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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2004
ISBN 10: 1590170857ISBN 13: 9781590170854
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1681373068ISBN 13: 9781681373065
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590173759ISBN 13: 9781590173756
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590179021ISBN 13: 9781590179024
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, 2021
ISBN 10: 1681372800ISBN 13: 9781681372808
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 159017965XISBN 13: 9781590179659
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2011
ISBN 10: 1590174445ISBN 13: 9781590174449
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0940322226ISBN 13: 9780940322226
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1590177185ISBN 13: 9781590177181
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do.Gass writes-Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere- in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm- blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590179943ISBN 13: 9781590179949
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Paperback. Condition: new. Lindsay, Norman (illustrator). Paperback. Now in paperback The Magic Pudding is a pie, except when it's something else, like a steak, or a jam doughnut, or an apple dumpling, or whatever its owner wants it to be. And it never runs out. No matter how many slices you cut, there's always something left over. It's magic. But the Magic Pudding is also alive. It walks and it talks and it's got a personality like no other. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum (the koala bear) finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff (the penguin bold) as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding." Wild and woolly, funny and outrageously fun, The Magic Pudding stands somewhere between Alice in Wonderland and The Stinky Cheese Man as one of the craziest books ever written for young readers. A meaner, sulkier, snider, snarlinger Pudding you've never met. So Bunyip Bluegum finds out when he joins Barnacle Bill (the sailor) and Sam Sawnoff as members of the Noble Society of Pudding Owners, whose "members are required to wander along the roads, indulgin' in conversation, song and story, and eatin' at regular intervals from the Pudding." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371855ISBN 13: 9781681371856
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Paperback. Condition: new. Blake, Quentin (illustrator). Paperback. If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you havent met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting accolades from children and adults for going on fifty years. Unimaginably rich, invariably swathed in a magnificent purple dressing-gown, Uncle oversees a vast ramshackle castle full of friendly kooks while struggling to fend off the sneak attacks of the incorrigible (and ridiculous) Badfort Crowd. Each Uncle story introduces a new character from Uncles madcap world: Signor Guzman, careless keeper of the oil lakes; Noddy Ninety, an elderly train conductor and the oldest student of Dr. Lyres Select School for Young Gentlemen; the proprietors of Cheapmans Store (where motorbikes are a halfpenny each) and Dearmans Store (where the price of an old milk jug goes up daily); along with many others. But for every delightful friend of Uncle, there is a foe who is no less deliriously wicked. Luckily the misbegotten schemes of the Badfort Crowd are no match for Uncles superior wits. Quentin Blakes quirky illustrations are the perfect complement to J.P. Martins stories, each one of a perfect length for bedtime reading. Lovers of Roald Dahl and William Steig will rejoice in Uncles wonderfully bizarre and happy world, where the good guys always come out on top, and once a year, everybody, good and bad, sits down together for an enormous Christmas feast. Relates various adventures of Uncle, the millionaire elephant, who rules over the kingdom of Homeward while wearing a purple dressing gown. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2002
ISBN 10: 1590170075ISBN 13: 9781590170076
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1977Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeThis "masterful novella is equal parts macabre fairy-tale and blackly humorous family portrait," offering an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats (Literary Hub).This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece.Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2005
ISBN 10: 1590171179ISBN 13: 9781590171172
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172590ISBN 13: 9781590172599
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2003
ISBN 10: 1590170571ISBN 13: 9781590170571
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Set an a mysterious island, Casares's novel weaves a complex web of plotting and narrative, building a storyJorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to .the Centre of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Suzanne Jill Levine s revision of Ruth Simm s translation offers a fresh experience of an uncanny work of genius.Inspired by Bioy Casares s fascination with the movie star Louise Brooks, The Invention of Morel has gone on to live a secret life of its own. Greatly admired by Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Octavio Paz, the novella helped to usher in Latin American fiction s now famous postwar boom. As the model for Alain Renais and Alain Robbe-Grillet s Last Year in Marienbad, it also changed the history of film. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681371847ISBN 13: 9781681371849
