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By: Victor Serge
ISBN: 9781590173664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2011
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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A novel set in 1912-20, the darkest days of Petrograd. While Civil War rages, revolutionaries are trapped by their situation into destroying their own comrades. Although City and Revolution are saved, Serge questions who or what has conquered.
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By: Alberto Moravia
ISBN: 9781590171226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 9th January 1999
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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All the qualities for which Alberto Moravia is justly famous-his cool clarity of expression, his exacting attention to psychological complexity and social pretension, his still-striking openness about sex-are evident in this story of a failing marriage.
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By: Sanford Friedman
ISBN: 9781590177624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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Conversations with Beethoven, in a tour de force of fictional invention, tells the story of the last year of Beethoven's life almost entirely through such notebook entries: Friends, family, students, doctors, and others attend to the volatile Maestro, whose sometimes unpredictable and often very loud replies we infer.
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By: Caroline Blackwood
ISBN: 9781590170069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 8th January 2002
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure-and winks.
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By: Raymond Radiguet
ISBN: 9781590171387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2006
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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A playful, Wildean meringue of missed meaning and romantic tangles.
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By: Jean Genet
ISBN: 9781681373614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2020
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: Ingri
ISBN: 9781590172261
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: Ingri And Edgar D'Aulaire
ISBN: 9781590172179
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9781590173763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: David Plante
ISBN: 9781681371498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2017
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: Guido Morselli
ISBN: 9781681374765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th December 2020
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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"--
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By: CF
ISBN: 9781681378695
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2024
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: Susan Taubes
ISBN: 9781681374949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2020
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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By: Roger Duvoisin
ISBN: 9781590179642
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2016
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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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: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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