Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2004
ISBN 10: 1590171187 ISBN 13: 9781590171189
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. A gift? Yes-a gift for you. You're welcome.-from the introduction by Daniel HandlerNonsense Novels sends up the silliest conventions of the ghost story, the detective story, the rags-to-riches story, the adventure story, the shipwreck story, and, of course, the story itself. Among other things. Here the close cultivation of cliché yields a bumper crop of absurdity and the utterly ludicrous turns up at every new twist of the tale.This is a satirical masterpiece. Stephen Leacock was a genius.
Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 1999
ISBN 10: 0940322196 ISBN 13: 9780940322196
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Edition Unstated. The Horse's Mouth, the third and most celebrated volume of Joyce Cary's First Trilogy, is perhaps the finest novel ever written about an artist. Its painter hero, the charming and larcenous Gulley Jimson, has an insatiable genius for creation and a no less remarkable appetite for destruction. Is he a great artist? a has-been? or an exhausted, drunken ne'er-do-well? He is without doubt a visionary, and as he criss-crosses London in search of money and inspiration the world as seen though his eyes appears with a newly outrageous and terrible beauty.
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 1999
ISBN 10: 0940322110 ISBN 13: 9780940322110
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. New Ed. J.R. Ackerley's German shepherd Tulip was skittish, possessive, and wild, but he loved her deeply. This clear-eyed and wondering, humorous and moving book, described by Christopher Isherwood as one of the "greatest masterpieces of animal literature," is her biography, a work of faultless and respectful observation that transcends the seeming modesty of its subject. In telling the story of his beloved Tulip, Ackerley has written a book that is a profound and subtle meditation on the strangeness abiding at the heart of all relationships.
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322560 ISBN 13: 9780940322561
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Main. This powerful short novel describes the events of a single afternoon. Alwyn Towers, an American expatriate and sometime novelist, is staying with a friend outside of Paris, when a well-heeled, itinerant Irish couple drops in-with Lucy, their trained hawk, a restless, sullen, disturbingly totemic presence. Lunch is prepared, drink flows. A masquerade, at once harrowing and farcical, begins. A work of classical elegance and concision, The Pilgrim Hawk stands with Faulkner's The Bear as one of the finest American short novels: a beautifully crafted story that is also a poignant evocation of the implacable power of love.
Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 1999
ISBN 10: 094032217X ISBN 13: 9780940322172
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Herself Surprised, the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly. With no regrets, Sara reviews her changing fortunes, remembering the drudgery of domestic servitude, the pleasures of playing the great lady in a small provincial town, and the splendors and miseries of life as the model, muse, and mistress of the painter Gulley Jimson.
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2006
ISBN 10: 1590171802 ISBN 13: 9781590171806
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. Euripides, the classicist Bernard Knox has written, was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so. His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless-women and children, slaves and barbarians-for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides latest tragedies.Four of those tragedies are here presented in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektors widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: Tragedy: A Curious Art Form and Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.
Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2004
ISBN 10: 1590171128 ISBN 13: 9781590171127
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
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Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 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, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding.Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken-at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother, as she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has.First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a book of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind.
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 1999
ISBN 10: 0940322188 ISBN 13: 9780940322189
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2005
ISBN 10: 1590171497 ISBN 13: 9781590171493
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2007
ISBN 10: 1590171950 ISBN 13: 9781590171950
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
Zustand: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2001
ISBN 10: 0940322838 ISBN 13: 9780940322837
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2002
ISBN 10: 1590170113 ISBN 13: 9781590170113
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. First Paperback Edition. The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right.
Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2002
ISBN 10: 0940322986 ISBN 13: 9780940322981
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2004
ISBN 10: 1590170946 ISBN 13: 9781590170946
Anbieter: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, USA
Zustand: new.
Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2010
ISBN 10: 1590173511 ISBN 13: 9781590173510
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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Verlag: Brand: NYRB Classics, 2006
ISBN 10: 1590171772 ISBN 13: 9781590171776
Anbieter: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, USA
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