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The Thirty Years War (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $16.93 Europe in 1618 was divided between Protestants and Catholics, and Bourbon and Hapsburg ? as well... | Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) What a captivating story. A classic up-from-the-hardscrabble-farm tale. But with only ordinary... | The Unknown Masterpiece Honoré De Balzac (1799-1850) is generally credited as the inventor of the modern realistic... | Classic Crimes (New York Review Books) Best Price: $10.45 The British dote on their criminals, and, at one remove, so do we Americans. The names of Burke... | Witch Grass Best Price: $7.00 I can't begin to explain why this book is so delightful. There are plenty of places to... |
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The Fountain Overflows (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $3.99 How can these reviewers be saying all these wonderful things about a novel that few people have... | White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books) Best Price: $8.09 If the literary style genie were to suddenly appear--he's bare-chested, muscled and tattooed... | Inverted World (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $7.00 Inverted World
Christopher Priest
NYRB Classics
2008
Trade Paperback
336 pages
ISBN:... | Journey Into the Past (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $6.86 A quick note about the edition and translation: It seem Mr. Blumenau (above) refers to a... | Sleepless Nights (New York Review Books Classics) In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life?the parade of people, the shifting... |
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Paris Stories (New York Review Books Classics) A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor... | Butcher's Crossing (New York Review Books Classics) In his National Book Award?winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of... | | | |