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By: Eugene Ostashevsky
ISBN: 9781681370903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th March 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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A poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to make themselves understood by people indigenous to the island, had there been any.
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By: Anton Chekhov
ISBN: 9781590178362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In 1880, while pursuing his medical studies, Chekhov took up his pen the better to support himself and his family. In the next two years, he published more than sixty stories under various pseudonyms, soon gaining a reputation as a brilliant young writer. This book deals with his life and work.
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By: Max Beerbohm
ISBN: 9781590178287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Martin Vaughn-James
ISBN: 9781681374840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Two titles bound back-to-back and inverted.
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By: Alice Provensen
ISBN: 9781681375823
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th November 2021
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Originally published: New York: Random House, 1971.
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By: Jean Merrill
ISBN: 9781590179369
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Do you know the history of the pushcart war The Real history This book tells the story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim, defeated a mighty foe.
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By: A.J.A. Symons
ISBN: 9780940322615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2001
Publisher: New York Review Books
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The Quest for Corvo is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction.
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By: Vladimir Sorokin
ISBN: 9781590172742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd October 2008
Publisher: New York Review Books
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An average day in the Soviet Union, hundreds of people are lined up for ... nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Sorokin's most approachable novel is told in snatches of dialogue that are in turn poignant and uproarious.
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By: Camara Lays
ISBN: 9781590174555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2011
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Clarence, a white man, has been shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. Flush with self-importance, he demands to see the king, but the king has just left for the south of his realm.
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By: Mark Lilla
ISBN: 9781681371160
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In profiles of Martin Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, Walter Benjamin, Alexandre Kojeve, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida, the author demonstrates how these thinkers were so deluded by the ideologies and convulsions of their times that they closed their eyes to authoritarianism, brutality, and state terror.
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By: William Gaddis
ISBN: 9781681374666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Introduction copyright 2021 by Tom McCarthy"-- Publisher.
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By: Edwin Frank
ISBN: 9781681373911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Augusto Monterroso
ISBN: 9781681378824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"The one and only novel by renowned Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso - Latin America's most expansive miniaturist, whose tiny, acid, and bracingly surreal narratives Italo Calvino has dubbed "the most beautiful stories in the world""--
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By: Joanne Turnbull
ISBN: 9781681370286
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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First inspired in the eighteenth century by the tall tales of the real Baron Hieronymus von Munchausen, the legend of Baron Munchausen soon eclipsed the fame of his living counterpart and has captivated the European imagination ever since. In this book, the Baron returns to a troubled twentieth century.
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By: Theodor Storm
ISBN: 9781590173015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Theodor Storm's novella is a gripping dramatization of the bloody reckonings that lie beneath the surface of civilization.
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By: Paul Lafargue
ISBN: 9781681376820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: William Sloane
ISBN: 9781590179062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Syd Hoff
ISBN: 9781681377414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Esther Averill
ISBN: 9781590171738
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2005
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Jenny Linsky, the famous little black cat of Greenwich Village, has never been to school before. When her master, Captain Tinker, sends her to a boarding school in the country she is a little afraid, among strangers, and so far from home.
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By: Freeman J. Dyson
ISBN: 9781590172940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Dyson profiles scientists-Newton Einstein, Teller, Feynman-whose independent thought allowed them to make great conceptual leaps.
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By: Marina Warner
ISBN: 9781681373560
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Mark Lilla
ISBN: 9781590179024
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, the author argues, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. He unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers - Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss.
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By: Antonio di Benedetto
ISBN: 9781681375625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2022
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Driss Chraibi
ISBN: 9781681373607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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