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The Summer Book מאת Tove Jansson An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the ver...

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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) מאת John Williams 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 a...

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Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Stefan Zweig Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig’s final achievement, completed in his Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic ...

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Beware of Pity (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Stefan Zweig "Stefan Zweig was a dark and unorthodox artist; it's good to have him back."--Salman RushdieThe great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the fin...

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Short Letter, Long Farewell (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Peter Handke Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America, where he hope...

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Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Jessica Mitford In Hons and Rebels Jessica Mitford tells about her upbringing, which, she dryly remarks, "was not exactly conventional.... Debo spent silent hours in the chicken house learning to do an exact imitation of the look of pained concentration that comes over a hen's face when it is laying an egg.....

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Butcher's Crossing מאת John Williams In his National Book Award–winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher’s Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to s...

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The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Alvaro Mutis Winner of the 2002 Neustadt Prize for World Literature, these seven novellas follow Maqroll's adventures and love affairs from Amazon jungles to Andean peaks. In a world threatened by violence and given over to dirty deals, Maqroll strives at all costs to preserve his honor and maintain his independ...

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Madame de Pompadour (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Nancy Mitford When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather than an aristocrat, she was physically too cold for the carnal Bourbon king, and had so many enemies that she could not travel publicly without risking ...

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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Osip Mandelstam A central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, Osip Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik revolution. His last poems, written on the run in the interval between his exile to the pro...

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The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics) מאת C. V. Wedgwood Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg — as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless independent states. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from...

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Dirty Snow (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Georges Simenon Dirty Snow, widely acknowledged as one of Simenon's finest books, is a study of the criminal mind comparable to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me. It tells the story of Frank, a pimp, a petty thief, and collaborator in occupied France. Through the long and unrelenting cold and darkness of a long w...

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The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Masanobu Fukuoka 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 innovat...

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Alien Hearts (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Guy de Maupassant Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle...

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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Georges Simenon Kees Popinga is an average man, a solid citizen who might enjoy a game of chess in the evening. But one night, this model husband and devoted father discovers his boss is bankrupt and that his own carefully tended life is in ruins. Before, he had watched impassively as the trains swept by; now he ca...

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My Fantoms (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Theophile Gautier Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated biog...

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The Chrysalids (New York Review Books Classics) מאת John Wyndham The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God’s creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burne...

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The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics Series) מאת M.I. Finley The World of Odysseus is a concise and fascinating account of the society that gave birth to The Iliad and The Odyssey. A pioneering work of social history first published in 1954, Finley's brilliant study is a fundamental companion for any student of Homer or ancient Greece. "As indispensable to th...

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The World I Live In (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Helen Keller Helen Keller's The Story of My Life changed the world. But The World I Live In, Keller's sequel to her autobiography, remains almost completely unknown. Here, responding to skeptics who doubted that a girl who was blind, deaf, and mute almost from birth could find words to describe her experience, K...

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The Fox in the Attic (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Richard Hughes A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in the early Twenties, the book centers on Augustine, a young man from an aristocratic Welsh family, and on his stru...

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The Anatomy of Melancholy (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Robert Burton One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton’s astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it “the greatest work of prose of the gr...

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Poem Strip (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Dino Buzzati A New York Review Books Original There’s a certain street—via Saterna—in the middle of Milan that just doesn’t show up on maps of the city. Orfi, a wildly successful young singer, lives there, and it’s there that one night he sees his gorgeous girlfriend Eura disappear, “like a spirit,...

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The Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Der Nister First time in PaperbackThe Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a kabbalistic allegory, an innovative fusion of modernist art and traditional storytelling, a tale of weird humor and mo...

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The Rider on the White Horse (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Theodor Storm “The Rider on the White Horse” begins as a ghost story. A traveler along the coast of the North Sea is caught in dangerously rough weather. Offshore he glimpses a spectral rider rising and plunging in the wind and rain. Taking shelter at an inn, the traveler mentions the apparition, and the loca...

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Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Rudolf Wittkower A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.”Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot...