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Paperback. Condition: new. Pinkwater, Daniel (illustrator). Paperback. An ALA Notable BookKids ages 9-12 will "delight in the oddness" of this Home Alone-style tale set in the 1970s-from a prolific children's author who captures "a magic that's not like anyone else's" (Neil Gaiman).With Victor's parents out of town, he is free to investigate the mysterious lizard musicians who have recently appeared on TV . . .Things Victor loves- pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B movies aired at midnight, the evening news. And with his parents off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has plenty of time to indulge himself and to try a few things he's been curious about. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man (a reference to his companion, an intelligent hen named Claudia who lives under his hat).The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians (real lizards, not men in lizard suits) who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "other space"? Together Victor and the Chicken Man, guided by the able Claudia, journey to the lizards' floating island, a strange and fantastic place that operates with an inspired logic of its own. Exploring the nearby city of Hogboro, he runs into a curious character known as the Chicken Man. The Chicken Man speaks brilliant nonsense, but he seems to be hip to the lizard musicians who've begun appearing on Victor's television after the broadcast of the late-late movie. Are the lizards from outer space? From "Other space"? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1681370077ISBN 13: 9781681370071
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Paperback. Condition: new. Williams, Garth (illustrator). Paperback. Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassadors son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley. Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle. Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now to Norway. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. It will take everything theyve got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet. Margery Sharps classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams. Sharp's classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do--featuring mouse heroes Miss Bianca and Bernard and basis for the Disney animated motion picture--is amply and beautifully illustrated by Williams. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1681375060ISBN 13: 9781681375069
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Paperback. Condition: new. Berson, Harold (illustrator). Paperback. Imagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! . But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fastImagine how shocked you would be if, like ten-year-old Colin Mason, you were the oldest (smartest, best) kid in a family of four, and then you found out that all these years, without knowing it, you've had an older sister, an "awful, awful, bad, bad, girl-Loretta Mason Potts." Who? What? Wait! . But this is only the first of many surprises that lie in store for Colin, as things get curiouser and curiouser very fast. Loretta (a glum gangly girl and so very very rude!) comes home and before you know it, Colin is secretly following her down a hidden tunnel that leads from a bedroom closet to an astonishing castle, where a charming and beautiful countess keeps court attended by a dapper and ever-obliging general, and in this world everybody loves Loretta (especially when she's rude), so much so that they're begging her to stay with them forever. What is the secret behind this mysterious other world and how does it connect to the many secrets in the Mason family? It'll take a spellbinding, hair-raising adventure, involving not just Colin and Loretta but their mother and the rest of the family, to work that out. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1681373785ISBN 13: 9781681373782
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Paperback. Condition: new. Gripe, Harald (illustrator). Paperback. By the Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Children's LiteratureAlbert the glassblower and Sofia are the loving parents of little Klas and Klara. Albert makes the most beautiful glass bowls and vases (unfortunately they are so impractical that no one will buy them), while Sofia supports the family by working in the fields. Every year Albert goes to the fair to try to sell his wares, and sometimes Sofia and the children go too. At the fair the family meets Flutter Mildweather, a weaver of magical rugs that foretell the future, and Klas and Klara come the attention of the splendid Lord and Lady of All Wishes Town, who have everything they want except for one: children. Full of curious and vivid characterslike the one-eyed raven Wise Wit, who can only see the bright side of life, and the monstrous governess Nana, whose piercing song can shatter glassThe Glassblowers Children also ponders such serious matters as what it means to find meaningful work and the difference between what you want and what you need. In The Glassblowers Children Maria Gripe has drawn on fairy tales and Norse myths to tell a thrilling story with a very modern sensibility. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1681370069ISBN 13: 9781681370064
