A Book of Mediterranean Food (New York Review Books ...
 Not the best format for a cookbook: The charming little format that makes the NYRB Classics series work so well for novels and memoirs actually works against this classic cookbook. The pages are so small and tightly bound that it's practically impossible [... more]
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The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies ...
A Classic in the Field: This is one of the must-reads if you're interested in the historical literature of the field. Truth into one great whole.: If you are curious about the link between Christianity and the Fairy Faith of the Celts, this is the one [... more]
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The World of Odysseus (New York Review Books Classics ...
Unanswerable: Well, here's Finley's conclusion: Homer's stories about the Trojan War are fiction, and Schliemann's "discoveries" of Troy do not support his wild claims (despite Schliemann's other services to archaeology). Finley quotes the [... more]
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The Education Of A Gardener (New York Review Books Classics)
Essential: There's been no better book written about the art of designing a beautiful landscape, IMO. While few of us can relate to mansions on the Riveria or expansive town gardens in Paris, the principles Mr. Page talks about are an accessible [... more]
$18.95
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Classic Crimes (New York Review Books Classics)
Great tales in an unsatisfactory edition: William Roughead's accounts of great crimes from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scotland and England are about the most delicious mind candy I can think of; I opened this new edition from NYRB and almost [... more]
$19.95
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My Dog Tulip (New York Review Books Classics)
Amazon.com Review: My Dog Tulip is the ultimate bitch session--in the canine sense of the phrase, of course. In 1947, J.R. Ackerley rescued an 18-month-old German shepherd, and from the start her every look and move were to undo him. "Tulip never [... more]
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The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)
Beauty in simplicity: This book was given to me by an uncommon friend and I enjoyed it very much. It is about the friendship between a grandmother and her young grandaughter who live on a bit of an island in Finland (?). The beauty and treasures [... more]
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The Go-Between (New York Review Books Classics)
Beautiful: In the brutally hot summer of 1900, Leo Colston, aged 12, is invited by his friend Marcus Maudsley to stay at his family's estate, Brandham Hall. Marcus's sister Marian enlists Leo to carry letters back and forth between herself and her lover, [... more]
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Great Granny Webster (New York Review Books Classics)
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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Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard (New York ...
What Would Harry Flashman Make of Etienne Gerard?: The success of the Sherlock Holmes stories has overshadowed the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many other stories of entirely different character. The New York Review of Books Classics has [... more]
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The Book of My Life (New York Review Books Classics)
Perhaps best for rarefied tastes: Girolamo Cardano's THE BOOK OF MY LIFE is a very typical entry into the lists of the New York Review of Books Classics: fairly obscure except to Renaissance historians, Cardano was an enormously important Italian [... more]
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My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics)
Ackerley at his finest: The NYRB Classics series pretty much started out with a slew of reprints of the cult writer J.R. Ackerley, including his three memoirs (this, MY DOG TULIP and HINDOO HOLIDAY) and his one novel (WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU). This, I [... more]
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