NYRB Classics

The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis...

From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary. Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó?s...

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East...

T?t?-Michel Kpomassie was a teenager in Togo when he discovered a book about Greenland?and knew that he must go there. Working his way north over nearly a decade, Kpomassie finally arrived in the...

A luminous, inventive, and deeply personal exploration of living in the liminal space between Jewish and Arab, ancient and modern, by a gifted Palestinian writer. Chosen by The New York Times as one...

Asleep In The Sun (New York Review Books Classics)Author: Adolfo Bioy CasaresPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Aug 01, 2004Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome,...

Newly retranslated, this elemental novel about danger, loss, and coming of age in the natural world was the source material for the classic Disney animated film. Bambi first came out in Vienna a...

Author: Alfred D??BlinPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Mar 06, 2018Number of Pages: 480 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1681371995ISBN-13: 9781681371993

Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume. Colette?s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are...

A candid novel of love, betrayal, and friendship about a young woman who breaks with her peers, moves to London, and begins a shocking affair. ?When I was at school I used to think that everyone...

Down Below (Nyrb Classics)Author: Leonora CarringtonPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Apr 18, 2017Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1681370603ISBN-13:...

Fat City (New York Review Books Classics)Author: Leonard GardnerPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Sep 08, 2015Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

A New York Review Books Original Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and...

Generations: A Memoir (New York Review Classics)Author: Lucille CliftonPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Ghosts - 9781681375724Author: Edith WhartonPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 288 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1681375729ISBN-13: 9781681375724

A vibrant selection of poems by the great Persian mystic with groundbreaking translations by an American poet of Persian descent. Rumi?s poems were meant to induce a sense of ecstatic illumination...

Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away...

Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. With Eve?s Hollywood Eve Babitz lit up the scene in...

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a...

WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers...

A celestial overseer observes?and is continually confounded by?a young woman?s path into adulthood in this uncanny and darkly humorous novel, unpublished until now and accompanied by a selection of...

Last Words From Montmartre (New York Review Books (Paperback))Author: Miaojin QiuPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 03, 2014Number of Pages: 176 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Author: Fran??Oise Gilot, Carlton LakePublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 11, 2019Number of Pages: 384 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 168137319XISBN-13: 9781681373195

The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II. During the Second World War, as a...

Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of...

Author: Patrick Leigh FermorPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: June 06, 2006Number of Pages: 376 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1590171888ISBN-13: 9781590171882

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century...

Mrs. Palfrey At The ClaremontAuthor: Elizabeth TaylorPublisher: NYRB ClassicsPublication Date: Dec 21, 2021Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1681375648ISBN-13:...

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist?and soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her subject?s?in this chilling and singularly strange novella by a...