New York Review of Books
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By: Wyndham, John
The Chrysalids
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe Chrysalids 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, who exist in a
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Wyndham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 18 2008
- ISBN10: 1590172922
- Language: English
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By: Colette
Chéri and the End of Chéri
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartColette’s celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.
Colette’s Ch?ri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Ch?ri (1926), are wide- Author: Colette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376709
- Language: English
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By: Thomas Tryon
The Other
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartHolland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other’s thoughts, but they couldn’t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Tryon, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1590175832
- Language: English
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The Stone Face
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartA roman ? clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and violence of Algerian War-era France, and one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris massacre of 1961.
As a t- Author: Smith, William Gardner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375168
- Language: English
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By: Fei, Ge
Peach Blossom Paradise
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China’s greatest living novelists.
In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it- Author: Fei, Ge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1681374706
- Language: English
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Blue Lard
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartBlue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what’s left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebr… [more below]
- Author: Sorokin, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378183
- Language: English
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By: Modiano, Patrick
In the Café of Lost Youth
$15.95PaperbackRead moreNYRB Classics Original
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In the Caf of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secre… [more below]- Author: Modiano, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1590179536
- Language: English
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By: Frank, Edwin
The Red Thread: Twenty Years of Nyrb Classics: A Selection
$17.95PaperbackRead moreTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrint… [more below]- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373912
- Language: English
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By: Burton, Robert
The Anatomy of Melancholy
$32.95PaperbackAdd to cartOne 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 public… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Burton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1424
- Publish Date: April 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322668
- Language: English
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By: Grossman, Vasily
The People Immortal
$19.95PaperbackRead moreThe first war novel by the author of Life and Fate and a stunningly accurate portrayal of soldierly life written at the beginning of World War II.
Vasily Grossman wrote three novels about the Second W- Author: Grossman, Vasily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376784
- Language: English
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By: Duvoisin, Roger
The House of Four Seasons
$19.95HardcoverAdd to cartBy the author of the bestselling picture book Petunia, The House of Four Seasons is a bright and lively family picture book about colors, imagination, and compromise
When Father, Mother, Billy, and Su- Author: Duvoisin, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1681370980
- Language: English
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By: Kenji Miyazawa
Once and Forever: The Tales of Kenji Miyazawa
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartA collection of classic, fantastical tales from Northern Japan that are equal parts whimsical and sophisticated, perfect for readers of all ages.
Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved w- Author: Miyazawa, Kenji
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1681372606
- Language: English
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By: Jansson, Tove
The True Deceiver
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Review Books Original
Winner of the Best Translated Book Award
Deception–the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others–is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unp
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 08 2009
- ISBN10: 1590173295
- Language: English
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A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis beloved account about an intrepid young Englishman on the first leg of his walk from London to Constantinople is simply one of the best works of travel literature ever written.
At the age of eig- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Leigh Fermor, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 03 2005
- ISBN10: 1590171659
- Language: English
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By: Natalia Ginzburg
Family Lexicon
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartA masterpiece of European literature that blends family memoir and fiction
An Italian family, sizable, with its routines and rituals, crazes, pet phrases, and stories, doubtful, comical, indispensable- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1590178386
- Language: English
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By: Claude Anet
Ariane, a Russian Girl
$15.95PaperbackRead more“Men speak freely of the women they’ve had, and we’re condemned to silence. Why? Aren’t we as free as you? Don’t we, like you, have the right to take pleasure wherever we find it? . . . They praise se… [more below]
- Author: Anet, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377101
- Language: English
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By: Nastassja Martin
In the Eye of the Wild
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartAfter enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far East’s Kamchatka Peninsula, a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous di… [more below]
- Author: Martin, Nastassja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375850
- Language: English
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By: Gallant, Mavis
Paris Stories
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL
Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, “radically resha- Author: Gallant, Mavis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 31 2002
- ISBN10: 1590170229
- Language: English
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By: Wells, H. G.
The War of the Worlds
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartNow in paperback, and accompanied by Edward’s Gorey’s masterful, timelessly haunting illustrations, H. G. Wells’s classic story of alien invasion.
When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down- Author: Wells, H. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1681376091
- Language: English
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By: Ocampo, Silvina
Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the n- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Ocampo, Silvina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1590177673
- Language: English
