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Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new series of tales on a very different theme. Brigadier Gerard is an officer in Napoleon’s army — recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable, if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Bri...

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The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Glenway Wescott This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in—with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic p...

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The Liberal Imagination (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Lionel Trilling The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilli...

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Monsieur Monde Vanishes (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Georges Simenon Monsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything. Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimps, with thieves and their marks. A whole new world, where...

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The Dud Avocado (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Elaine Dundy The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Char...

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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Patrick Leigh Fermor 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 pa...

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A Meaningful Life (New York Review Books Classics) מאת L.J. Davis L.J. Davis’s 1971 novel, A Meaningful Life, is a blistering black comedy about the American quest for redemption through real estate and a gritty picture of New York City in collapse. Just out of college, Lowell Lake, the Western-born hero of Davis’s novel, heads to New York, where he pla...

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A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Richard Hughes After a terrible hurricane levels their Jam aican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate ...

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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Patrick Leigh Fermor At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich and sparkling account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Ir...

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The Queue (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Vladimir Sorokin Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It d...

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Memed, My Hawk מאת Yashar Kemal Memed, My Hawk is an epic story of the Middle East by modern Turkey's greatest novelist. Memed grows up in a remote and desperately poor mountain village that suffers under the thumb of the local landlord. Lively and adventurous, young Memed seeks to escape from a life of grueling toil. He ru...

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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Charles Simic In Dime-Store Alchemy Charles Simic, one of contemporary America’s most idiosyncratic, engaging, and skillful poets, reflects on the art of the homegrown American surrealist Joseph Cornell. In a work that is in various degrees biography, criticism, and sheer poetry, Simic tells of Cornell...

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The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved (New York Review Books Classics) מאת P.V. Glob One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P. V. Glob. He i...

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The Case of Comrade Tulayev (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Victor Serge A high government official is shot on the street, and the hunt for the killer begins. The search leads all over the world, netting a series of suspects whose only connection is their innocence - at least of this crime. But The Case of Comrade Tulayev, the best novel about the Stalinist purges, is al...

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The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters מאת Malcolm Lowry A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINALNotorious for a misspent life full of binges, blackouts, and unimaginable bad luck, Malcolm Lowry managed, against every odd, to complete and publish two novels, one of them, Under the Volcano, an indisputable masterpiece. At the time of his death in 195...

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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Edith Wharton A New York Review Books OriginalEdith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable...

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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Patrick Hamilton Patrick Hamilton may be best known now for the plays Rope and Gaslight and for the classic Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor movies they inspired, but in his heyday he was no less famous for his brooding tales of London life. Featuring a Dickensian cast of pubcrawlers, prostitutes, low...

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Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Elizabeth Hardwick Intelligent, lyrical, and partly autobiographical, Sleepless Nights is a scrapbook of memories: the first pangs of sexual longing, Billie Holiday holding forth in a cheap hotel, and the swagger and heartbreak of New York City. Elegant, wise, tasty -- a truly wonderful book. -- Susan Sontag...

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The Snows of Yesteryear (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Gregor von Rezzori Gregor von Rezzori was born in Czernowitz, a onetime provincial capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that was later to be absorbed successively into Romania, the USSR, and the Ukraine—a town that was everywhere and nowhere, with a population of astonishing diversity. Growing up after World War I...

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Chaos and Night (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Henry de Montherlant Don Celestino is old and bitter and afraid, an impossible man. An anarchist who has been in exile from his native Spain for more than twenty years, he lives with his daughter in Paris, but in his mind he is still fighting the Spanish Civil War. He fulminates against the daily papers; he brags about ...

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The Complete Fiction (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Francis Wyndham In his more than eighty years, Francis Wyndham has published very little—one novella and two collections of stories—but his is one of the most individual and compelling bodies of work by a contemporary English writer. As Alan Hollinghurst has said, Wyndham’s fiction stands in the tradition of ...

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The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) מאת J.G. Farrell A darkly humorous picture of the follies of empire, still as relevant as ever, The Siege of Krishnapur is thought by many to be J. G. Farrell's finest book. Set in India in 1857 (the year of the Great Mutiny, when the Indian sepoys rose in bloody rebellion against their complacent British overlords)...

