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Down Below by Leonora Carrington
Category: Biography | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. The daughter of Anglo Irish privilege, she broke free of her manor-house upbringing and fled, first to art school, and then to the Continent. Though she is best known as a painter of the gothic fantastic, with a cult following a ...Show more
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more
Pitch Dark by Renata Adler; Guy Trebay (Contribution by); Muriel Spark (Afterword by)
Category: No Category | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to her prize winning book Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, and moments (conversation ...Show more
Speedboat by Renata Adler
Category: No Category | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"It has been more than thirty-five years since Renata Adler’s Speedboat charged through the literary establishment, blasting genre walls and pointing the way for a newly liberated way of writing. This unclassifiable work is simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession, and critique. It is ...Show more
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Category: Self-Help | Series: NYRB Classics S.
One of the major documents of modern European civilisation, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it 'the greatest work of prose of the greatest perio ...Show more
Tristana by Benito Pérez Galdós; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Jeremy Treglown (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
The tale of a high-spirited, ambitious young woman or man breaking free from stifling provincial constraints to pursue a life of independence is a staple of the novel. In Tristanathe great Spanish novelist Benito Pe rez Galdo s disconcertingly reverses the formula. His beautiful and brilliant and very w ...Show more
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