Browse Books | New York Review Books

Detailed View | List View

Title	Author	Description
The Anatomy of Melancholy Anatomy of Melancholy	Robert Burton Burton	One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Contributors: William H. Gass
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Anglo-Saxon Attitudes	Angus Wilson Wilson	"After Evelyn Waugh, what? The answer is Angus Wilson, a master of mimicry, diction, intention and wit." —Edmund Wilson Contributors: Jane Smiley
Animal Liberation Animal Liberation	Peter Singer Singer	"Singer's documentation is unrhetorical and unemotional, his arguments tight and formidable, for he bases his case on neither personal nor religious nor highly abstract philosophical principles, but on moral positions most of us already accept."—The New York Times Book Review
Apartment in Athens Apartment in Athens	Glenway Wescott Wescott	In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott offers an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity. Contributors: David Leavitt
As a Man Grows Older As a Man Grows Older	Italo Svevo Svevo	A brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. Contributors: James Lasdun , Beryl de Zoete
Asleep in the Sun Asleep in the Sun	Adolfo Bioy Casares Casares	Bioy Casares's strange, sly novel may be read as a fable of modern politics or as a meditation on the elusive parameters of the self. Above all, it is an almost scarily perfect comic turn, as well as a pure delight. Contributors: James Sallis , Suzanne Jill Levine
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Autobiography of an Unknown Indian	Nirad C. Chaudhuri Chaudhuri	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is an astonishing work of self-discovery and the revelation of a peerless and provocative sensibility. Contributors: Ian Jack
The Backward Day Backward Day	Ruth Krauss Krauss	The author of The Carrot Seed and the illustrator of Nate the Great, who together produced the Caldecott Award-winning The Happy Day, reunite for this charming story of a little boy who decides to live the day in reverse, from putting his underclothes on over his coat and pants to greeting his family at the breakfast table with a "Good night!" Contributors: Marc Simont
The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily Bear	Dino Buzzati Buzzati	Dino Buzzati's classic tale chronicles the terrible winter that sent the starving bears down into the valley in search of food, as well as their struggles with an army of wild boars, a wily professor who may or may not be a magician, snarling Marmoset the Cat, and, worse still, treachery within their own ranks.
The Bear and the People Bear and the People	Reiner Zimnik Zimnik	Profound in its simplicity, the tale is also a tribute to man's devotion to God and the goodness of the human soul.