The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and belles lettres, tell-all memoirs and learned studies, established classics and cult favorites, literature high, low, unsuspected, and unheard of. NYRB Classics are, to a large degree, discoveries, the kind of books that people typically run into outside of the classroom and then remember for life.
Inevitably literature in translation constitutes a major part of the NYRB Classics series, simply because so much great literature has been left untranslated into English, or translated poorly, or deserves to be translated again, much as any outstanding book asks to be read again.
The series started in 1999 with the publication of Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica. NYRB Classics includes new translations of canonical figures such as Euripides, Dante, Balzac, and Chekhov; fiction by modern and contemporary masters such as Vasily Grossman, Mavis Gallant, Daphne du Maurier, Stefan Zweig, and Upamanyu Chatterjee; tales of crime and punishment by George Simenon and Kenneth Fearing; masterpieces of narrative history and literary criticism, poetry, travel writing, biography, cookbooks, and memoirs from such writers as Norman Mailer, Lionel Trilling, and Patrick Leigh Fermor; and unclassifiable classics on the order of J. R. Ackerley's My Dog Tulip and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. Fall 2009 sees the publication of the series' first graphic novel, Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, translated into English for the first time.
Published in handsome uniform trade paperback editions, almost all the 250 NYRB Classics included in this collection feature an introduction by an outstanding writer, scholar, or critic of our day. Taken as a whole, NYRB Classics may be considered a series of books of unrivaled variety and quality for discerning and adventurous readers.
This collection includes one each of the following titles:
A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard by Soren Kierkegaard
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
My Dog Tulip by J.R. Ackerley
My Father and Myself by J.R. Ackerley
The Other House by Henry James
Peasants and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
A Handbook on Hanging by Charles Duff
Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber
The Wooden Shepherdess by Richard Hughes
The Stories of J.F. Powers by J.F. Powers
Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Morte D'Urban by J.F. Powers
Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author by Edward John Trelawny
Wheat that Springeth Green by J.F. Powers
Classic Crimes by William Roughead
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie
The Unknown Masterpiece by Honore de Balzac
Virgin Soil by Ivan Turgenev
The Glass Bees by Ernst Junger
The Pure and the Impure by Colette
The Waste Books by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
Seven Men by Max Beerbohm
To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia
The Wine-Dark Sea by Leonardo Sciascia
Alfred and Guinevere by James Schuyler
The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
The Fox in the Attic by Richard Hughes
The Haunted Looking Glass by Edward Gorey
A House and Its Head by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Hadrian the Seventh by Fr. Rolfe
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symons
The Root and the Flower by L.H. Myers
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Letty Fox by Christina Stead
The Golovlyov Family by Shchedrin
The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye
Eustace and Hilda by L.P. Hartley
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick
A Way of Life, Like Any Other by Darcy O'Brien
As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir
An African in Greenland by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
Letters: Summer 1926 by Boris Pasternak
Mr. Fortune' s Maggot by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Selected Works of Cesare Pavese by Cesare Pavese
The Life of Henry Brulard by Stendhal
On the Yard by Malcolm Braly
Selected Stories of Robert Walser by Robert Walser
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt
The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
The Outcry by Henry James
A Book of Mediterranean Food by Elizabeth David
Letters from Russia by Astolphe De Custine
Miserable Miracle by Henri Michaux
Riders in the Chariot by Patrick White
Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
Corrigan by Caroline Blackwood
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Mary Olivier by May Sinclair
Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories by Randall Jarrell
The New Life by Dante Alighieri
The Ten Thousand Things by Maria Dermout
The Unpossessed by Tess Slesinger
The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling
The World of Odysseus by M.I. Finley
The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano
The Moon and the Bonfires by Cesare Pavese
Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
Troubles by J.G. Farrell
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Peter Handke
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
Prisoner of Love by Jean Genet
We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau
The Stuffed Owl by D.B. Wyndham Lewis
To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Scholem
Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
In Parenthesis by David Jones
Peking Story by David Kidd
Rene Leys by Victor Segalen
Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff
Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia