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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Alistair Horne The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers ...

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They Burn the Thistles (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Yashar Kemal Turkey’s greatest novelist, Yashar Kemal is an unsurpassed storyteller who brings to life a world of staggering violence and hallucinatory beauty. Kemal’s books delve deeply into the entrenched social and historical conflicts that scar the Middle East. At the same time scents and sounds, vistas ...

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Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Georges Simenon An actor and a divorcee meet in a deserted New York City afterhours bar. With little in common save loneliness, middle age, and a presentiment of escape, they improvise a love story. The fragility and fear that drive their experiment from moment to moment, bedroom to bedroom, transform this boy-meet...

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The Engagement (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Georges Simenon On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling cl...

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The Pure and the Impure (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Colette 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...

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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861 (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau’s Journal was his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most intensive explorations ever made of the everyday environment, the revol...

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The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Mavis Gallant A New York Review Books OriginalMavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished artistry,...

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The Big Clock (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Kenneth Fearing George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfrien...

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Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Mavis Gallant Mavis Gallant is an undisputed master of the short story whose peerless prose captures the range of human experience while evoking time and place with unequaled skill. This new selection of Gallant’s stories, edited by best-selling author Michael Ondaatje, gathers the best of her many stories set ...

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The Slaves of Solitude (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Patrick Hamilton England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter. Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the Blitz, middle-aged Miss Roach has retreated to ...

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Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Patrick Leigh Fermor 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...

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Everything Flows (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Vasily Grossman A New York Review Books OriginalEverything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place f...

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The Way of the World (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Nicolas Bouvier In 1953, twenty-four-year old Nicolas Bouvier and his artist friend Thierry Vernet set out to make their way overland from their native Geneva to the Khyber Pass. They had a rattletrap Fiat and a little money, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would re...

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Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Emmett Grogan Ringolevio is a classic American story of self-invention by one of the more mysterious and alluring figures to emerge in the 1960s. Emmett Grogan grew up on New York City’s mean streets, getting hooked on heroin before he was in his teens, kicking the habit and winning a scholarship to a sw...

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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Daniel Paul Schreber In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schr...

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Hard Rain Falling (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Don Carpenter Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the ...

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My Dog Tulip (New York Review Books Classics) מאת J.R. Ackerley J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was s kittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. This clear-eyed and wonderin g, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as one of the greatest masterpieces of animal literature, is her biography, a work of faultless an d re...

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Envy (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Yuri Olesha Yuri Olesha's novella combines social satire, effervescent humor, and a wild visionary streak in the story of a Soviet Babbitt, a hero of industry who presides over an unheard-of increase in the production of sausage. But beside this man with the unshakable self-regard is the bitter sponger who, con...

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Soul of Wood (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Jakov Lind Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind’s reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar German writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the title novella and six subsequent stories, Lind distorts and refashions reality to make the deepest horrors of the twentieth century hi...

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The True Deceiver (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Tove Jansson A New York Review Books OriginalDeception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island ...

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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Peter Handke After his mother’s suicide, Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke wanted to set down what he knew, or could say, about her life and the causes of her death before "the dull speechlessness ... the extreme speechlessness" of grief took hold forever. The result is an unsparing, deeply moving ...

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The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Rebecca West Though the Aubreys’ lives have long been clouded by their father’s genius for instability, surely his new editorial appointment in London will turn things around. Seen through the merciless, loving eyes of young Rose, one of four siblings, Rebecca West’s 1957 novel is a vital, witty, and d...

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The Book of Ebenezer Le Page (New York Review Books Classics) מאת G.B. Edwards 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 y...

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English, August: An Indian Story (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Upamanyu Chatterjee Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by i...

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Unforgiving Years מאת Victor Serge A New York Review Books OriginalUnforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge’s final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical o...

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Flaubert and Madame Bovary מאת Francis Steegmuller Francis Steegmuller’s beautifully executed double portrait of Madame Bovary and her maker is a remarkable and unusual biographical study, a sensitive and detailed account of how an unpromising young man turns himself into one of the world’s greatest novelists. Steegmuller starts with the young F...

