NYRB Classics
The Sun King
Nancy Mitford, introduction by Philip Mansel
Nancy Mitford crafts a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, recreating the daily life of the King, his court, and his ministers during France’s golden age. “Nancy Mitford gives vivid, indeed searching, portraits of the Grand Monarch, and of his awe-struck relations and courtiers…. Readers will wish that her book were twice as long. —Sunday Times
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Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Victor Serge, foreword by Adam Hochschild, translated from the French by Peter Sedgwick with George Paizis
NYRB ClassicsPerpetually fighting injustice, and seemingly always at odds with those in power, Victor Serge lived a life dedicated to revolution. Here the novelist tells his own story. Born to Russian exiles in Belgium, Serge took an active role in the Russian Revolution, though he was soon disenchanted with it and was expelled to France. From there Serge narrowly escaped the Nazis, ending up in the country that was to be his final refuge, Mexico.
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Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley
Robert Sheckley, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem and Alex Abramovich
NYRB ClassicsAn original collection of stories from an overlooked master. “One of the few acknowledged humorists in SF, and by far the funniest, Sheckley plays with myths the way Mel Brooks plays with classic movies.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Taka-chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan by Runcible
Betty Jean Lifton, photographs by Eikoh Hosoe
The New York Review Children’s CollectionRuncible the Weimeraner digs a hole from Cape Cod to Japan, where he discovers Taka-chan, a little girl imprisoned by a sea dragon. Runcible will do anything to free his new friend the two head to Toyko, there to answer the dragon’s challenge to find the most loyal creature in all the land.
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Amsterdam Stories
Nescio, introduction by Joseph O’Neill, translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls
NYRB ClassicsThe first English-language translation of a writer whose growing reputation and cult readership have marked him as a figure in world literature. Nescio’s stories are inhabited by wastrels and charmers, the young and the no-longer-young, the bourgeois and the bohemian. He is a great stylist, capturing the mercantile city of Amsterdam and its bucolic surrounding countryside with equal vitality.
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May 7, 2012
From May 7 to May 13th, we are celebrating Children's Book Week, the longest running literacy initiative in the country. Children's Book Week was established in 1919 with the belief that children's literature and literacy have the power to change lives.
April showers bring May flowers—and May birthdays!
May 7, 2012
May Day wasn't the only celebration at the beginning of this month—there are also four literary birthdays: Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), Charles Simic.
Amsterdam Stories in the Bay Area and Boston
May 3, 2012
NYRB is traveling to Bukovina—and we want you to come for the trip
April 20, 2012
On May 6th, NYRB invites you to make that lively visit to Bukovina—Gregor von Rezzori's home, and the real-life inspiration for the fictional Czernopol.
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April 13, 2012
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