New York Review Books Classics
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The Slynx
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartNew in Paperback
“A postmodern literary masterpiece.” –The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Tolstaya, Tatyana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1590171969
- Language: English
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By: Gogol, Nikolai
Dead Souls
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1590173767
- Language: English
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By: Mitford, Jessica
Hons and Rebels
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartJessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set and a noted novelist and biogra… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Mitford, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1590171101
- Language: English
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We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartJean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still command attention and inspire debate. Sartre’s restless intel… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1590174933
- Language: English
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By: Soseki, Natsume
The Gate
$16.95PaperbackRead moreAn NYRB Classics Original
A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of havi- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Soseki, Natsume
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1590175875
- Language: English
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Rogue Male
$17.95PaperbackRead more1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into th… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Household, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172434
- Language: English
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Angel
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA darkly witty classic about literary worth, ambition, and romantic idealism set in turn-of-the-century England, with an introduction from Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall)
“A delicious satire on the career- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1590174976
- Language: English
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By: Glob, P. V.
The Bog People: Iron Age Man Preserved
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartOne 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 disc
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Glob, P. V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170903
- Language: English
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By: Shchedrin
The Golovlyov Family: Shchedrin
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartSearingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Shchedrin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322579
- Language: English
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By: Morris, Jan
Conundrum
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartOne of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).
“A profound… [more below]- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Morris, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 1590171896
- Language: English
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By: Gass, William H.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartFirst published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stand
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177649
- Language: English
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A House and Its Head
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartA radical thinker, one of the rare modern heretics, said Mary McCarthy of Ivy Compton-Burnett, in whose austere, savage, and bitingly funny novels anything can happen and no one will ever escape. The … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Compton-Burnett, Ivy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322641
- Language: English
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Great Granny Webster
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartShortlisted for the Booker Prize
The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this “masterful . . . macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family port- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Blackwood, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 30 2002
- ISBN10: 1590170075
- Language: English
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Inverted World
$18.95PaperbackRead moreFeatured in Science Fiction: The Best 100 Novels
Winner of the British Science Fiction Award
Nominated for the Hugo Award
The “devilishly entertaining” masterpiece of hard science fiction, set in a … [more below]- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Priest, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172698
- Language: English
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By: Robinson, Tim
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe 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 … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172779
- Language: English
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartHenry 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-… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 159017321X
- Language: English
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By: Zweig, Stefan
Beware of Pity
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartWes Anderson on Stefan Zweig: “I had never heard of Zweig…when I just more or less by chance bought a copy of Beware of Pity. I loved this first book. I also read the The Post-Office Girl. The Gran
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: June 20 2006
- ISBN10: 1590172000
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$17.95PaperbackRead moreA recipe for happiness: four women, one medieval Italian castle, plenty of wisteria, and solitude as needed.
The women at the center of The Enchanted April are alike only in their dissatisfaction with- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Von Arnim, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 03 2007
- ISBN10: 1590172256
- Language: English
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By: Mandelstam, Osip
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
$16.95PaperbackRead moreOsip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmato… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Mandelstam, Osip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170911
- Language: English
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Fatale
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Review Books Original
Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aim e is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Manchette, Jean-Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173813
- Language: English















