Great Granny Webster
 Not worth a re-issue: NYRB Classics was started a few years ago with the intention of re-issuing neglected cult favorite books which had fallen out of print; though many of their choices have been superb, a very few leave you scratching your head, [... more]
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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Rhymes and reasons: Most of the material for this book was gathered fifty years ago in British schools, but I'm sure readers in all countries, for all time, will find it amusing and revealing. When I'd finished it, I felt I had a greater insight into [... more]
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The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies
Author: Robert Kirk Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 130 EAN: 9781590171776 ISBN: 1590171772 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2006-11-21 Release Date: 2006-11-21 [... more]
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Novels in Three Lines
Author: Felix Feneon Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 843.912 EAN: 9781590172308 ISBN: 1590172302 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2007-08-21 Release Date: 2007-08-21 [... more]
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The New York Stories of Edith Wharton
Author: Edith Wharton Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52 EAN: 9781590172483 ISBN: 1590172485 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 2007-10-09 Release Date: 2007-10-09 [... more]
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That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana
Author: Carlo Emilio Gadda Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 853.912 EAN: 9781590172223 ISBN: 1590172221 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 2007-02-27 Release Date: 2007-02-27 [... more]
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Moravagine
obscure and essential: In Henry Miller's book (the name of which escapes me) about the authors who have influenced him, he includes a list of the 100 best books he's read. However, within the book itself, he dedicates an entire chapter to the works of [... more]
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Stoner
oddly compelling account of an anti-hero, a professor.: This book defies easy categorization. It's about the son of hardscrabble and proud farmers who goes to college just before WWI to learn modern farming techniques; instead he discovers he has a [... more]
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy
Author: Patrick Hamilton Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912 EAN: 9781590172568 ISBN: 1590172566 Number Of Pages: 528 Publication Date: 2008-02-19 Release Date: 2008-02-19 [... more]
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Shelley: The Pursuit
The superlative Shelley biography: As a Shelley lover I've read numerous biographies, but this will be the last one as no amount of research or writing talent can improve on this book. Richard Holmes clearly did an enormous amount of research and his [... more]
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Miami and the Siege of Chicago
mildly interesting: There's something really disconcerting about reading the nonfiction of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee wherein they describe events at which they are clearly in attendance but write in the third person. Someone must be overhearing the [... more]
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My Father and Myself
Two Lives, One Lesson: My Father and Myself, by J.R. Ackerley, lends insight into the minds of two men, both curious and proud, both leading secret lives. The book, in reality, is two parallel stories that merge into one. Both stories attribute the same [... more]
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