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  Introduction by Andrea Barrett

  2003

  Prisoner of Love

  jean genet

  Translated from the French by Barbara Bray

  Introduction by Ahdaf Soueif

  We Always Treat Women Too Well

  raymond queneau

  Translated from the French by Barbara Wright

  Introduction by John Updike

  Witch Grass

  raymond queneau

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Barbara Wright

  The Vet’s Daughter

  barbara comyns

  Foreword by Kathryn Davis

  Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship

  gershom scholem

  Translated from the German by Harry Zohn

  Introduction by Lee Siegel

  To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History†

  edmund wilson

  Foreword by Louis Menand

  The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse

  Selected and arranged by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee

  Introduction by Billy Collins

  Shelley: The Pursuit

  richard holmes

  With a new introduction by the author

  Fancies and Goodnights

  john collier

  Introduction by Ray Bradbury

  In Parenthesis

  david jones

  Foreword by W. S. Merwin

  Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China

  david kidd

  Preface by John Lanchester

  René Leys

  victor segalen

  Translated from the French by J. A. Underwood

  Preface by Ian Buruma

  Unknown Masterpieces: Writers Rediscover Literature’s Hidden Classics

  Edited by Edwin Frank

  Dirty Snow†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Marc Romano and Louise Varèse

  Afterword by William T. Vollmann

  The Invention of Morel

  adolfo bioy casares

  Translated from the Spanish by Ruth L. C. Simms

  Introduction by Suzanne Jill Levine

  Prologue by Jorge Luis Borges

  Illustrated by Norah Borges de Torre

  Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby

  geoffrey wolff

  With an afterword by the author

  The Day of the Owl

  leonardo sciascia

  Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver

  Introduction by George Scialabba

  Three Bedrooms in Manhattan†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Marc Romano and Lawrence G. Blochman

  Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates

  Monsieur Proust

  céleste albaret

  As told to Georges Belmont

  Translated from the French by Barbara Bray

  Foreword by André Aciman

  Equal Danger

  leonardo sciascia

  Translated from the Italian by Adrienne Foulke

  Introduction by Carlin Romano

  The Towers of Trebizond

  rose macaulay

  Introduction by Jan Morris

  Varieties of Exile: Stories*

  mavis gallant

  Selected and with an introduction by Russell Banks

  The Tenants of Moonbloom

  edward lewis wallant

  Introduction by Dave Eggers

  My Century: The Odyssey of a Polish Intellectual

  aleksander wat

  Foreword by Czesław Miłosz

  Edited and translated from the Polish by Richard Lourie

  2004

  The World I Live In

  helen keller

  Edited and with an introduction by Roger Shattuck

  The Ivory Tower

  henry james

  Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst

  With an essay by Ezra Pound

  American Humor: A Study of the National Character

  constance rourke

  Introduction by Greil Marcus

  The Gallery

  john horne burns

  Introduction by Paul Fussell

  Paris and Elsewhere: Selected Writings

  richard cobb

  Selected and with an introduction by David Gilmour

  Preface by Julian Barnes

  Apartment in Athens

  glenway wescott

  Introduction by David Leavitt

  The Moro Affair and The Mystery of Majorana

  leonardo sciascia

  Translated from the Italian by Sacha Rabinovitch

  Introduction by Peter Robb

  Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories of Harvey Swados

  harvey swados

  Preface by Grace Paley

  Introduction by Robin Swados

  Envy

  yuri olesha

  Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

  Introduction by Ken Kalfus

  Illustrations by Natan Altman

  Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties

  murray kempton

  Introduction by David Remnick

  The Case of Comrade Tulayev

  victor serge

  Translated from the French by Willard R. Trask

  Introduction by Susan Sontag

  W. H. Auden’s Book of Light Verse

  Chosen by W. H. Auden

  Preface by Edward Mendelson

  The Siege of Krishnapur

  j. g. farrell

  Introduction by Pankaj Mishra

  The Diary of a Rapist†

  evan s. connell

  Introduction by A. M. Homes

  Monsieur Monde Vanishes†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Jean Stewart

  Introduction by Larry McMurtry

  Moravagine

  blaise cendrars

  Translated from the French by Alan Brown

  Introduction by Paul La Farge

  The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved

  p. v. glob

  Translated from the Danish by Rupert Bruce-Mitford

  Introduction by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber

  The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

  osip mandelstam

  Translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown and by W. S. Merwin

