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The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Translator); Wendell Berry (Preface by); Frances Moore Lappe (Introduction by)
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Category: Gardening | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book," Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of ...Show more
The Professor and the Siren by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original In the last two years of his life, the Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa wrote not only the internationally celebrated novel "The Leopard" but also three shorter pieces of fiction, brought together here in a new translation. "The Professor and the Siren," like "T ...Show more
The Stammering Century by Gilbert Seldes
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Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
In "The Summer Book" Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer--its sunlight and storms--into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a t ...Show more
The Thirty Years War by C. V. Wedgwood; Paul Kennedy; Anthony Grafton (Foreword by)
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Category: History | Series: New York Review Books Classics
This study of the Thirty Years War (1618 to 1648), was first published in 1938. Beginning as a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the War gradually became transformed into a struggle to determine whether the Hapsburgs would gain control of all Germany.
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac
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Category: Classics | Series: New York Review Books Classics
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, The Unknown Masterpiece is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius-or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, an ...Show more
The Way of the World by Robyn (TRN) Thierry (ILT); Marsack Patrick Leigh (INT); Vernet Nicolas; Fermor Bouvier
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Category: Travel | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original Tove Jansson was a master of brevity, unfolding worlds at a touch. Her art flourished in small settings, as can be seen in her bestselling novel "The Summer Book" and in her internationally celebrated cartoon strips and books about the Moomins. It is only natural, then, that th ...Show more
The World I Live in by Helen Keller; Roger Shattuck (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
The World I Live In by Helen Keller Helen Keller's most personal and intellectually adventurous work-one that transforms our appreciation of her extraordinary achievements. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination, w ...Show more
The World of Odysseus by Bernard (INT) M. I.; Knox Finley
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Category: Ancient History | Series: New York Review Books Classics