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A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY by J.L. CARR
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countrysi ...Show more
A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
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Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were ...Show more
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carp ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water by FERMOR Patrick
$38.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in "A Time of Gifts" The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed int ...Show more
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, ...Show more
Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Adam (INT) Michael Henry (TRN); Thirlwell Bohumil; Heim Hrabal
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
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Category: No Category | Series: New York Review of Books Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: good
A New York Review Books OriginalWhether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there's no question that Aimee is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she's set her eyes on a backwater burg--where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to ...Show more
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the tr ...Show more
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
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Category: Special Orders | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"The Balkan Trilogy" is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. Manning's focus is not the battlefield but the cafe and kitchen, t ...Show more
Ivory Pearl by Jean-patrick Manchette; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator); Gary Indiana (Introduction by)
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Category: Special Orders | Series: New York Review Books Classics