The True Deceiver

Tove Jansson

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books
• A 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 su... Lees meer

Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham

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• Now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni C... Lees meer

Jakob Von Gunten

Robert Walser

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books | nr. 10
• The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly... Lees meer

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books | nr. 5
• "[The book] I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is "Lolly Willowes," the 1926 novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It tells the story of a woman ... Lees meer

Equal Danger

Leonardo Sciascia

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• District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas ... Lees meer

Wish Her Safe at Home

Stephen Benatar

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• Rachel Waring is deliriously happy. Out of nowhere, a great-aunt leaves her a Georgian mansion in another city--and she sheds her old life without del... Lees meer

The Scientist as Rebel

Freeman Dyson

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• From Galileo to today's amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resi... Lees meer

The Other House

Henry James

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books | nr. 12
• This terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew , is the story of a struggle for possession--and of its... Lees meer

Amsterdam Stories

Nescio

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• The first translation of Nescio into English. All the major works and a broad selection of his shorter stories are all here Lees meer

White Walls

Tatyana Tolstaya

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• A New York Review Books Original "Tolstaya carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." - Time Tatyana Tolstaya'... Lees meer

The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard

Victor Eremita

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books | nr. 6
• Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander Dru The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the ... Lees meer

Soul of Wood

Jakov Lind

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• Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind's reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the ... Lees meer

Last Words from Montmartre

Qiu Miaojin

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• An NYRB Classics Original When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublis... Lees meer

The Sun King

Nancy Mitford

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• A "devastatingly witty" biography of Louis XIV and the Court of Versailles--at once a historical record of late 17th- and early 18th-century France an... Lees meer

Grief Lessons

Euripides

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• Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponn... Lees meer

Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham

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• Now a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, and Toni C... Lees meer

The Hall of Uselessness

Simon Leys

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• Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Wes... Lees meer

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Collodi

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• Though one of the best-known books in the world, Pinocchio at the same time remains unknown--linked in many minds to the Walt Disney movie that bears ... Lees meer

The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories

Tayeb Salih

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• "The Wedding of Zein" unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih's tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. He... Lees meer

Classic Crimes

William Roughead

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• Dorothy Sayers called William Roughead "the best showman who ever stood before the door of the chamber of horrors," and his true crime stories, writte... Lees meer

In Parenthesis

David Jones

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• "This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of" with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful i... Lees meer

The Stuffed Owl

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books
• The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a... Lees meer

Transit

Anna Seghers

• Paperback | Engels | New York Review Books
• Anna Seghers's Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the pli... Lees meer

Dante

Erich Auerbach

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• Erich Auerbach's Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and st... Lees meer