The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short
View ArticleThe Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)
The Island of Doctor Moreau inspired this 1940 novella. Set on a mysterious island, The Invention of Morel is a story of suspense and exploration as well as an unlikely romance, where
View ArticleWarlock (New York Review Books Classics)
Sharpshooter Clay Blaisedell is called to Warlock, a wild frontier town, to restore order, but the more he tries to fix the town's problems, the more the town plunges into chaos all
View ArticleAlien Hearts (New York Review Books Classics)
The last novel the author completed before he died is presented in a new translation, in which a man remains infatuated with a worldly, but standoffish, woman after he is rebuffed by
View ArticleA Way of Life, Like Any Other (Paperback, New edition)
The hero of Darcy O'Brien's "A Way of Life, Like Any Other" is a child of Hollywood, and once his life was a glittery dream. His father starred in Westerns. His mother
View ArticleHadrian the Seventh (New York Review Books Classics)
One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. The previous English
View ArticleBelchamber (New York Review Books Classics)
Charles Edwin William Augustus Chambers-Marquis and Earl of Belchamber, Viscount Charmington, and Baron St. Edmunds and Chambers-known familiarly as Sainty, is the scion of an ancient English...
View ArticleSunflower (New York Review Books Classics)
Gyula Krdy is a marvelous writer who haunted the taverns of Budapest and lived on its streets while turning out a series of mesmerizing, revelatory novels that are among the masterpieces of
View ArticleClark Gifford's Body (New York Review Books Classics)
Back in Print After Fifty Years Clark Gifford? A cipher. A disaffected, vaguely idealistic politician in a nameless media-driven modern state where representative politics has dwindled to the corrupt...
View ArticleThe Family Mashber (New York Review Books Classics)
First time in Paperback The Family Mashber is a protean work: a tale of a divided family and divided souls, a panoramic picture of an Eastern European town, a social satire, a
View ArticleAs a Man Grows Older (New York Review Books Classics)
Emilio Brentani, once a promising young author, is now a middle-aged insurance agent. His shattered dreams find an improbable focus in the person of Angiolina, an utterly gorgeous, vaguely charming...
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