Noel Langley - Partial Bibliography

Partial Bibliography

• Cage Me a Peacock, Arthur Barker, 1935. A humorous historical novel set in Rome at the end of the Tarquin era.
• The Land of Green Ginger, Arthur Barker, 1936. A book for children, concerning Abu Ali, the son of Aladdin.
• There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us, Arthur Barker, 1936. A comic drama about English theatre life.
• Three Plays, Arthur Barker, 1936. Farm of Three Echoes, For Ever, and Friendly Relations.
• The Land of Green Ginger was rewritten for a new edition in 1966 and again in about 1975. In 1965, New York radio station WBAI recorded and broadcast Langley reading this story. A shortened version was issued on LP and offered as a fund-raising incentive.
• So Unlike The English, William Morrow, 1937.
• The Wizard of Oz, 1939, screenplay with Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf.
• Hocus Pocus, Methuen, 1941. A humorous tale set in Hollywood.
• The Music of the Heart, Arthur Barker, 1946. A novel with a circus background.
• The Cabbage Patch, Arthur Barker, 1947. A comic drama about twenty-four hours in the life of Daisy, Lady Buckering.
• The True and Pathetic History of Desbarollda, The Waltzing Mouse, Lindsay Drummond, 1947. A children's book, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
• Nymph In Clover, Arthur Barker, 1948. The Lysistrata debacle retold.
• There's a Horse in My Tree, with Hazel Pynegar, Arthur Barker, 1948. A humorous book.
• Little Lambs Eat Ivy, Samuel French, 1950. A Light Comedy in Three Acts - produced 1948.
• Edward, My Son; A Play in Three Acts, with Robert Morley, French, 1948.
• Somebody's Rocking My Dreamboat, with Hazel Pynegar, Arthur Barker, 1949. A World War II novel about a group of women fleeing from England on a tramp steamer.
• The Inconstant Moon, Arthur Barker, 1949. The story of Dante and Beatrice.
• Tales of Mystery and Revenge, Arthur Barker, 1950.
• Cuckoo in the Dell, with Hazel Pynegar, Arthur Barker, 1951. A tale of a young Norman knight and moral idealism.
• The Rift in the Lute, also known as The Innocent at Large, Arthur Barker, 1952. An innocent boy finds a colourful, exotic world of "gay sinners" in ancient China.
• Where Did Everybody Go?, Arthur Barker, 1960. A story of a playwright.
• An Elegance of Rebels, a play in three acts, Arthur Barker, 1960.
• The Loner, Triton Books, 1967.
• Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation, Hawthorn Books, 1968.
• A Dream of Dragonflies, Macmillan, 1971.
• The Return, Kessinger Publishing, 2005. A collection of Saturday Evening Post short stories.
• Desbarollda, the Waltzing Mouse, Durrant Publishing, 2006. A new edition.