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Paperback. Condition: new. Eichenberg, Fritz (illustrator). Paperback. She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest stepfinally, she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door. She went to look at the shellbut looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it. So ten-year-old Maria, the orphaned mistress of Malplaquet, discovers the secret of her deteriorating estate: On a deserted island at its far corner, in the temple long ago nicknamed Mistress Mashams Repose, lives an entire community of peoplethe People, as they call themselvesall only inches tall. With the help of her only friendthe absurdly erudite ProfessorMaria soon learns that this settlement is no less than the kingdom of Lilliput (first seen in Gullivers Travels) in exile. Safely hidden for centuries, the Lilliputians are at first endangered by Marias well-meaning but clumsy attempts to make their lives easier, but their situation grows truly ominous when they are discovered by Marias greedy guardians, who look at the People and see only a bundle of money. Ten-year-old Maria, an orphaned heiress living with her unpleasant guardians on a crumbling English estate called Malplaquet, finds her life changing in unimagined ways when she explores an overgrown island on the estate's lake and discovers the descendants of Gulliver's Lilliputians. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, United States, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1590172825ISBN 13: 9781590172827
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2016
ISBN 10: 1590179188ISBN 13: 9781590179185
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal worlda miming cat, a malevolent boardisplays a mind of its own. The four houses have a dozen residentsand then there is Gagou, a mute drifter. Janet, the eldest of the men, is bedridden; he feels snakes writhing in his fingers and speaks in tongues. Even so, all is well until the village fountain suddenly stops running. From this point on, humans and the natural world are locked in a life-and-death struggle. All the elementsfire, water, earth, and aircome into play. From an early age, Jean Giono roamed the hills of his native Provence. He absorbed oral traditions and, at the same time, devoured the Greek and Roman classics. Hill, his first novel and the first winner of the Prix Brentano, comes fully back to life in Paul Epriles poetic translation. First published in French by Bernard Grasset as Colline in 1929. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2017
ISBN 10: 1681370603ISBN 13: 9781681370606
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figuresIn 1937 Leonora Carrington-later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild-was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence.In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became "the mirror of the earth"-of all worlds in a hostile universe-and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach "of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings," she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation.This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor's sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal-in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined-with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home. Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. This book describes the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover artist Max Ernst was sent to a concentration camp, Carrington was "led across the border of Knowledge" and imprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2015
ISBN 10: 1590178947ISBN 13: 9781590178942
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. An NYRB Classics Original from one of the most important and revered philosophers of the 19th century, Anti-Education collects five brilliant and provocative lectures that Nietzsche delivered to the public in Basel in 1872. These lectures, in a clear and precise translation by Damion Searls, question accepted ideas about education and redefine what it means to truly learn.AN NYRB Classics OriginalIn 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers-the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece-this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . .What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872.Anti-Educationpresents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world. Composed in emulation (and to some degree as a satire) of a Platonic dialogue, this book presents a stimulating, provocative, and thoroughly timely reckoning with one of the great problems of the day. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2018
ISBN 10: 1681371316ISBN 13: 9781681371313
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didnt quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, shes recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comynss other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comynss novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimms macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bellas hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2023
ISBN 10: 1681377500ISBN 13: 9781681377506
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A beautiful, wise tale about imagination, chronic illness, and friendship for young readers by an Italy's foremost children's book author.I dont think I have read anything like this before a tale of life, death, love and beauty. . . . I hope this unforgettable story finds all the readers it deserves. Philip PullmanLong, long ago, a boy lies confined by sickness to his windowless bedchambers. He can never experience the outside world, never breathe fresh air or feel the warmth of the sun on his skin, so his doting father summons a painter to embellish his rooms with beautiful murals. The artist sets to work, and soon there is a fabulous world on the walls, a colorful, shifting landscape peopled by shepherds and lovers, criss-crossed by armies and pirate ships. As the boys health fades, the artist paints on, turning the simple commission into a generous labor of love. Can he show this child the richness and beauty of the worldand of life itselfwith nothing but paints and brushes? Glowrushes is a heartbreakingly beautiful classic of Italian childrens literature. Artist Sakumat and eleven-year-old chronically ill Madurer forge a beautiful friendship as the painter brings landscapes to life in the boy's windowless rooms. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2019