Equal Danger by Leonardo Sciascia
Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
The Tenants of Moonbloom by Edward Lewis Wallant
The Towers of Trebizond by Rose MacAulay
Varieties of Exile by Mavis Gallant
My Century by Aleksander Wat
The World I Live In by Helen Keller
American Humor by Constance Rourke
The Ivory Tower by Henry James
The Gallery by John Horne Burns
Paris and Elsewhere by Richard Cobb
Apartment in Athens by Glenway Wescott
Envy by Yuri Olesha
The Moro Affair by Leonardo Sciascia
Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn by Harvey Swados
Part of Our Time by Murray Kempton
The Case of Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge
Boredom by Alberto Moravia
Contempt by Alberto Moravia
The Diary of a Rapist by Evan S. Connell
Monsieur Monde Vanishes by Georges Simenon
The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse by W. H. Auden
Asleep in the Sun by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Bog People by P.V. Glob
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam by Osip Mandelstam
Cassandra at the Wedding by Dorothy Baker
The Furies by Janet Hobhouse
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
Flaubert and Madame Bovary by Francis Steegmuller
The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by W.S. Merwin
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
Blood on the Forge by William Attaway
The Child by Jules Valles
The Lord Chandos Letter by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
The Singapore Grip by J.G. Farrell
Count D'Orgel's Ball by Raymond Radiguet
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte
Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert by Joseph Joubert
The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood
Shakespeare by Mark Van Doren
The Stalin Front by Gert Ledig
Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
Between the Woods and the Water by Patrick Leigh Fermor
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Jejuri by Arun Kolatkar
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
Mouchette by Georges Bernanos
Warlock by Oakley Hall
The New York Stories of Henry James by Henry James
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
What's for Dinner? by James Schuyler
English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Conundrum by Jan Morris
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Roumeli by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
Stoner by John Williams
The Big Clock by Kenneth Fearing
Red Lights by Georges Simenon
The Jeffersonian Transformation by Henry Adams
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang
A Savage War of Peace by Alistair Horne
Clark Gifford's Body by Kenneth Fearing
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
Pages from the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
They Burn the Thistles by Yashar Kemal
Born Under Saturn by Rudolf and Margot Wittkower
The Stray Dog Cabaret by Edited by Honor Moore and Catherine Ciepiela
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
Dante by Erich Auerbach
The Slaves of Solitude by Patrick Hamilton
That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana by Carlo Emilio Gadda
The Engagement by Georges Simenon
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
White Walls by Tatyana Tolstaya
Memoirs of Montparnasse by John Glassco
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
The Education Of A Gardener by Russell Page
The Book of Ebenezer Le Page by G. B. Edwards
Sunflower by Gyula Krudy
Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon
The Goshawk by T. H. White
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton
A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
All About H. Hatterr by G. V. Desani
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Memoirs of an Anti-Semite by Gregor von Rezzori
Soul by Andrey Platonov
Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself by Robert Montgomery Bird
Poems of the Late T'ang by A. C. Graham
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton
Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge
Belchamber by Howard Sturgis
A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy
The Widow by Georges Simenon
The Post-Office Girl by Stefan Zweig
Afloat by Guy de Maupassant
The Family Mashber by Der Nister
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
Names on the Land by George R. Stewart
Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer
Inverted World by Christopher Priest
My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage by Tim Robinson
In Hazard by Richard Hughes
Victorine by Maude Hutchins
Grief Lessons by Euripides
Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter
The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling
The Queue by Vladimir Sorokin
Ringolevio by Emmett Grogan
Defeat: Napoleon’s Russian Campaign by Philippe-Paul de Segur
Don't Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm
School for Love by Olivia Manning
Chaos and Night by Henry de Montherlant
A Meaningful Life by L. J. Davis
Short Letter, Long Farewell by Peter Handke
Slow Homecoming by Peter Handke
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
The Foundation Pit by Andrey Platonov
The Complete Fiction by Francis Wyndham
The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
The Old Man and Me by Elaine Dundy
Summer Will Show by Syliva Townsend Warner
Niki by Tibor Dery
Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson
The Cost of Living by Mavis Gallant
Memories of the Future by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon
The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier