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Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)

Javier Marías
Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219648

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Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls) by Javier Marías Pdf

A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?

Morphine (New Directions Pearls)

Mikhail Bulgakov
Morphine New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Mikhail Bulgakov
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811221689

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Morphine (New Directions Pearls) by Mikhail Bulgakov Pdf

From the author of The Master and Margarita comes this short and tragic masterpiece about drug addiction Young 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 go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov’s uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction — his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls)

Joseph Roth
The Leviathan New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Joseph Roth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219259

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The Leviathan (New Directions Pearls) by Joseph Roth Pdf

"In the small town of Progrody, Nissen Piczenik makes his living as a respected coral merchant. Despite his knowledge of coral, Nissen has never seen the sea. When a visiting sailor offers to take Nissen to Odessa, he eagerly accepts. But upon his return to Progrody, Nissen finds that a new coral merchant has moved into a neighboring town and is gaining popularity. As his customers dwindle, life takes an evil twist for Nissen Progrody. And the final decider of his fate may be the devil himself."--P. [4] of cover.

On Booze (New Directions Pearls)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Booze New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811219334

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On Booze (New Directions Pearls) by F. Scott Fitzgerald Pdf

A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this the most intoxicating New Directions Pearl yet! “First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled collection taken from The Crack-Up, and other works never before published by New Directions. On Booze portrays “The Jazz Age” as Fitzgerald experienced it: roaring, rambunctious, and lush — with quite a hangover.

Urn Burial (New Directions Pearls)

Thomas Browne
Urn Burial New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Thomas Browne
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811221542

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Urn Burial (New Directions Pearls) by Thomas Browne Pdf

Urn Burial, one of the most influential essays in Western literature, is now available as a New Directions Pearl. Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne’s associative mind wanders to elephant graveyards, to pre-Christian cremation ceremonies, and finally to the idea of Christian burial. Browne then explores, with a more melancholic meditation, man’s struggles with mortality and the uncertainty of his fate and fame in the living world. This edition includes a magisterial discourse on Sir Thomas Browne taken from the first chapter of W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn.

The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls)

César Aira
The Literary Conference New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : César Aira
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811218788

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The Literary Conference (New Directions Pearls) by César Aira Pdf

New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world. César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world domination. On a visit to the beach he intuitively solves an ancient riddle, finds a pirate’s treasure, and becomes a very wealthy man. Even so, César’s bid for world domination comes first and so he attends a literary conference to be near the man whose clone he hopes will lead an army to victory: the world-renowned Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes. A comic science fiction fantasy of the first order, The Literary Conference is the perfect vehicle for César Aira’s take over of literature in the 21st century.

Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls)

Keith Ridgway
Never Love a Gambler New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Keith Ridgway
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222945

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Never Love a Gambler (New Directions Pearls) by Keith Ridgway Pdf

Collects three short stories using innovative and vivid dialogue.

Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls)

Enrique Vila-Matas
Because She Never Asked New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225700

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Because She Never Asked (New Directions Pearls) by Enrique Vila-Matas Pdf

A novella—half joke and half nightmare— by "Spain's most significant contemporary literary figure" (The New Yorker) Because She Never Asked is a story reminiscent of that reached by the travelers in Patricia Highsmith's Stranger on a Train. The author first writes a piece for the artist Sophie Calle to live out: a young, aspiring, French artist travels to Lisbon and the Azores in pursuit of an older artist whose work she’s in love with. The second part of the story tells what happens between the author and Calle. She eludes, him; he becomes blocked, and suffers physical collapse. “Something strange happened along the way,” Vila-Matas wrote. “Normally, writers try to pass a work of fiction off as being real. But in Because She Never Asked, the opposite occurred: in order to give meaning to the story of my life, I found that I needed to present it as fiction.”

The Night Before Christmas (New Directions Pearls)

Nikolai Gogol
The Night Before Christmas New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811219693

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The Night Before Christmas (New Directions Pearls) by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

Nikolai Gogol's hilarious and macabre tale of a Christmas Eve with a devil and a romantic twist. It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief upon the village of Dikanka by unleashing a snowstorm. But the one he’d really like to torment is the town blacksmith, Vakula, who creates paintings of the devil being vanquished. Vakula is in love with Oksana, but she will have nothing to do with him. Vakula, however, is determined to win her over, even if it means battling the devil. Taken from Nikolai Gogol’s first successful work, the story collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, The Night Before Christmas is available here for the first time as a stand-alone novella and is a perfect introduction to the great Russian satirist.

The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls)

Yoko Tawada
The Bridegroom Was a Dog New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220378

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The Bridegroom Was a Dog (New Directions Pearls) by Yoko Tawada Pdf

A schoolteacher tells her class a fable about a princess who promises her hand in marriage to a dog that has licked her bottom clean. Strangely, a doglike suitor then appears to court the teacher. Much to the chagrin of her friends, an odd romance ensues - simmering with secrets, chivalry, and sex.

Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls)

Jorge Luis Borges
Everything and Nothing New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811231282

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Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls) by Jorge Luis Borges Pdf

A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays. Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work—written in the 1930s and ‘40s—that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”

Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)

Tennessee Williams
Tales of Desire New Directions Pearls Book PDF

Author : Tennessee Williams
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220835

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Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls) by Tennessee Williams Pdf

"I yearned for a bad influence and boy, was Tennessee one in the best sense of the word: joyous, alarming, sexually confusing and dangerously funny."—John Waters “I cannot write any sort of story,” said Tennessee [to Gore Vidal] “unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.” These transgressive Tales of Desire, including “One Arm,” “Desire and the Black Masseur,” “Hard Candy,” and “The Killer Chicken and the Closet Queen,” show the iconic playwright at his outrageous best.

Your Face Tomorrow

Javier Marías
Your Face Tomorrow Book PDF

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811217272

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Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marías Pdf

A daring masterwork by Javier Marias: "Spain's most subtle and gifted writer." (The Boston Globe)

The Man of Feeling

Javier Marías
The Man of Feeling Book PDF

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804172608

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The Man of Feeling by Javier Marías Pdf

A story of love and memory. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance will become entangled with these three people, and the singer will find himself fatefully consumed by Natalia's beauty. The Man of Feeling is the haunting story of the birth and death of a passion, told in retrospect. Intricately interweaving desire and memory, it explores the nature of love, and asks whether we can ever truly recall something that no longer exists.

Written Lives

Javier Marías
Written Lives Book PDF

Author : Javier Marías
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811216896

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Written Lives by Javier Marías Pdf

An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).