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Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which "Jakob von Gunten" is widely recognized as the finest. The book ...Show more
Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life by Gillian Rose
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: New York Review Books Classics | Reading Level: very good
Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and endurance of love, love that becomes real and endures through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back o ...Show more
MAKERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE by FILLER MARTIN
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Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through his illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our ...Show more
Mani Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its pe ...Show more
Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson; Louis Menand (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked sto ...Show more
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber ...Show more
Miami and the Siege of Chicago : An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer
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Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon
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Category: Special Orders | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Monsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything. Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimps, with thieves and their marks. A whole new world, where he ...Show more
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars (tr. Alan Brown)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch--except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify hi ...Show more
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This selection of Gallant's stories gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
Red Shift by Alan Garner
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Category: Special Orders | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In second-century Britain, Macey and a gang of fellow deserters from the Roman army hunt and are hunted by deadly local tribes. Fifteen centuries later, during the English Civil War, Thomas Rowley hides from the ruthless troops who have encircled his village. And in contemporary Britain, Tom, a precocio ...Show more
Roumeli Travels in Northern Greece by FERMOR PATRICK LEIGH
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Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Roumeli is not to be found on present-day maps. It is the name once given to northern Greece--stretching from the Bosporus to the Adriatic and from Macedonia to the Gulf of Corinth, a name that evokes a world where the present is inseparably bound up with the past. Roumeli describes Patrick Leigh Fermo ...Show more