  Introduction by Clarence Brown

  Asleep in the Sun

  adolfo bioy casares

  Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine

  Introduction by James Sallis

  The Furies

  janet hobhouse

  Introduction by Daphne Merkin

  Memoirs of Hecate County

  edmund wilson

  Introduction by Louis Menand

  Indian Summer

  william dean howells

  Introduction by Wendy Lesser

  Hons and Rebels

  jessica mitford

  Introduction by Christopher Hitchens

  Cassandra at the Wedding

  dorothy baker

  Afterword by Deborah Eisenberg

  The Year of the French

  thomas flanagan

  Introduction by Seamus Deane

  The Inferno of Dante Alighieri*

  dante alighieri

  Translated from the Classical Italian by Ciaran Carson

  The Late Mattia Pascal

  luigi pirandello

  Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

  Introduction by Charles Simic

  Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait

  francis steegmuller

  Introduction by Victor Brombert

  The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities

  anonymous

  Translated from the Spanish by W. S. Merwin
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  Introduction by Juan Goytisolo

  The Peregrine

  j.a. baker

  Introduction by Robert Macfarlane

  2005

  The Child*

  jules vallès

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

  The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings*

  hugo von hofmannsthal

  Selected and translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg Introduction by John Banville

  Blood on the Forge

  william attaway

  Introduction by Darryl Pinckney

  The Singapore Grip

  j.g. farrell

  Introduction by Derek Mahon

  Count D’Orgel’s Ball

  raymond radiguet

  Translated from the French by Annapaola Cancogni

  Foreword by Jean Cocteau

  War and the Iliad*

  SIMONE WEIL and RACHEL BESPALOFF

  Translated from the French by Mary McCarthy

  With an essay by Hermann Broch

  Introduction by Christopher Benfey

  Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

  angus wilson

  Introduction by Jane Smiley

  The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

  harold cruse

  Introduction by Stanley Crouch

  Memed, My Hawk

  yashar kemal

  Translated from the Turkish by Edouard Roditi

  With a new introduction by the author

  The Thirty Years War

  c.v. wedgwood

  Foreword by Anthony Grafton

  Kaputt

  curzio malaparte

  Translated from the Italian by Cesare Foligno

  Afterword by Dan Hofstadter

  They Burn the Thistles

  yashar kemal

  Translated from the Turkish by Margaret E. Platon

  Introduction by Bill McKibben

  The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert: A Selection

  joseph joubert

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Paul Auster

  Tropic Moon*†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Marc Romano

  Introduction by Norman Rush

  The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II*

  gert ledig

  Translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

  Shakespeare

  mark van doren

  Foreword by David Lehman

  A Time of Gifts, On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube

  patrick leigh fermor

  Introduction by Jan Morris

  Between the Woods and the Water, On Foot to Constantinople: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates

  patrick leigh fermor

  Introduction by Jan Morris

  The Man Who Watched Trains Go By*†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Marc Romano and D. Thin

  Introduction by Luc Sante

  Jejuri*

  arun kolatkar

  Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri

  Mouchette

  georges bernanos

  Translated from the French by J.C. Whitehouse

  Introduction by Fanny Howe

  Warlock

  oakley hall

  Introduction by Robert Stone

  The New York Stories of Henry James*

  henry james

  Selected and with an introduction by Colm Tóibín

  Chess Story*

  stefan zweig

  Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg

  Introduction by Peter Gay

  What’s for Dinner?

  james schuyler

  Afterword by James McCourt

  2006

  English, August: An Indian Story*

  upamanyu chatterjee

  Introduction by Akhil Sharma

  Conundrum

  jan morris

  Life and Fate

  vasily grossman

  Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Robert Chandler

  Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece

  patrick leigh fermor

  Introduction by Patricia Storace

  Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

  patrick leigh fermor

  Introduction by Michael Gorra

  Stoner

  john williams

  Introduction by John McGahern

  Beware of Pity

  stefan zweig

  Translated from the German by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt

