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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 1590170857ISBN 13: 9781590170854
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1681373068ISBN 13: 9781681373065
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590173759ISBN 13: 9781590173756
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681372800ISBN 13: 9781681372808
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590179021ISBN 13: 9781590179024
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177185ISBN 13: 9781590177181
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes-Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere- in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm- blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0940322226ISBN 13: 9780940322226
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 1590170075ISBN 13: 9781590170076
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1977Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeThis "masterful novella is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait," offering an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Literary Hub).This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece.Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 1590171179ISBN 13: 9781590171172
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172590ISBN 13: 9781590172599
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 1590170571ISBN 13: 9781590170571
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set an a mysterious island, Casares's novel weaves a complex web of plotting and narrative, building a storyJorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to .the Centre of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Suzanne Jill Levine s revision of Ruth Simm s translation offers a fresh experience of an uncanny work of genius.Inspired by Bioy Casares s fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction s now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Renais and Alain Robbe-Grillet s Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371847ISBN 13: 9781681371849
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Paperback. Condition: new. Pinkwater, Daniel (illustrator). Paperback. An ALA Notable BookKids ages 9-12 will "delight in the oddness" of this Home Alone-style tale set in the 1970s-from a prolific children's author who captures "a magic that's not like anyone else's" (Neil Gaiman).With Victor's parents out of town, he is free to investigate the mysterious lizard musicians who have recently appeared on TV . . .Things Victor loves- pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he's been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat).The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "other space"? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards' floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man. The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "Other space"? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172825ISBN 13: 9781590172827
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177819ISBN 13: 9781590177815
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics OriginalAn NYRB Classics OriginalSimone Weil-philosopher, activist, mystic-is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship of the political class present a threat to democracies all over the world. Dissecting the dynamic of power and propaganda caused by party spirit, the increasing disregard for truth in favor of opinion, and the consequent corruption of education, journalism, and art, Weil forcefully makes the case that a true politics can only begin where party spirit ends.This volume also includes an admiring portrait of Weil by the great poet Czeslaw Milosz and an essay about Weil's friendship with Albert Camus by the translator Simon Leys. Simone Weil is one of the most intransigent and taxing of spiritual masters, always willing to push her thinking-and us-one step beyond the apparently reasonable in pursuit of the one truth, the one good. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1681375060ISBN 13: 9781681375069
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Paperback. Condition: new. Berson, Harold (illustrator). Paperback. Imagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! . But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fastImagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! . But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fast. Loretta (a glum gangly girl and so very very rude!) comes home and before you know it, Colin is secretly following her down a hidden tunnel that leads from a bedroom closet to an astonishing castle, where a charming and beautiful countess keeps court attended by a dapper and ever-obliging general, and in this world everybody loves Loretta (especially when she's rude), so much so that they're begging her to stay with them forever. What is the secret behind this mysterious other world and how does it connect to the many secrets in the Mason family? It'll take a spellbinding, hair-raising adventure, involving not just Colin and Loretta but their mother and the rest of the family, to work that out. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590179188ISBN 13: 9781590179185
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal worlda miming cat, a malevolent boardisplays a mind of its own. The four houses have a dozen residentsand then there is Gagou, a mute drifter. Janet, the eldest of the men, is bedridden; he feels snakes writhing in his fingers and speaks in tongues. Even so, all is well until the village fountain suddenly stops running. From this point on, humans and the natural world are locked in a life-and-death struggle. All the elementsfire, water, earth, and aircome into play. From an early age, Jean Giono roamed the hills of his native Provence. He absorbed oral traditions and, at the same time, devoured the Greek and Roman classics. Hill, his first novel and the first winner of the Prix Brentano, comes fully back to life in Paul Epriles poetic translation. First published in French by Bernard Grasset as Colline in 1929. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681370603ISBN 13: 9781681370606
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figuresIn 1937 Leonora Carrington-later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild-was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence.In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became "the mirror of the earth"-of all worlds in a hostile universe-and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach "of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings," she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation.This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor's sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal-in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined-with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home. Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover artist Max Ernst was sent to a concentration camp, Carrington was "led across the border of Knowledge" and imprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2019
ISBN 10: 1681373785ISBN 13: 9781681373782
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1590178947ISBN 13: 9781590178942
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original from one of the most important and revered philosophers of the 19th century, Anti-Education collects five brilliant and provocative lectures that Nietzsche delivered to the public in Basel in 1872. These lectures, in a clear and precise translation by Damion Searls, question accepted ideas about education and redefine what it means to truly learn.AN NYRB Classics OriginalIn 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers-the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece-this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . .What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872.Anti-Educationpresents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world. Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, this book presents a stimulating, provocative, and thoroughly timely reckoning with one of the great problems of the day. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1681371316ISBN 13: 9781681371313
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didnt quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, shes recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comynss other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comynss novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimms macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bellas hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1681377500ISBN 13: 9781681377506
