New York Review Books

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Jeet HeerIllustration(s): Black and white illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 212Public...

Contributor(s): Author: Juan Eduardo CirlotIntroduction by: Philip PullmanTranslator: Valerie MilesA classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan pol...

DescriptionAn inclusive and expansive telling of the history of civilization from the beginning of time, by one of France's most beloved children's...

Reducere. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty...

One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, ...

DescriptionDiscover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers...

The first volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Publi...

Reducere. "There is only one pleasure, that of being alive. All the rest is misery, " wrote Cesare Pavese, whose short, intense life spanned the ordeals of f...

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Anni...

Reducere. The first extensive collection of letters written by war hero and travel writing legend Patrick Leigh Fermor. The letters in this volume span seven...

Reducere. In this spectacular follow-up to their beloved Book of Norse Myths, the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire explore the uncann...

Reducere. George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the n...

Published in 1947, as the cold war was heating up, Lionel Trilling's only novel was a prophetic reckoning with the bitter ideological disputes that...

Reducere. AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Elizabeth Taylor is finally beginning to gain the recognition due to her as one of the best English writers of the postwa...

DescriptionA star of French comics imagines America--its movie stars, its history, its fashion--in these tantalizing graphic short stories about ev...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): StendhalNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 204 x 130 x 34Cover type: Pape...

Now back in print, a beautifully illustrated collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales, including classics like Beauty and the Beast and literary...

Reducere. Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has ju...

Reducere. Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties a...

Reducere. The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whol...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Vincent KlingNumber of pages: 800Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 128 x 203 x 51Cover type:...

Robert Bresson, the director of such cinematic master-pieces as Pickpocket, A Man Escaped Mouchette, and L'Argent, was one of the most influential ...

From Galileo to today's amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who r...

DescriptionYou could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant...

The definitive collection of works by one of the Tang Dynasty's most eccentric (and badly-behaved) poets, now back in print for the first time in d...

Reducere. A Legacy is the tale of two very different families, the Merzes and the Feldens. The Jewish Merzes are longstanding members of Berlin's haute bourg...

In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ire...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Vivek NarayananNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 171 x 209 x 35Cover typ...

Reducere. Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H. Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has ...

Reducere. When Madame de Pompadour became the mistress of Louis XV, no one expected her to retain his affections for long. A member of the bourgeoisie rather...

Reducere. Captains of the City Streets is another trip into the world of the legendary Cat Club of Greenwich Village. Two adventurous young cats--Sinbad and ...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Nicole ClavelouxNumber of pages: 108Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 374 x 303 x 15Cover ty...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Aleksander WatNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 132 x 204 x 40Cover type...

Josep Pla's masterpiece, The Gray Notebook, is one of the most colorful and unusual works in modern literature. In 1918, when Pla was in Barcelona ...

Reducere. In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite sto...

Reducere. Harriet is leaving her boyfriend Claude, "the French rat." That at least is how Harriet sees things, even if it's Claude who has just asked Harriet...

Set during World War I, this monumental philosophical novel about human despair inspired Albert Camus' own writing and prefigured the greater exist...

DescriptionAvailable for the first time, Victor Serge's intimate account of the last decade of his life gives a vivid look into the Franco-Russian ...

European history of the past century is full of examples of philosophers, writers, and scholars who supported or excused the worst tyrannies of the...

Reducere. The naming of dogs can be a tricky business, as Ogdon and his big brother discover in this charming collaboration between Rhoda Levine and Edward G...

Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro and starring Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, ...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Elizabeth HardwickNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 19Cover ...

In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the res...

Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess...

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outc...

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Reducere. On March 16, 1978 Aldo Moro, a former Prime Minister of Italy, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed his escort and bundled Mo...

Reducere. Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devas...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John MasefieldIllustrator: Judith MasefieldStrange things begin to happen the minute young Kay Harker boards the train to g...

Reducere. Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean StaffordAfterword by: Kathryn DavisEight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league ...

Introduction to the life and work of the great Dane, the father of existentialism and Christian philosopher whose influence on thought is as strong...

A New York Review Books OriginalEdith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, h...

Reducere. Leonardo Sciascia was an outstanding and controversial presence in twentieth-century Italian literary and intellectual life. Writing about his nati...

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city-scapes, ...

DescriptionA unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote The Corner T...

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed g...

Publishing during the 100th Anniversary of the First World War An NYRB Classics Original The budding young Hungarian artist B la Zombory-Moldov n w...

An NYRB Classics OriginalSimon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literat...

DescriptionFrom the author of 'A Man without Qualities, ' a novel about spirituality in the modern world. Agathe is the sister of Ulrich, the restl...

Reducere. One wintry day a lonely stray cat wandered into the Royal Hotel. He chased mice so well that he was given the job of Hotel Cat. Tired of always spe...

Reducere. At once the strangest and most marvelous of Ivy Compton-Burnett's fictions, Manservant and Maidservant has for its subject the domestic life of Hor...

Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many...

AN ANTHOLOGY FROM THE AUTHOR OF STONER Poetry in English as we know it was largely invented in England between the early 1500s and 1630, and yet fo...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Chenxin JiangNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 19Cover type:...

Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Mark SchaferNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 208 x 147 x 23Cover type: ...

Considered the most inovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, Francois Cheng's Chinese Poetic Writing--now in its first expanded, English-lan...

One day in 1925 a friend asked A. J. A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced...

Anthropology is a science whose most significant discoveries have come when it has taken its bearings from literature, and what makes Paul Radin's ...