ISBN 10: 1681373750ISBN 13: 9781681373751
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a story about the last gnomes in Britain. They are honest-to-goodness gnomes, none of your baby, fairy-book tinsel stuff, and they live by hunting and fishing, like the animals and birds, which is only proper and right. From the authors introduction On the banks of the Folly Brook, inside an old oak tree, live the last three gnomes in Britain: Sneezewort, Baldmoney, and Dodder. Before their fourth brother, Cloudberry, disappeared upstream seeking adventure, they lived happily and peacefully among their woodland friends. But now spring has come and the brothers start thinking about spending the summer traveling upstream to find Cloudberry. Before long theyve built a boat and set off for unknown lands, where they find themselves involved in all kinds of adventures with new friends (wood mice, water voles, badgers) as well as with enemies (two-legged giants). A classic of British literature, B.B.s The Little Grey Men has much in common with Kenneth Grahames The Wind in the Willows, though as B.B. acknowledges in his introduction, the talking gnomes are only part of the story. The true plot, which B.B., an unparalleled naturalist, brings thrillingly to life is the magic of the woods and streams, the beauty of unspoiled nature and of the great diversity of living things. In Warwickshire, England, three gnomes set out on a dangerous journey to find their long-lost brother, who left years ago to seek the source of the Folly, the brook on whose banks they make their home. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2020
ISBN 10: 1681375044ISBN 13: 9781681375045
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Paperback. Condition: new. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Paperback. 27 illustrated short stories full of heart and whimsy, by the Carnegie Medalwinning authora perfect read-aloud collection for middle grade readers who love folklore and fairy tales. In The Little Bookroom, Eleanor Farjeon mischievously tilts our workaday world to reveal its wonders and follies. Her selection of her favorite stories describes powerfuland sometimes exceedingly sillymonarchs, and commoners who are every bit their match; musicians and dancers who live for aft rather than earthly reward; and a goldfish who wishes to marry the Moon, surpass the Sun, and possess the World.Featuring an afterword by Rumer Godden A collection of twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories, chosen especially by her for this volume's first publishing in 1955. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1681376695ISBN 13: 9781681376691
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Paperback. Condition: new. Front, Charles (illustrator). Paperback. Now in paperback, the third and final entry in Barbara Sleigh's enchanting Carbonel trilogy.There are many kinds of magic. . . And once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic, says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of Carbonel and Calidor. Sure enough, Carbonels human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the form of a ring set with a fiery red stone that grants wishes to whoever wears it. And its a lucky thing, too, because Carbonel needs Rosemary and Johns help. It seems that his son Calidor has rejected his princely status for the love of a streetwise cat named Wellingtonia (also known as Dumpsie). Even worse, Calidor has apprenticed himself to the witch-in-training Mrs. Dibdin. With all this going on, its just a matter of time before Carbonels old nemesis Grisanaaccompanied by her slyboots daughter Melissahatches a plan to take control of Carbonels kingdom once and for all.This third and final volume of the Carbonel series is as full of enchantment and adventure as its predecessors, Carbonel and The Kingdom of Carbonel. Read individually, or in sequence, Barbara Sleighs fantastic and fantastical trilogy casts an unforgettable spell. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by The New York Review of Books, Inc, New York, 2022
ISBN 10: 1681376547ISBN 13: 9781681376547
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When climate change and human interference forces four gnomes to leave their beloved home, they embark on a long, thrilling adventure that takes them over land and sea in this thrilling sequel to the first Little Grey Men book. Sneezewort, Baldmoney, Dodder, and Cloudberry are the last gnomes in Britain. Life along the Folly Brook, where the gnomes live companionably with the birds and beasts, is wild and wet, just the way they like it. But one spring day, waking up from a long winter sleep, the gnomes are confronted by an inescapable fact: Their brook is drying up and will soon be uninhabitable.A sequel to B.B.s award-winning The Little Grey Men, this novel is about the gnomes perilous and daring search for a new home. Warwickshire and the rest of their beloved country have been despoiled by men, and the gnomes must find another place as wild and wet as their home once was.Part fantasy, part ecological parable, The Little Grey Men Go Down the Bright Stream was first published in 1948 and remains as exciting, poignant, and far-seeing as ever. "This is a New York Review Book published by the New York Review of Books."--Colophon Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.