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A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water" continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carp ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water by FERMOR Patrick
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Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Continuing the epic foot journey across Europe begun in "A Time of Gifts" The journey that Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on in 1933--to cross Europe on foot with an emergency allowance of one pound a day--proved so rich in experiences that when much later he sat down to describe them, they overflowed int ...Show more
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
BY THE AUTHOR OF STONERWill Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, ...Show more
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"Chess Story," also known as "The Royal Game," is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphas ...Show more
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Gabriel Chevallier
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 1915: Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the tr ...Show more
Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
"The Balkan Trilogy" is the story of a marriage and of a war, a vast, teeming, and complex masterpiece in which Olivia Manning brings the uncertainty and adventure of civilian existence under political and military siege to vibrant life. Manning's focus is not the battlefield but the cafe and kitchen, t ...Show more
In Love by Alfred Hayes
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
New York in the 1950s. A man on a barstool is telling a story about a woman he met in a bar, early married and soon divorced, her child farmed out to her parents, good-looking, if a little past her prime. They'd gone out, they'd grown close, but as far as he was concerned it didn't add up to much. He wa ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihaly's honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man zooms up on a motorcycle as the co ...Show more
MAKERS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE by FILLER MARTIN
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Category: Architecture | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Everyone knows what modern architecture looks like, but few understand how this revolutionary new form of building emerged little more than a century ago or what its aesthetic, social, even spiritual aspirations were. Through his illuminating studies of the leading men and women who forever changed our ...Show more
Mani Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Travel Writing | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Mani, at the tip of Greece's-and Europe's-southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its pe ...Show more
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This selection of Gallant's stories gathers the best of her many stories set in Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Here she writes of expatriates and locals, exile and homecoming, and of the illusions of youth and age, offering a kaleidoscopic impression of the world within a world that is Paris.
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
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Category: Crime | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of si ...Show more