New Directions Classic – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien New Directions Classic. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
13 produkter
Girls of Slender Means
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 1998
180 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that …
Bread in the Wilderness
Häftad, 1997
208 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bread in the Wilderness sets forth Merton's belief that "the Psalms acquire, for those who know how to enter into them, a surprising depth, a marvelous and inexhaustible actuality. They are bread, miraculously provided by Christ, to feed those who have followed Him into the wilderness." Merton's …
Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
Häftad, 1997
276 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease William Saroyan flew across the literary skies in 1934 with the publication of The Daring Young Man …
Conversations in Sicily
Häftad, 2000
256 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It stands as a modern classic not only for its powerful thematic resonance as one of the great novels of Italian anti-fascism but also as a trailblazer for its style, which blends literary modernism with the pre-modern fable in a prose of lyric beauty. Comparing Vittorini's work to Picasso's, Italo …
Robinson
Av Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2003
181 kr
Lägg i varukorg
January Marlow, a heroine with a Catholic outlook of the most unsentimental stripe, is one of three survivors out of twenty-nine souls when her plane crashes, blazing, on Robinson's island. Presumed dead for months, the three survivors must wait for the annual return of the pomegranate boat. …
Accompanist
Av Nina Berberova, Marian Schwartz
Häftad, 2003
157 kr
Tillfälligt slut
A spellbinding short novel set in post-revolutionary Russia about a young girl's jealousy. The fifth book of Nina Berberova to be published by New Directions, The Accompanist, written in 1936, proved to be a literary phenomenon in Europe where it was first published. A spellbinding, short novel set …
Levin's Mill
Av Johannes Bobrowski, Janet Cropper
Häftad, 1996
138 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Johannes Bobrowski (1917-1965) is known as one of Germany’s greatest writers. His first novel, set in a West Prussian village in 1874, tells the story of the narrator’s grandfather, who plots and schemes to ruin the Jewish newcomer who has built a mill downstream from him. With splendid irony, …
Da Vinci's Bicycle
Häftad, 1997
142 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Esteemed writer and translator Guy Davenport's brilliant story collection, first published in 1979, is recognized today as a classic of American fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or …
Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer: Novel
Häftad, 1999
208 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Can you imagine why a pornographer would be shy? Are you satisfied with the state of (a) World Society (b) your soul (c) American writing? Are you in the habit of reading books that could have been written by anybody? Do you really want the truth? Do you know how angels learn to fly? What would you …
Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
Av Nina Berberova, Marian Schwartz
Häftad, 2001
180 kr
Tillfälligt slut
The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. …
Foreign Mud
History
Häftad, 2002
174 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Another enduring work by the brilliant historian Maurice Collis. First published in 1946 and long out of print, Foreign Mud is a marvelous historical reconstruction of the events surrounding the illegal trade of opium in Canton during the 1830s and the Opium Wars between Britain and China that …
Fortress Besieged
Häftad, 2004
266 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, our hapless hero Fang Hung-chien (á la Emma Bovary), with no particular goal in life and with a bogus degree from a fake American university in hand, returns home to Shanghai. On the French liner home, he meets two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao. …
Crossings
Av Chuang Hua
Häftad, 2007
180 kr
Tillfälligt slut
When it was first published in America in 1968, Chuang Hua’s evocative novel Crossings was completely unheralded and quickly went out of print. Years later it would be widely recognized as the first modernist novel to address the Asian-American experience, its deeply imagistic prose–marked by …
