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By: Jean Genet
ISBN: 9781681373614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Ingri
ISBN: 9781590172261
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: New York Review Books
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This remarkably beautiful volume unfolds into an 8-foot long two-sided panoramic work of art on which the animals of the world are rendered in vibrant color and the moonlit shades of night.
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By: Ingri d'Aulaire
ISBN: 9781681377889
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2023
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Ingri And Edgar D'Aulaire
ISBN: 9781590172179
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: New York Review Books
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D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, the spectacularly illustrated and delightfully entertaining companion volume to the much-acclaimed D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths.
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By: Agnes De Mille
ISBN: 9781590179086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Born into a family of successful playwrights and producers, Agnes de Mille was determined to be an actress. Then one day she witnessed the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova, and her life was altered forever. This memoir records the difficulties she faced - the resistance of her parents, the sacrifices of her training.
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By: Erich Auerbach
ISBN: 9781590172193
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Feb 2007
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2007
Publisher: New York Review Books
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An inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets and a brilliantly argued essay in the history of ideas.
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By: Claire Malroux
ISBN: 9781681375021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9781590173763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is an undisputed masterpiece of world literature.
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By: Philippe-Paul De Sgur
ISBN: 9781590172827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Segur's account is to this day one of the greatest military disasters of all time and a masterpiece of military history, providing a vivid and unmistakable lesson about imperial hubris and its risks.
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By: Curzio Malaparte
ISBN: 9781681374161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: David Plante
ISBN: 9781681371498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In the first, Plante describes his relationship to the aging Jean Rhys, a no-holds-barred alcoholic who after years of failure has just published The Wide Sargasso Sea and is at last enjoying the recognition she should have long had. Sonia Orwell is Plante's second subject, a suave exploiter and hapless victim of her beauty and social prowess.
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By: Charles Simic
ISBN: 9781590174869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2011
Publisher: New York Review Books
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In Dime-Store Alchemy, poet Charles Simic reflects on the life and work of Joseph Cornell, the maverick surrealist who is one of America's great artists. Simic's spare prose is as enchanting and luminous as the mysterious boxes of found objects for which Cornell is justly renowned.
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By: Dash Shaw
ISBN: 9781681375694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Guido Morselli
ISBN: 9781681374765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th December 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Dissipatio HG is a surrealistic fantasy novel where humankind disappears leaving its cities behind; only the narrator remains, and he wanders between Italy and Switzerland, contemplating the empty cities"--
(Hardback)
By: CF
ISBN: 9781681378695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2024
Publisher: New York Review Books
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(Paperback)
By: Susan Taubes
ISBN: 9781681374949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2020
Publisher: New York Review Books
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By: Roger Duvoisin
ISBN: 9781590179642
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Donkey-donkey has a problem. Despite his many friends and his good master, he is sad because his ears are so long and ridiculous. If only Donkey-donkey could have short sensible ears like his friend Pat the horse he would be content.
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By: Leonora Carrington
ISBN: 9781681370606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2017
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover artist Max Ernst was sent to a concentration camp, Carrington was "led across the border of Knowledge" and imprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane.
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By: Farnoosh Fathi
ISBN: 9781681371825
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2018
Publisher: New York Review Books
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(Hardback)
By: Chen Jiang Hong
ISBN: 9781681379531
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Guided by a mysterious light, Mae finally finds the magic flowers needed to cure her fatally ill mother that her family has been traveling the country in search of, only to discover they belong to an enormous dragon.
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By: Freeman Dyson
ISBN: 9781590178546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Explores issues such as global warming, to the future of biotechnology, to the flood of information in the digital age. In this book, subjects range from the seventeenth-century scientific revolution, to the scientific inquiries of the Romantic generation.
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By: Lawrence Kramer
ISBN: 9781590178621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: New York Review Books
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As soon as the war ended in 1865, Whitman published the book, which includes some of his tenderest and most haunting poems. This book introduces readers to one of Whitman's achievements, a profoundly moving work of witness, courage, and lament.
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By: Joan Chase
ISBN: 9781590177150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: New York Review Books
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During the Reign of the Queen of Persia is deeply rooted in its particular time and place, as the local, rural, and hardscrabble world the girls are born into remakes itself into a materially rich suburb, indistinguishable from so many others.
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By: Jamey Gambrell
ISBN: 9781681371627
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2018
Publisher: New York Review Books
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Presents a collection of essays published in the Russian emigre press after Tsvetaeva left Moscow in 1922. This title provides into the sources and methodology of her difficult poetic language. In addition, they supply an eyewitness account of a dramatic period in Russian history.
