New Directions Pearls
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
$10.95 Read moreThe Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “fast-movin
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220370
- Language: English
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Tropisms
$11.95 Read moreHailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls
- Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0811222764
- Language: English
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The Walk
$12.95 Read moreA pseudo-biographical “stroll” through town and countryside rife with philosophical musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser’s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writin… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Walser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 23 2012
- ISBN10: 811219925
- Language: English
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Morphine
$11.95 Read moreYoung Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasevich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0811221687
- Language: English
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In Search of Duende
$11.95 Add to cartThe notion of “duende”–a demonic earth spirit embodying irrationality, earthiness, and a heightened awareness of death–became a cornerstone of Lorca’s poetics. In Search of Duende gathers Lorca’s wr… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Garcia Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0811218554
- Language: English
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Everything and Nothing
$11.95 Add to cartEverything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work–written in the 1930s and ’40s–that foresaw the internet (“Tl?, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of F… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 081121883X
- Language: English
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Spring and All
$14.95 Add to cartSpring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Pearls
- Author: Williams, William Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0811218910
- Language: English
