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    Can’t and Won’t

    Lydia Davis

    With titles like ‘A Story of Stolen Salamis’, ‘Letters to a Frozen Pea Manufacturer’, ‘A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates’, and ‘Can’t and Won’t’, this title features…

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    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

    Lydia Davis

    A collection of short fiction that is written by the winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2013.

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    Our Strangers

    Lydia Davis

    A brand new collection of short fiction from Lydia Davis, 'a trailblazer in the world of short-form prose' New Yorker

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    The End of the Story

    Lydia Davis

    With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, the author seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with…

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    Essays

    Lydia Davis

    A crystalline collection of literary essays from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Can’t and Won’t.

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    Our Strangers

    Lydia Davis

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    Our Strangers

    Lydia Davis

    A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis

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    Night Train

    A. L. Snijders

    Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fiction

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    Letters to His Neighbor

    Marcel Proust

    Now in a beautiful paperback edition, Proust's tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor, vividly translated by Lydia Davis

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    In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann’s

    Marcel Proust

    A work of Proust that is translated from French original into English.

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    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

    Lydia Davis

    Davis has been called an American virtuoso of the short story form ( Salon ). Now, for the first time, Davis’s short stories are collected in one volume, from the…

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    Looking at Pictures

    Robert Walser

    A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art

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    The Cows

    Lydia Davis

    With her trademark precision, Davis turns her eye to three beloved cows, capturing them in celebratory, delighted detail.

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    Ciento Cincuenta Cuentos Cortos

    Lydia Davis

    This anthology offers a refined selection of short prose that Lydia Davis has taken to an admirable level of stylistic perfection. The stories range between one and three pages in…

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    Essays Two

    Lydia Davis

    Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language.

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    Almost No Memory: Stories

    Lydia Davis

    Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis’s inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these stories, Davis reveals…

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    Samuel Johnson Is Indignant Test: Stories

    Lydia Davis

    From one of the true originals of contemporary American short fiction ( San Francisco Chronicle ) comes this crystalline collection of investigations into the ways in which human being perceive…

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    The End of the Story

    Lydia Davis

    With compassion, wit and what seems to be candour, the author seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and her past, but we begin to suspect, along with…

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    Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles

    Lydia Davis

    A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis

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    Essays One

    Lydia Davis

    A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis –

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    Lydia Davis

    A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis –

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    Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles

    Lydia Davis

    A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis

    In Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has…

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    Raw: The Diary of an Anorexic

    Lydia Davies

    Lydia was 19 years old and enjoying university with a loving family and great friends when she became anorexic. The doctors told her that she would die.

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    The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality

    Jonathan Evans

    The Many Voices of Lydia Davis shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist.

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    The Many Voices of Lydia Davis: Translation, Rewriting, Intertextuality

    Jonathan Evans

    The Many Voices of Lydia Davis’ shows how translation, rewriting and intertextuality are central to the work of Lydia Davis, a major American writer, translator and essayist.

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    Can’t and Won’t: Stories

    Lydia Davis (New Directions)

    A fifth collection by the author of the National Book Award finalist, Varieties of Disturbance, includes pithy one-liners, exploratory observations and letters of complaint, including A Small Story About a…

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    The New Penguin Book of American Short Stories, from Washington Irving to Lydia Davis

    Kasia Boddy

    The short story is one of the most varied genres in American literature. This title brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present…

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    Max and Milo: Life with XLH

    Rachael Jones

    Max is a boy who enjoys playing with his friends, camping with his family, and going on adventures with his dog, Milo. Max also happens to have a rare disease…

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    Essays One

    Lydia Davis

    A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis –

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    Scratches: The Rules of the Game, Volume 1

    Michel Leiris

    A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris’s masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century

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    Scraps: The Rules of the Game, Volume 2

    Michel Leiris

    The second volume of Michel Leiris’s hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis

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    Fibrils: The Rules of the Game, Volume 3

    Michel Leiris

    A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris’s renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis

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    Letters to the Lady Upstairs

    Marcel Proust

    A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour

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    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Gustave Flaubert

    Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in…

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    XY: On Masculine Identity

    Elisabeth Badinter

    Examining changing role models for masculine identity–from cowboy in the 1950s to Terminator in the 1990s, from flesh-and-blood man to machine–this book suggests that men need new role models and…

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    Two American Scenes

    Lydia Davis,Eliot Weinberger

    Part of our revived Poetry Pamphlet series, Two American Scenes features two masters of the essay discussing found material.

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    Alfred Ollivant’s Bob Son Of Battl

    Lydia Davis,Alfred Ollivant

    Alfred Ollivant’s Bob, Son of Battle is a classic tale from the borderlands between Scotland and England that has delighted generations of boys and girls.

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    The Last Man

    Maurice Blanchot

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    The Rendezvous: A Novel

    Justine L evy,Lydia Davis

    A bestseller in France, The Rendezvous is the wise and witty story of a young Parisian woman dealing with the fallout of her parents’ decadent and antic life during the…

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    Cheri and The End of Cheri

    Colette

    An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man.

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    Cheri and The End of Cheri

    Colette

    A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

    An exquisite new translation of Colette's tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much…

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    Swann’s Way

    Marcel Proust

    This text is the original translation of the first part of the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past . It paints a portrait of French society at the close…

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    Fullblood Arabian

    Osama Alomar

    A New Directions Poetry Pamphlet by one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, with an introduction by Lydia Davis

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    Letters to His Neighbor

    Marcel Proust (New Directions)

    Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor.

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    Buddy Davis’ Cool Critters of the Ice Age

    Buddy Davis,Kay Davis,Lydia Howe

    Meet 17 strange & unusual animals:

    [[The size of a car!
    [[Antlers over 12 feet long!
    [[ Monster-sized in North and South America!

    There is a lot to learn about…

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    Food & Booze: A Tin House Literary Feast

    Lydia Davis (New Directions),Stuart Dybek,Grace Paley,Francine Prose,Michelle Wildgen

    Editors have assembled a delicious collection of food and drink writing that originally appeared in Tin House magazine.

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    Security and International Law

    This book examines the extent to which international law can address the human, political, military, socio-economic, environmental and energy security risks that society faces today.

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