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Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States (New York Review Books Classics) by George R Stewart Publisher Comments George R. Stewart's classic study of place-naming in the United States was written during World War II as a tribute to the varied heritage of the nation's peoples. More than half a century later, Names on the Land remains the authoritative source on its... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy Publisher Comments "The Dud Avocado "follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy's Sally Jay Gorce who... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rogue Male (New York Review Books Classics) by Geoffrey Household Publisher Comments 1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator's private compound. He does. He has the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes Publisher Comments Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Time of Gifts (New York Review Books Classics) by Patrick Leigh Fermor Publisher Comments At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey--to walk to Constantinople." A Time of Gifts" is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which "Between the Woods and the Water... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics) by Curzio Malaparte Publisher Comments Curzio Malaparte was a disaffected supporter of Mussolini with a taste for danger and high living. Sent by an Italian paper during World War II to cover the fighting on the Eastern Front, Malaparte secretly wrote this terrifying report from the abyss... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.86 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Pure and the Impure by Sidonie-Gabriel Colette Publisher Comments Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.06 Sale - Trade Paper
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Stoner (New York Review Books Classics) by John Edwar Williams Publisher Comments William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.46 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig Publisher Comments The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in the years just after the Great War. One afternoon, as she is dozing among the official forms and stamps, a telegraph arrives addressed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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Don't Look Now: Selected Stories of Daphne Du Maurier by Daphne Du Maurier Publisher Comments An NYRB Original Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life--love, grief, jealousy--into the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.16 Sale - Trade Paper
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Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Pavlo Chekhov Publisher Comments The ever maturing art and ever more ambitious imaginative reach of Anton Chekhov, one of the world's greatest masters of the short story, led him in his last years to an increasingly profound exploration of the troubled depths of Russian society and life.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.96 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Towers of Trebizond (New York Review of Books Classics) by Rose Macaulay Publisher Comments 'Take my camel, dear, ' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass. So begins The Towers of Trebizond, the greatest novel by Rose Macaulay, one of the eccentric geniuses of English literature. In this fine and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.46 Sale - Trade Paper
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English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee Publisher Comments Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon Publisher Comments Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.80 Sale - Trade Paper
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Novels in Three Lines (New York Review Books Classics) by Felix Feneon Publisher Comments A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL "Novels in Three Lines" collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906--true stories of murder, mayhem, and everyday life presented with a ruthless economy that... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares Publisher Comments Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.06 Sale - Trade Paper
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Niki: The Story of a Dog (New York Review Books Classics) by Tibor Dery Publisher Comments The Dog adopted the Ancsas in the spring of '48: so the story begins. The Ancsas are a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Budapest in a ruinous Hungary that is just beginning to wake up from the nightmare of World War II. The new Communist... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.46 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) by J G Farrell Publisher Comments Winner of the booker prize. India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell's "The Siege of Krishnapur," widely considered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.16 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics) by Tove Jansson Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant Publisher Comments A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker for close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade. Michael... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $11.16 Sale - Trade Paper
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