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The Gallery by John Horne Burns
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals ...Show more
The Long Ships by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's "The Long Ships" resurrects the fantastic world of the tenth century AD when the Vikings roamed and rampaged from the northern fastnesses of Scandinavia down to the Mediterranean. Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm--canny, courageous, and above all lucky--is only a boy when he is abducte ...Show more
The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Translator); Wendell Berry (Preface by); Frances Moore Lappe (Introduction by)
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Category: Science | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of ...Show more
The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel "The Leopard" but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. "The Professor and the Siren," like "T ...Show more
The Siege of Krishnapur by James Gordon Farrell
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Winner of the Booker Prize. India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, widely considered one of the finest British novels of the last fifty years ...Show more
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In "The Summer Book" Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a t ...Show more
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, The Unknown Masterpiece is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius-or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, an ...Show more