  Introduction by Joan Acocella

  The Big Clock

  kenneth fearing

  Introduction by Nicholas Christopher

  Red Lights†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Norman Denny

  Introduction by Anita Brookner

  The Jeffersonian Transformation: Passages from the “History”*

  henry adams

  Introduction by Garry Wills

  Love in a Fallen City*

  eileen chang

  Translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang

  Introduction by Karen S. Kingsbury

  A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962

  alistair horne

  Clark Gifford’s Body

  kenneth fearing

  Introduction by Robert Polito

  The Strangers in the House†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury, with revisions by David Watson and others

  Introduction by P. D. James

  Pages from the Goncourt Journals

  EDMOND and JULES DE GONCOURT

  Edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Robert Baldick

  Foreword by Geoff Dyer

  The Secret Commonwealth*

  robert kirk

  Introduction by Marina Warner

  Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists

  MARGOT and RUDOLF WITTKOWER

  Introduction by Joseph Connors

  The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems*

  Translated from the Russian by Paul Schmidt

  Edited by Catherine Ciepiela and Honor Moore

  2007

  Butcher’s Crossing

  john williams

  Introduction by Michelle Latiolais

  Dante: Poet of the Secular World

  erich auerbach

  Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

  Introduction by Michael Dirda

  The Slaves of Solitude

  patrick hamilton

  Introduction by David Lodge

  That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

  carlo emilio gadda

  Translated from the Italian by William Weaver

  Introduction by Italo Calvino

  The Engagement*†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis

  Afterword by John Gray

  The Enchanted April

  elizabeth von arnim

  Introduction by Cathleen Schine

  The Slynx

  tatyana tolstaya

  Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

  White Walls: Collected Stories*

  tatyana tolstaya

  Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell and Antonina Bouis

  Memoirs of Montparnasse

  john glassco

  Introduction by Louis Begley

  The Dud Avocado

  elaine dundy

  Introduction by Terry Teachout

  The Education of a Gardener

  russell page

  Preface by Robin Lane Fox

  The Book of Ebenezer Le Page

  g.b. edwards

  Introduction by John Fowles

  Sunflower*
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  gyula krúdy

  Translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki

  Introduction by John Lukacs

  Novels in Three Lines*

  félix fénéon

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Luc Sante

  The Voyage That Never Ends: Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters

  malcolm lowry

  Edited and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

  The Goshawk

  t. h. white

  Introduction by Marie Winn

  The New York Stories of Edith Wharton*

  edith wharton

  Selected and with an introduction by Roxana Robinson

  A Time to Keep Silence

  patrick leigh fermor

  Introduction by Karen Armstrong

  Drawings by John Craxton

  All About H. Hatterr

  g.v. desani

  Introduction by Anthony Burgess

  Rogue Male

  geoffrey household

  Introduction by Victoria Nelson

  Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories

  gregor von rezzori

  Translated from the German by Gregor von Rezzori and Joachim Neugroschel

  Introduction by Deborah Eisenberg

  Soul and Other Stories*

  andrey platonov

  Translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler, with Katia Grigoruk, Angela Livingstone, Olga Meerson, and Eric Naiman

  Afterword by John Berger

  2008

  Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself

  robert montgomery bird

  Introduction by Christopher Looby

  Poems of the Late T’ang

  Translated from the Chinese and with an introduction by A. C. Graham

  Unforgiving Years*

  victor serge

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Richard Greeman

  Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky: A London Trilogy

  patrick hamilton

  Introduction by Susanna Moore

  Belchamber

  howard sturgis

  Introduction by Edmund White

  Afterword by E.M. Forster

  A Journey Round My Skull

  frigyes karinthy

  Translated from the Hungarian by Vernon Duckworth Barker

  Introduction by Oliver Sacks

  The Widow†

  georges simenon

  Translated from the French by John Petrie

  Introduction by Paul Theroux

  The Post-Office Girl*

  stefan zweig

  Translated from the German by Joel Rotenberg

  Afloat*

  guy de maupassant

  Translated from the French and with an introduction by Douglas Parmée

  The Summer Book

  tove jansson

  Translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal

  Introduction by Kathryn Davis

  The Family Mashber

  der nister

  Translated from the Yiddish by Leonard Wolf

  Introduction by David Malouf

  Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States

  george r. stewart

  Introduction by Matt Weiland

  Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968†