New Directions Pearl Series
Places of My Infancy
$14.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
From the author of the classic The Leopard, an intimate look at an Italian childhood. Buy or find out more→
The Walk
$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Robert Walser's preferred alternate version of his classic tale. In a new translation by Susan Bernofsky, The Walk is an elegant consideration of walking and the philosophical musings it engenders. Buy or find out more→
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
$12.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other “lucky” girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for Russia’s upper-crust elite. They are to be a... Buy or find out more→
On Booze
$15.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! Buy or find out more→
The Leviathan
$14.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Joseph Roth s final novella, The Leviathan, concerns a shtetl s finest coral merchant and how his dream of seeing the sea for the first time materializes at a terrible cost. Buy or find out more→
Patriotism
$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima's masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide. Buy or find out more→
Urn Burial
$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the... Buy or find out more→
Everything and Nothing
$13.95 – Paperback / New Directions Publishing Corporation
A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis... Buy or find out more→