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  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

    by Lydia Davis ...
    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of the Story

    A Novel

    by Lydia Davis ...
    From an award-winning author, a literary novel about a woman's romantic obsession "is not only beautiful, but an extraordinary and very modern achievement" ( The New York Observer ).Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair—such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to organize her memories ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translationMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Madame Bovary

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker**Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Unsere Fremden

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Jan Wilm ...
    Endlich! "Unsere Fremden" ist die neueste, lang ersehnte Short-Story-Sammlung der US-Kultautorin. Die Einzigartigkeit und Genialität von Lydia Davis’ Literatur wird einmal mehr aufs Eindrücklichste untermauert. Sie ist eine Virtuosin darin, die scheinbar beiläufigen, unbedeutenden Überraschungen des täglichen Lebens aufzuspüren und sie in kurze literarische Meisterwerke zu gießen. Pointiert, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Weeds

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Why I Write
    An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis“Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of context by reframing reading in the most particular and human terms.†?—David L. Ulin, The AtlanticWhen asked ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Cows

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Quarternote Chapbook Series
    Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Break It Down

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    "These stories . . . offer a peephole into a distinct fictional world . . . they attest to the author's gift as an observer and archivist of emotion." — The New York TimesThe thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise.Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Es ist, wie's ist

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Klaus Hoffer ...
    Bereits in ihrem ersten Buch beweist Lydia Davis ihre große Meisterschaft in der kleinen Form. Sie betrachtet auf ihre trocken-humorige und so intelligente Art das, was zwischen uns und in uns selbst vorgehen kann. Auch noch so kleine Feinheiten und Details des Lebens entdeckt Davis und schenkt ihnen besondere Bedeutung. Eine Vielzahl an unterschiedlichsten Lebenssituationen und menschlichen ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can't and Won't

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    This story collection "is evidence of a writer who is in total control of her own peculiar original voice; its pleasures are unexpected and manifold" (Kate Christensen, Elle).Lydia Davis's stories may be literal one-liners, like the pithy "Bloomington." Or they may be surprising investigations into mundane disruptions, such as "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates." The stories may ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Varieties of Disturbance

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    A National Book Award finalist, this collection of "whimsical, seemingly eventless [short stories] . . . gain momentum as tiny epics of paranoia and ennui" ( The New Yorker )."Davis is a magician of self-consciousness. Few writers now working make the words on the page matter more." ―Jonathan Franzen"Davis is the kind of writer about whom you say: 'Oh, at last!'" ―Grace Paley<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Freeman's: Arrival

    The Best New Writing on Arrival

    by Barry Lopez, Honor Moore, Etgar Keret, Kamila Shamsie, Louise Erdrich, Colum McCann, David Mitchell, Daniel Galera, Haruki Murakami, Aleksandar Hemon, Ghassan Zaqtan, Anne Carson, Tahmima Anam, Helen Simpson, Ishion Hutchinson, Garnette Cadogan, Laura van den Berg, Ben Huff, Fatin Abbas, Michael Salu, Dave Eggers, Lydia Davis ...
    A new literary journal arrives on the scene with unpublished works from such superstars as Dave Eggers, Louise Erdrich, Haruki Murakami, and others.In this inaugural edition of Freeman's, a new biannual of unpublished writing, former Granta editor and NBCC president John Freeman brings together the best new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about that electrifying moment when we arrive.Strange ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus