New York Review Classics on my to-be-read list

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The Towers of Trebizond

by Rose Macaulay

Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
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We Think the World of You

by Joe Randolph Ackerley

"Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, self-righteous, angry. He is in love with Johnny, a young, married, working-class man with a …
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Chess Story

by Stefan Zweig

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his …
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Lolly Willowes

by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The story of a middle-aged spinster who moves to a country village to escape her controlling relatives and takes up the practice of witchcraft.
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A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of …
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Classic crimes

 

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The horse's mouth

 

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The Colour Out of Space

by Douglas Thin

Lovecraft's vision of the perfect horror story encompassed a cosmic terror in which all of creation is at stake. This collection includes the title story …
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Hons and Rebels

by Jessica Mitford

Jessica Mitford, the great muckraking journalist, was part of a legendary English aristocratic family. Her sisters included Nancy, doyenne of the 1920s London smart set …