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Cover of Pierre Reverdy
by Pierre Reverdy
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014

The great Pierre Reverdy, comrade to Picasso and Braque, peer and contemporary of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, is among the most mysteriously satisfying of twentieth-century poets, his poems an uncanny mixture of the simple and the sublime. Reverdy’s poetry has exerted a special...
Cover of Blindness
by Henry Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

Henry Green's first novel, and the book that began his career as a master of British modernism *Blindness—*Henry Green’s first novel, begun while he was still at Eton and finished before he left university—is the story of John Haye, a young student with literary airs. It starts with an...
Cover of Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015

Prometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the...
Cover of Ending Up
by Kingsley Amis
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Ending Up is a grimly hilarious dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay.  Everyone wants a comfortable...
Cover of One Fat Englishman
by Kingsley Amis
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013

The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything,...
Cover of The Widow
by Georges Simenon
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011

The Widow is the story of two outcasts and their fatal encounter. One is the widow herself, Tati. Still young, she’s never had an easy time of it, but she’s not the kind to complain. Tati lives with her father-in-law on the family farm, putting up with his sexual attentions, working her fingers...
Cover of Mouse House
by Rumer Godden
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

“Once upon a time there was a little mouse house. It was like a doll’s house, but not for dolls, for mice.” Not proper mice, but a flannel He-Mouse and She-Mouse with beady eyes and bristle whiskers who stand quite still, propped on their hind legs in the sitting room. Mary knows real mice run...
Cover of Drafts, Fragments, and Poems

Drafts, Fragments, and Poems

The Complete Poetry

by Joan Murray, John Ashbery
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

The first appearance of this award-winning writer's work since the 1940s, this collection, which includes an introduction by John Ashbery, restores Joan Murray's striking poetry to its originally intended form. Though John Ashbery hailed Joan Murray as a key influence on his work, Murray’s...
Cover of Love Sonnets and Elegies
by Richard Sieburth, Louise Labé
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014

Louise Labé, one of the most original poets of the French Renaissance, published her complete Works around the age of thirty and then disappeared from history. Rediscovered in the nineteenth century, her incandescent love sonnets were later translated into German by Rilke and appear here in a revelatory new English version by the award-winning translator Richard Sieburth.
Cover of Store of the Worlds

Store of the Worlds

The Stories of Robert Sheckley

by Robert Sheckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

An NYRB Classics Original Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth...
Cover of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
by Eugene Ostashevsky
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017

An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature. The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where...
Cover of Margaret Cavendish
by Margaret Cavendish
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019

An eclectic collection of poetry by one of 17th century England's boldest, smartest, and independent women. Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a groundbreaking writer—a utopian visionary, a scientist, a science-fiction pioneer. She moved in philosophical circles that...
Cover of The Sound of the One Hand

The Sound of the One Hand

281 Zen Koans with Answers

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016

When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook existed recording not only the riddling koans that are central to Zen teaching but also detailing the answers to...
Cover of The Little Water Sprite
by Otfried Preussler
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015

One spring day, the little Water Sprite is born in a house of reeds at the bottom of a mill pond. Duckweed soup, pickled water fleas, and other dainties are served to celebrate. The little Water Sprite grows up quickly, and soon he is bored of gazing out the window at the newts and fish swimming by....
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