes on Poetics and Ethics" (pp. 129-139); "38. A Note on Obsolete Words" (p. 140); "39. For a Student Anthology of Demotic Songs" (pp. 141-142); "40. On the Poet C.P. Cavafy" (p. 143).

Translator's Notes (pp. 145-163).