New York Review Books classics

Newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle witness the changing world from Bucharest in the fall of 1939 and, in the weeks after the German invasion of Poland, Harriet struggles to accept she must share her husband with a wider circle of friends and acquaintances before the couple flees to Greece with a group of refugees.

Harriet's ex-boyfriend Claude had her evicted from the Greenwich Village apartment they once shared. Now she's determined to exact revenge on the louse she once loved. Lost in the flurry of her broken heart, Harriet finds an unlikely savior at the Chelsea Hotel who might just bring her back from the brink.

A collection of short stories by early twentieth-century author Saki.

The young Hungarian artist Bela Zombory-Moldovan was abroad on vacation when World War I broke out in August 1914. Called up by the army, he soon found himself hundreds of miles away, advancing on Russian lines--or perhaps on his own lines--and facing relentless rifle and artillery fire. Badly wounded, he returned to normal life, which now struck him as unspeakably strange. He had witnessed, he realized, the end of a way of life, of a whole world. Recently discovered among private papers and published here for the first time in any language, this reminiscence is a deeply moving addition to the literature of the terrible war that defined the shape of the twentieth century.

Helen Keller describes the sensations she experiences and the workings of her imagination, while arguing that the whole spectrum of the senses lies open to her through the medium of language.

A boy on the verge of manhood is used as a pawn in the illicit affair between a beautiful aristocrat and the working class farmer she loves.

Presents modern retellings of classic myths and legends from ancient Greece, including the story of Jason and the Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Antigone.

An autobiographical memoir of Lorenzo Da Ponte, who was known for composing librettos for three of Mozart's masterpieces and also wrote for Emperor Joseph II's opera company in Vienna before working as a bookseller and professor of Italian at Columbia University.

Sheppard Lee discovers he has the ability to project his soul into the bodies of dying men, taking over their lives, and uses this new power to try and find true happiness.

Draws on excerpts from letters and other writings to explore how French served as the universal language for politics and intellectual life in Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany during the eighteenth century.