New Directions Classics
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The Shooting Gallery
$15.95 Read moreThe eight powerful stories of The Shooting Gallery examine the lives of single women coping with motherhood, passion, jealousy, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment.
An unwed mothe
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Tsushima, Yuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0811213560
- Language: English
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Symposium
$16.95 Read moreOne October evening five posh London couples gather for a dinner party, enjoying “the pheasant (flambe in cognac as it is)” and waiting for the imminent arrival of the late-coming guest Hilda Damien, … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #1053
- Author: Spark, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0811216594
- Language: English
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The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
$17.95 Add to cartA timeless selection of brilliant short stories that won William Saroyan a position among the foremost, most widely popular writers of America when it first appeared in 1934.With the greatest of ease … [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Saroyan, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 17 1997
- ISBN10: 081121365X
- Language: English
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Cronopios and Famas
$15.95 Add to cart“The Instruction Manual,” the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. “Unusual Occupations,” the second chapter, describes the obsessions a… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: April 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0811214028
- Language: English
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The Shooting Gallery
$15.95 Add to cartThe eight powerful stories of The Shooting Gallery examine the lives of single women coping with motherhood, passion, jealousy, and the tug-of-war between responsibility and entrapment.
An unwed mothe
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Tsushima, Yuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0811213560
- Language: English
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The Girls of Slender Means
$14.95 Add to cartLike the May of Teck Club itself–“three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit”–its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution,… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Spark, Muriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 17 1998
- ISBN10: 081121379X
- Language: English
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I Served the King of England
$17.95 Read moreFirst published in 1971 in a typewritten edition, then finally printed in book form in 1989, I Served the King of England is “an extraordinary and subtly tragicomic novel” (The New York Times), tellin… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Classics #0
- Author: Hrabal, Bohumil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2007
- ISBN10: 081121687X
- Language: English
