Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto, Paperback - Abraham Cahan

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Reducere. Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of Yiddish New York brings together several stories by one of the preeminent American Jewish wri...

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

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First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America's finest and boldest writers of fictio...

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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories brings together eighty-one brief texts spanning Robert Walser's career, from pieces conceived amid his early...

Reducere. DescriptionTable of Contents: - The Voice Of The City - The Making Of A New Yorker - A Retrieved Reformation - The Cop And The Anthem - The Duplici...

DescriptionThe first English-language collection of a contemporary Russian master of the short story, recenly profiled in The New Yorker Maxim Osip...

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Henry JamesNumber of pages: 340Publication date: 1999Dimensions: 203 x 129 x 21Cover type: P...

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Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Abraham SutzkeverIllustration(s): 2 maps, 20 illustrationsNumber of pages: 488Publication date...

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peaco...

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Reveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global power The year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black li...

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

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This newly edited volume collects six of her greatest 'Seen and Unseen' stories - Oliphant's most popular series in her day - and includes a new in...

No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans...

Reducere. Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experi...

DescriptionAvailable in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

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Reducere. A tragic - and largely forgotten - event following the liberation of Korea occurred on Jeju Island in 1948. An event now called "The Jeju Massacre"...

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"How the Other Half Lives" is a chronicle of the conditions of abject poverty that the residents of the slums of New York at the end of the 19th ce...

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...

Now a #1 New York Times BestsellerIn the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project -to single-handedly create a photo...

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): New York Times MagazineNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 23Cover type: Pa...

3 of the 38 stories here are drawn from the collection Selected Stories of Robert Walser, set in Berlin from 1905 onwards.

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Publisher: The New York Review of Books, IncAuthor(s): Frederika RandallNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 127 x 201 x 15Cover t...

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Mike Puma of the New York Post provides insight into the team's inner sanctum as only he can The New York Mets are one of the most historic teams i...