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The NYRB Classics series is dedicated to publishing an eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and experimental novels, reportage and belles lettres, tell-all memoirs and learned studies, established classics and cult favorites, literature high, low, unsuspected, and unheard of. NYRB Classics are, to a large degree, discoveries, the kind of books that people typically run into outside of the classroom and then remember for life.

Literature in translation constitutes a major part of the NYRB Classics series, simply because so much great literature has been left untranslated into English, or translated poorly, or deserves to be translated again, much as any outstanding book asks to be read again.

The series started in 1999 with the publication of Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica and by the end of 2015, over 400 titles will be in print. NYRB Classics includes new translations of canonical figures such as Euripides, Aeschylus, Dante, Balzac, Nietzsche, and Chekhov, as well fresh translations of Stefan Zweig, Robert Walser, Alberto Moravia, and Curzio Malaparte; fiction by modern and contemporary masters such as Vasily Grossman, Mavis Gallant, Daphne du Maurier, Kingsley Amis, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Wlliam H. Gass, John Williams, and Patrick Leigh Fermor; tales of crime and punishment by George Simenon, Kenneth Fearing, and Jean-Patrick Manchette; masterpieces of narrative history and literary criticism, poetry, travel writing, biography, cookbooks, and memoirs from such writers as Norman Mailer, Lionel Trilling, and Charles Simic; and unclassifiable classics on the order of J. R. Ackerley's My Dog Tulip and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. A few of our 2015 publishing highlights are Magda Szabó's The Door, Eileen Chang's Naked Earth, and Sybille Bedford's A Legacy.

Published in handsome uniform trade paperback editions, almost all NYRB Classics feature an introduction by an outstanding writer, scholar, or critic of our day. Taken as a whole, NYRB Classics may be considered a series of books of unrivaled variety and quality for discerning and adventurous readers.

Works in the WWEnd Database

2018 COMPULSORY GAMES Robert Aickman	2015 THUS WERE THEIR FACES Silvina Ocampo	2015 DEAR ILLUSION Kingsley Amis	2015 THE RIM OF MORNING William Sloane	2015 SHADOWS OF CARCOSA D. Thin	2013 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CORPSE Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
2022 TELLURIA Vladimir Sorokin	2012 STORE OF THE WORLDS Robert Sheckley	2010 MUSINGS AND MEDITATIONS Robert Silverberg	2009 MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky	2007 WHITE WALLS Tatyana Tolstaya	2011 ICE TRILOGY Vladimir Sorokin
2016 THE SLYNX Tatyana Tolstaya	2018 ONCE AND FOREVER Kenji Miyazawa	2009 THE FOUNDATION PIT Andrei Platonov	2018 THE JUNIPER TREE Barbara Comyns	2016 THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE D. G. Compton	2001 THE HAUNTED LOOKING GLASS Edward Gorey
2008 THE CHRYSALIDS John Wyndham	2003 FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS John Collier	2010 NIGHTMARE ALLEY William Lindsay Gresham	2003 THE INVENTION OF MOREL Adolfo Bioy Casares	1999 LOLLY WILLOWES Sylvia Townsend Warner	2004 MORAVAGINE Blaise Cendrars
2001 HADRIAN THE SEVENTH Frederick Rolfe	2008 THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO Carlo Collodi	2013 THE BLACK SPIDER Jeremias Gotthelf

Authors Published

• Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky  • Tatyana Tolstaya  • Vladimir Sorokin  • John Collier  • Carlo Lorenzini  • Frederick Rolfe  • Barbara Comyns Carr  • Kenji Miyazawa  • William Gresham  • Edward Gorey  • Adolfo Casares  • Silvina Ocampo  • Robert Silverberg  • David Compton  • Robert Sheckley  • Kingsley Amis  • John Harris  • Sylvia Warner  • Andrei Platonov  • Albert Bitzius  • William Sloane  • Robert Aickman  • D. Thin  • Frédéric-Louis Sauser