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NYRB Classics

The NYRB Classics series is dedicated to publishing an eclectic mix of fiction and nonfiction from different eras and times and of various sorts.

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The limit [1974]

Rosalind Belben

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Our philosopher [1986]

Gert Hofmann

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Chevengur [2023]

Andreĭ Platonovich Platonov

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Telluria [2013]

Vladimir Sorokin

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Lies and sorcery [2022]

Elsa Morante

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Living pictures [2022]

Polina Barskova

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The people immortal [2022]

Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman

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Woman running in the mountains [1991]

Yūko Tsushima

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The silentiary [2022]

Antonio Di Benedetto

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The stone face [1963]

William Gardner Smith

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Mr. Beethoven [2020]

Paul Griffiths

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Nightmare alley [1946]

William Lindsay Gresham

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Storm [1941]

George Rippey Stewart

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Motley stones [2021]

Adalbert Stifter

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Ghosts [2021]

Edith Wharton

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Agathe, or the forgotten sister [2020]

Robert Musil

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Peach blossom paradise [2020]

Fei Ge

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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk : selected stories of… [2020]

N S Leskov

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Valentino and Sagittarius : two novellas [2020]

Natalia Ginzburg

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Divorcing [1969]

Susan Taubes

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No room at the morgue [2020]

Jean-Patrick Manchette

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Abigail [1970]

Magda Szabó

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The criminal child : selected essays [2020]

Jean Genet

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The juniper tree [2018]

Barbara Comyns

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Little reunions [2018]

Ailing Zhang

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Berlin Alexanderplatz [2018]

Alfred Döblin

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Compulsory games : and other stories [2018]

Robert Aickman

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Once and forever [1993]

Kenji Miyazawa

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Anniversaries : from a year in the life of… [2018]

Uwe Johnson

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Basic black with pearls [1980]

Helen Weinzweig

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Ivory pearl [2018]

Jean-Patrick Manchette

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Like death [2017]

Guy de Maupassant

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Late fame [2017]

Arthur Schnitzler

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Balcony in the forest [1987]

Julien Gracq

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Katalin Street [2017]

Magda Szabó

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Notes of a crocodile [2017]

Miaojin Qiu

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Family lexicon [2017]

Natalia Ginzburg

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Zama [2016]

Antonio Di Benedetto

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Iza's ballad [2016]

Magda Szabó

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Our spoons came from Woolworths [1950]

Barbara Comyns

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The door [2015]

Magda Szabó

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Fat city [1969]

Leonard Gardner

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Diary of a man in despair [1947]

Fritz Percy Reck-Malleczewen

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Pitch dark [2013]

Renata Adler

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Speedboat [2013]

Renata Adler

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Lucky Jim [1953]

Kingsley Amis

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Cassandra at the wedding [1962]

Dorothy Baker

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The radiance of the king [1971]

Laye Camara

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The three Christs of Ypsilanti [1964]

Milton Rokeach

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The journal, 1837-1861 [2009]

Henry David Thoreau

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The true deceiver [2009]

Tove Jansson

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Rock crystal [2008]

Adalbert Stifter

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The dud avocado [1958]

Elaine Dundy

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The enchanted April [1922]

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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Novels in three lines [2007]

Félix Fénéon

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Mouchette [2006]

Georges Bernanos

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Memed, my hawk [2005]

Yaşar Kemal

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The year of the French [1979]

Thomas Flanagan

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Blood on the forge [1941]

William Attaway

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Stoner [1965]

John Williams

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Troubles [1970]

J G Farrell

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The go-between [1953]

L P Hartley

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Manservant and maidservant [2001]

I Compton-Burnett

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A house and its head [1935]

I Compton-Burnett

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The crisis of the Negro intellectual : a… [1967]

Harold Cruse