Caroline Blackwood – Corrigan

Author: Caroline Blackwood Title: Corrigan ISBN: Corrigan – Language: English – Pages: 319 Publisher: NYRB Classics Publication Date: January 1, 1984 Genres: [‘Fiction’, ‘British Literature’, ‘Classics’, ’20th Century’, ‘Literary Fiction’, ‘Contemporary’, ‘Novels’] Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband’s death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has […]

Janet Malcolm – In the Freud Archives

Author: Janet Malcolm Title: In the Freud Archives ISBN: In the Freud Archives – Language: English – Pages: 162 Publisher: NYRB Classics Publication Date: January 1, 1983 Genres: [‘Psychology’, ‘Nonfiction’, ‘Psychoanalysis’, ‘History’, ‘Biography’, ‘Journalism’, ’20th Century’] In the Freud Archives tells the story of an unlikely encounter among three men: K. R. Eissler, the venerable doyen of […]

Stefan Zweig – The Post-Office Girl

Author: Stefan Zweig Title: The Post-Office Girl ISBN: The Post-Office Girl – Language: English – Pages: 257 Publisher: NYRB Classics Publication Date: January 1, 1982 Genres: [‘Fiction’, ‘Classics’, ‘Historical Fiction’, ‘German Literature’, ‘Novels’, ‘Literary Fiction’, ’20th Century’] The post-office girl is Christine, who looks after her ailing mother and toils in a provincial Austrian post office in […]

Tove Jansson – The True Deceiver

Author: Tove Jansson Title: The True Deceiver ISBN: The True Deceiver – Language: English – Pages: 181 Publisher: NYRB Classics Publication Date: January 1, 1982 Genres: [‘Fiction’, ‘Scandinavian Literature’, ‘Finnish Literature’, ‘Literary Fiction’, ‘Classics’, ‘Novels’, ‘Swedish Literature’] A New York Review Books Original The lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of […]