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  • The Bridegroom Was a DogQuick View
    By: Tawada, Yoko

    The Bridegroom Was a Dog

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    The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “fast-movin

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    • Series: New Directions Pearls #0
    • Author: Tawada, Yoko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: November 27 2012
    • ISBN10: 0811220370
    • Language: English
  • Tropisms Out of stock Quick View
    By: Sarraute, Nathalie

    Tropisms

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    Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls
    • Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 09 2015
    • ISBN10: 0811222764
    • Language: English
  • The WalkQuick View
    By: Walser, Robert

    The Walk

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    A pseudo-biographical “stroll” through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser’s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writin… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls #0
    • Author: Walser, Robert
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 23 2012
    • ISBN10: 811219925
    • Language: English
  • MorphineQuick View
    By: Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich

    Morphine

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    Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls #0
    • Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: September 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 0811221687
    • Language: English
  • In Search of DuendeQuick View
    By: Federico Garcia Lorca

    In Search of Duende

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    The notion of “duende”–a demonic earth spirit embodying irrationality, earthiness, and a heightened awareness of death–became a cornerstone of Lorca’s poetics. In Search of Duende gathers Lorca’s wr… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls #0
    • Author: Garcia Lorca, Federico
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 01 2010
    • ISBN10: 0811218554
    • Language: English
  • Everything and NothingQuick View
    By: Borges, Jorge Luis

    Everything and Nothing

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    Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work–written in the 1930s and ’40s–that foresaw the internet (“Tl?, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of F… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls #0
    • Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 25 2010
    • ISBN10: 081121883X
    • Language: English
  • Spring and AllQuick View
    By: William Carlos Williams

    Spring and All

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    Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re… [more below]

    • Series: New Directions Pearls
    • Author: Williams, William Carlos
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 13 2011
    • ISBN10: 0811218910
    • Language: English
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