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Stoner by WILLIAMS JOHN EDWARD
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the ...Show more
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda & William Weaver (transl.)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In a large apartment house in central Rome, two crimes are committed within a matter of days: a burglary, in which a good deal of money and precious jewels are taken, and a murder, as a young woman whose husband is out of town is found with her throat cut. Called in to investigate, melancholy Detective ...Show more
The Book of Ebenezer le Page by G.B. Edwards
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place caught between the coasts of England and France yet a ...Show more
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
One cold Moscow night, Comrade Tulayev, a high government official, is shot dead on the street, and the search for the killer begins. In this panoramic vision of the Soviet Great Terror, the investigation leads all over the world, netting a whole series of suspects whose only connection is their innocen ...Show more
The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger; Bruce Sterling (Introduction by); Louise Bogan (Translator); Elizabeth Mayer (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst J nger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology and his strategic command of the information and entertainment industries into a discrete form of global domi ...Show more
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares; Ruth L. C. Simms (Translator); Jorge Luis Borges (Prologue by); Suzanne Jill Levine (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is ...Show more
The Mad and the Bad by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Translator); Wendell Berry (Preface by); Frances Moore Lappe (Introduction by)
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Category: Science & Natural History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of ...Show more
The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel "The Leopard" but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. "The Professor and the Siren," like "T ...Show more
The Pure and the Impure by Colette
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Colette herself considered "The Pure and the Impure" her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a ser ...Show more
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood; Paul Kennedy; Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)
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Category: European | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
To Each His Own by W. S. (INT) Adrienne (TRN); Di Piero Leonardo; Foulke Sciascia
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: New York Review Books Classics