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Paris and Elsewhere (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Richard Cobb Perhaps no one loves France as much as the English, and Richard Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian, was a passionate admirer of the country. He was a connoisseur of the dive and the flophouse, as well as a familiar of the quays of Paris and the docks of Le Havre and Marseilles. Paris and Elsewh...

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Warlock (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Oakley Hall A twisted pulp epic, in which the fantasy world of the Western is revealed as the perverse unconscious of American life, Oakley Hall's Warlock is one of the most unusual and remarkable inspirations of recent American literature. It is the story of Clay Blaisedell, a celebrity sharpshooter who...

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The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Rose MacAulay "‘Take my camel, dear,’ said my aunt Dot." So begins Rose Macaulay’s greatest novel. Traveling overland from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond, the narrator and her companions have a series of hilarious encounters with potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant policemen, and an ever-appearing buslo...

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Morte D'Urban (New York Review Books Classics) מאת J.F. Powers Winner of The 1963 National Book Award for Fiction The hero of J.F. Powers's comic masterpiece is Father Urban, a man of the cloth who is also a man of the world. Charming, with an expansive vision of the spiritual life and a high tolerance for moral ambiguity, Urban enjoys a national reputati...

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Rock Crystal (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Adalbert Stifter Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most stra...

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Witch Grass מאת Raymond Queneau Seated in a Paris cafe, a man glimpses another man, a shadowy figure hurrying to the train. Who is he? he wonders, and how does he live? Instantly the shadow comes to life, precipitating a series of hilarious encounters involving a range of disreputable and heartwarming characters that prove as ...

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Cassandra at the Wedding מאת Dorothy Baker Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: brilliant, nerve wracked, gay, and miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras for the wedding of her identical twin to a nice doctor from Connecticut. She is, however, hell-bent o...

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School for Love (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Olivia Manning Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, bi...

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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Carlo Emilio Gadda 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 Detect...

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The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Soren Kierkegaard The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one o f the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from his vast and varied writings is a perfect introduction to his work. W.H. Auden, who wa...

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The Education Of A Gardener (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Russell Page Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intel...

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Memories of the Future (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Written in Soviet Moscow in the 1920s—but considered too subversive even to show to a publisher—the seven tales included here attest to Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s boundless imagination, black humor, and breathtaking irony: a man loses his way in the vast black waste of his own small room; the ...

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Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Tim Robinson The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are...

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The Old Man and Me (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Elaine Dundy In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no ...

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A Book of Mediterranean Food (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Elizabeth David First published in 1950, Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food ushered in cooking’s modern era, emphasizing fresh ingredients and the idea that good food need not be the exclusive province of the master chef. A Book of Mediterranean Food consists of recipes David collected when she live...

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Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (New York Review Books) מאת Gregor von Rezzori The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age,...

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Belchamber (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Howard Sturgis Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers—Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers—known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English aristocratic family. Behind him stretches a rogues’ gallery of picturesque upper-crust scoundrels. But...

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Stones of Aran: Labyrinth (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Tim Robinson Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson’s ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the l...

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Victorine (New York Review Books Classics) מאת Maude Hutchins Victorine is thirteen, and she can’t get the unwanted surprise of her newly sexual body, in all its polymorphous and perverse insistence, out of her mind: it is a trap lying in wait for her at every turn (and nowhere, for some reason, more than in church). Meanwhile, Victorine’s older brother Co...

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The Bridge of Beyond מאת Simone Schwarz-Bart This is an intoxicating tale of love and wonder, mothers and daughters, spiritual values and the grim legacy of slavery on the French Antillean island of Guadeloupe. Here long-suffering Telumee tells her life story and tells us about the proud line of Lougandor women she continues to draw strength from. Time flows unevenly during the long hot blue days as the madness of the island swirls around the villages, and Telumee, raised in the shelter of wide skirts, must learn how to navigate the adversities of a peasant community, the ecstasies of love, and domestic realities while arriving at her ow...