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Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig; Sarah Weinman (Afterword by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad's affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. ...Show more
Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: very good
Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband's death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has had only her trips to his grave to look forward to. Her raucous housekeeper's conversation, and cooking, are best forgotten. Nadine, her daughter, is an infre ...Show more
Dead Souls by Donald (INT) Nikolai Vasilevich; Rayfield Gogol
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces. Gogol hoped to show the world "the untold riches of the Russian soul" in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of charact ...Show more
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the tr ...Show more
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic cra ...Show more
Ivory Pearl by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator); Gary Indiana (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Mani Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its pe ...Show more
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars (tr. Alan Brown)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch--except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify hi ...Show more
Mouchette by Georges Bernanos
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
One of the great mavericks of French literature, Georges Bernanos combined raw realism with a spiritual focus of visionary intensity. Mouchette stands with his celebrated Diary of a Country Priest as the perfection of his singular art. "Nothing but a little savage" is how the village school-teacher desc ...Show more
Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: very good
A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL "Novels in Three Lines" collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906--true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that provokes laughter even as it shocks. This extraordinar ...Show more
Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by FERMOR PATRICK LEIGH
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermo ...Show more