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A beautiful, wise tale about imagination, chronic illness, and friendship for young readers by an Italy's foremost children's book author.I dont think I have read anything like this before a tale of life, death, love and beauty. . . . I hope this unforgettable story finds all the readers it deserves. Philip PullmanLong, long ago, a boy lies confined by sickness to his windowless bedchambers. He can never experience the outside world, never breathe fresh air or feel the warmth of the sun on his skin, so his doting father summons a painter to embellish his rooms with beautiful murals. The artist sets to work, and soon there is a fabulous world on the walls, a colorful, shifting landscape peopled by shepherds and lovers, criss-crossed by armies and pirate ships. As the boys health fades, the artist paints on, turning the simple commission into a generous labor of love. Can he show this child the richness and beauty of the worldand of life itselfwith nothing but paints and brushes? Glowrushes is a heartbreakingly beautiful classic of Italian childrens literature. Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2012
ISBN 10: 1590175778ISBN 13: 9781590175774
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn't matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren't enough to make it through a life.Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it pulses with the music that defined an era. Baker took her inspiration from the artistry-though not the life-of legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke, and the novel went on to be adapted into a successful movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day. Dorothy Baker's Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371049ISBN 13: 9781681371047
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A time-travel story that is both a poignant exploration of human identity and an absorbing tale of suspense.Its natural to feel a little out of place when youre the new kid, but when Charlotte Makepeace wakes up after her first night at boarding school, shes baffled: everyone thinks shes a girl called Clare Mobley, and even more shockingly, it seems she has traveled forty years back in time to 1918. In the months that follow, Charlotte wakes alternately in her own time and in Clares. And instead of having only one new set of rules to learn, she also has to contend with the unprecedented strangeness of being an entirely new person in an era she knows nothing about. Her teachers think shes slow, the other girls find her odd, and, as she spends more and more time in 1918, Charlotte starts to wonder if she remembers how to be Charlotte at all. If she doesnt figure out some way to get back to the world she knows before the end of the term, she might never have another chance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1681373564ISBN 13: 9781681373560
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures.A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures.Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelg ngers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." For Kirk these stories constituted strong evidence for the reality of a supernatural world, existing parallel to ours, which, he passionately believed, demanded exploration as much as the New World across the seas. Kirk defended these views in The Secret Commonwealth, an essay that was left in manuscript when he died in 1692. It is a rare and fascinating work, an extraordinary amalgam of science, religion, and folklore, suffused with the spirit of active curiosity and bemused wonder that fills Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. The Secret Commonwealth is not only a remarkable document in the history of ideas but a study of enchantment that enchants in its own right.First published in 1815 by Sir Walter Scott, then reedited in 1893 by Andrew Lang, with a dedication to Robert Louis Stevenson, The Secret Commonwealth has long been difficult to obtain-available, if at all, only in scholarly editions. This new edition modernizes the spelling and punctuation of Kirk's little book and features a wide-ranging and illuminating introduction by the critic and historian Marina Warner, who brings out the originality of Kirk's contribution and reflects on the ongoing life of fairies in the modern mind. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1681375338ISBN 13: 9781681375335
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A selection of original translations of the great Persian poet by an up-and-coming American translator and musician.A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent.Rumi's poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination and liberation in his audience, bringing its members to a condition of serenity, compassion, and oneness with the divine. They remain masterpieces of world literature to which readers in many languages continually return for inspiration and succor, as wellas aesthetic delight. This new translation by Haleh Liza Gafori preserves the intelligence and the drama of the poems, which are as full of individual character as they are of visionary wisdom.Marilyn Hacker praises Gafori's new translations of Rumi as "the work of someone who is at once an acute and enamored reader of the original Farsi text, a dedicated miner of context and backstory, and, best of all, a marvelous poet in English." "Collection of new translations of Rumi's poems"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 1590171691ISBN 13: 9781590171691
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 emphasis on the psychological.Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story.This new translation of Chess Story brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection. "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 emphasis on the psychological. Travelers by ship from New York to Buenos Aires find that on board with them is the world champion of chess, an arrogant and unfriendly man. They come together to try their skills against him and are soundly defeated. Then a mysterious passenger steps forward to advise them and their fortunes change. How he came to possess his extraordinary grasp of the game of chess and at what cost lie at the heart of Zweig's story. This new translation of "Chess Story" brings out the work's unusual mixture of high suspense and poignant reflection. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1590179366ISBN 13: 9781590179369
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Paperback. Condition: new. Solbert, Ronni (illustrator). Paperback. "The best book about politics ever written for children." -The Washington Post 50th Anniversary Edition, now in paperbackDO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE PUSHCART WAR? THE REAL HISTORY?It's a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim, defeated a mighty foe.Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn't have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn't stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the police, and they marched right up to the grilles of those giant trucks and dared them to drive down their streets. Today, thanks to the ingenuity of the pushcart peddlers, the streets belong to the people-and to the pushcarts.The Pushcart War was first published more than fifty years ago. It has inspired generations of children and been adapted for television, radio, and the stage around the world. It was included on School Library Journal's list of One Hundred Books That Shaped the Twentieth Century, and its assertion that a committed group of men and women can prevail against a powerful force is as relevant in the twenty-first century as it was in 1964. Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The Real history? This book tells the story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim, defeated a mighty foe. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1681375044ISBN 13: 9781681375045
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Paperback. 27 illustrated short stories full of heart and whimsy, by the Carnegie Medalwinning authora perfect read-aloud collection for middle grade readers who love folklore and fairy tales. In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerfuland sometimes exceedingly sillymonarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wishes to marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.Featuring an afterword by Rumer Godden A collection of twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, chosen especially by her for this volume's first publishing in 1955. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 1590173007ISBN 13: 9781590173008
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2013
ISBN 10: 1590176294ISBN 13: 9781590176290
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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