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A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And t ...Show more
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY by J.L. CARR
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countrysi ...Show more
A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were ...Show more
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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
AN AFRICAN IN GREENLAND by KPOMASSIE TETE-MICHEL
Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Tété-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland--and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the country of his dreams. This brilliantly observed and superbly entertaining record of his adventures among t ...Show more
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Perhaps every novelist harbors a monster at heart, an irrepressible and utterly irresponsible fantasist, not to mention a born and ingenious liar, without which all her art would go for naught. "Angel," at any rate, is the story of such a monster. Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother' ...Show more
Basic Black with Pearls by Helen Weinzweig; Sarah Weinman (Afterword by)
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad's affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. ...Show more
Between the Woods and the Water by FERMOR Patrick
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
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
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-wracked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, howe ...Show more
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
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
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Category: Self-Help | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with se ...Show more