Dalkey Archive Essentials
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Ladies Almanack
$15.95 Add to cartA “striking lesbian manifesto and a deft parody” by the acclaimed author of Nightwood. (-Library Journal)
Nearly 100 years after its original 1928 publication sent shockwaves through the literary scene… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barnes, Djuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 162897558X
- Language: English
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Palinuro of Mexico
$22.95 Add to cartWinner of Mexico’s Premio Novela Mexico, Spain’s Romulo Gallegos Prize for best Spanish-language novel, and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre ?tranger for best foreign book, Palinuro of Mexico is a mast
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: del Paso, Fernando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1628975636
- Language: English
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Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine
$15.95 Add to cartLog of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a masterpiece of modern domestic life, a comic novel of closeness and difficulty, miscommunication and stubborn resolve.
“Forty years ago I first linked up with
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Crawford, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1628975628
- Language: English
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The Making of Americans
$22.95 Add to cartGertrude Stein’s monumental novel, back in print a century after its first publication.
In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworki… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Stein, Gertrude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1628974664
- Language: English
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Suicide
$15.95 Add to cartSuicide cannot be read as simply another novel-it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals.
Presenting itself as an investigat
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Levé, Edouard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1628976101
- Language: English
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Nobodaddy’s Children
$17.95 Add to cartNobodaddy’s Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary l… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Schmidt, Arno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1628974567
- Language: English
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Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartAngel in the Forest is Marguerite Young’s fascinating chronicle of two attempts to establish utopian communities in nineteenth-century America.
In it, she recounts the strange tale of New Harmony, Indi… [more below]- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Young, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975512
- Language: English
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Europeana
$15.95 Add to cartTracing the Great War through the Millennium Bug, 1999 through 1900, Dadaism through
Scientology through Sierra Leonean bicycle riding and back, award-winning Czech author Patrik
Ourednik explores the h… [more below]- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Ourednik, Patrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975016
- Language: English
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Chimera
$16.95 Add to cartA National Book Award winner, this bawdy, comic trio of novellas finds John Barth injecting his signature wit into three tales many times told: that of Scheherazade, storyteller of the Thousand and On… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974451
- Language: English
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Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
$16.95 Add to cartIshmael Reed’s classic Neo-HooDoo Western, a classic from the Dalkey catalog, is presented here in a long-awaited republication with a new introduction.
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Reed, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 177
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973870
- Language: English
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La Batarde
$18.95 Add to cartAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La B?arde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own i
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Leduc, Violette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974575
- Language: English
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Sot-Weed Factor
$24.95 Add to cartThis is Barth’s most distinguished masterpiece. This modern classic is a hilarious tribute to all the most insidious human vices, with a hero who is “one of the most diverting . . . to roam the world
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 806
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1628973943
- Language: English
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Billy & Girl
$15.95 Read moreIn this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewh… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975032
- Language: English
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Phosphor in Dreamland
$16.95 Add to cartWildly comic, erotic, and perverse, Rikki Ducornet’s dazzling novel, Phosphor in Dreamland, explores the relationship between power and madness, nature and its exploitation, pornography and art, innoc… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Ducornet, Rikki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974435
- Language: English
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Family of Pascual Duarte
$15.95 Read moreConfined to a prison cell, thrice-murderer Pascual Duarte recounts his journey from a violent childhood to a life of pain and misfortune; juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Cela, Camilo Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1628975059
- Language: English
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Ryder
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the author of Nightwood, Djuna Barnes has written a book that is all that she was, and must still be vulgar, beautiful, defiant, witty, poetic, and a little mad.
Told as through a kaleidoscope, t
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Barnes, Djuna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1628974982
- Language: English
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Pierrot Mon Ami
$16.95 Add to cartPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age novel concerning a young man’s initiation into a world filled with deceit, fraud, and
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Queneau, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974613
- Language: English
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Mulligan Stew
$18.95 Read moreWidely regarded as Sorrentino’s finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde novelist Antony Lamont struggles to wr… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Sorrentino, Gilbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1628974486
- Language: English
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The Planetarium
$16.95 Add to cartA young writer has his heart set on his aunt’s large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bittern
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1628973897
- Language: English
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The Third Policeman
$16.95 Add to cartThe Third Policeman is Flann O’Brien’s brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death, and existence.
Told by a narrator who has committed a botched robbery and brutal murder, the novel f
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: O’Brien, Flann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975776
- Language: English
