NYRB Classics

Begun in 1999, this series from the publishing arm of the New York Review of Books is certainly the biggest and most successful current venture into the revival of neglected books. As J. Peder Zane wrote of the series in the Raleigh News and Observer, “They are reminders that even high achievement is no guarantee of immortality in the crowded realm of literature, where the laws of supply and demand, of time and space, hold greater sway than aesthetic justice.”

Each title features an original introduction, usually written by a prominent author. Unknown Masterpieces collects thirteen such essays, along with a preface by series editor Edwin Frank.

• The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, Alvaro Mutis
• An African in Greenland, Tete-Michel Kpomassie
• Alfred and Guinevere, James Schuyler
• American Humor, Constance Rourke
• The Anatomy of Melancholy, Robert Burton
• Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson
• Apartment in Athens, Glenway Wescott
• As a Man Grows Older, Italo Svevo
• Asleep in the Sun, Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, Nirad C. Chaudhuri
• Black Sun, Geoffrey Wolff
• Blood on the Forge, William Attaway
• The Bog People, P. V. Glob
• A Book of Mediterranean Food, Elizabeth David
• The Book of My Life, Girolamo Cardano
• Boredom, Alberto Moravia
• The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Victor Serge
• Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Dodds Baker
• The Child, Jules Vallès
• Classic Crimes, William Roughead
• The Colour Out of Space, Edited by D. Thin
• Contempt (reissue), Alberto Moravia
• Corrigan, Caroline Blackwood
• Count d’Orgel’s Ball, Raymond Radiguet
• The Day of the Owl, Leonardo Sciascia
• The Diary of a Rapist, Evan S. Connell
• Dirty Snow, Georges Simenon
• Envy, Yuri Olesha
• Equal Danger, Leonardo Sciascia
• Eustace and Hilda, L. P. Hartley
• The Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, Arthur Conan Doyle
• Fancies and Goodnights, John Collier
• The Fierce and Beautiful World, Andrei Platonov
• Flaubert and Madame Bovary, Francis Steegmuller
• The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West
• The Fox in the Attic, Richard Hughes
• The Furies, Janet Hobhouse
• The Gallery, John Horne Burns
• The Glass Bees, Ernst Jünger
• The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley
• The Golovlyov Family, Shchedrin
• Great Granny Webster, Caroline Blackwood
• Hadrian the Seventh, Fr. Rolfe
• A Handbook on Hanging, Charles Duff
• The Haunted Looking Glass, Edited by Edward Gorey
• Herself Surprised, Joyce Cary
• A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
• Hindoo Holiday, J. R. Ackerley
• Hons and Rebels, Jessica Mitford
• The Horse’s Mouth, Joyce Cary
• A House and Its Head, Ivy Compton-Burnett
• In Parenthesis, David Jones
• In the Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm
• Indian Summer, William Dean Howells
• The Inferno (New translation by Ciaran Carson), Dante
• The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Ivory Tower, Henry James
• Jakob von Gunten, Robert Walser
• The Late Mattia Pascal, Luigi Pirandello
• Letters from Russia, Astolphe de Custine
• Letters: Summer 1926, Boris Pasternak
• Letty Fox: Her Luck, Christina Stead
• The Life of Henry Brulard, Stendhal
• The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes
• The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard, Edited and with an introduction by W. H. Auden
• Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings, Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, Iona and Peter Opie
• Madame de Pompadour, Nancy Mitford
• Manservant and Maidservant, Ivy Compton-Burnett
• Mary Olivier: A Life, May Sinclair
• Mawrdew Czgowchwz, James McCourt
• Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte, Lorenzo Da Ponte
• Memoirs of Hecate County, Edmund Wilson
• Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Daniel Paul Schreber
• The Middle of the Journey, Lionel Trilling
• Miserable Miracle, Henri Michaux
• Monsieur Monde Vanishes, Georges Simenon
• Monsieur Proust, Céleste Albaret
• A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr
• The Moon and the Bonfires, Cesare Pavese
• Moravagine, Blaise Cendrars
• The Moro Affair, Leonardo Sciascia
• Morte D’Urban, J. F. Powers
• Mr. Fortune’s Maggot and The Salutation, Sylvia Townsend Warner
• My Century, Aleksander Wat
• My Dog Tulip, J. R. Ackerley
• My Father and Myself, J. R. Ackerley
• The New Life, Dante (translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
• Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn, Harvey Swados
• Nonsense Novels, Stephen Leacock
• On the Yard, Malcolm Braly
• The Other House, Henry James
• The Outcry, Henry James
• Paris Stories, Mavis Gallant
• Paris and Elsewhere, Richard C. Cobb
• Part of Our Time, Murray Kempton
• Peasants and Other Stories, Anton Chekhov
• Peking Story, David Kidd
• The Peregrine, J. A. Baker
• The Pilgrim Hawk, Glenway Wescott
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, Alexander Berkman
• Prisoner of Love, Jean Genet
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg
• The Pure and the Impure, Colette
• The Quest for Corvo, A. J. A. Symons
• The Radiance of the King, Camara Laye
• Randall Jarrell’s Book of Stories, Edited by Randall Jarrell
• Records of Shelley, Byron, and the Author, Edward John Trelawny
• Renoir, My Father, Jean Renoir
• René Leys, Victor Segalen
• Riders in the Chariot, Patrick White
• The Root and the Flower, L. H. Myers
• Seduction and Betrayal, Elizabeth Hardwick
• Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, Osip Mandelstam
• Selected Stories of Robert Walser, Robert Walser
• The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese, Cesare Pavese
• Seven Men, Max Beerbohm
• Shelley: The Pursuit, Richard Holmes
• The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell
• The Singapore Grip, J. G. Farrell
• Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick
• A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke
• The Stories of J.F. Powers, J. F. Powers
• The Stuffed Owl, Edited by Charles Lee
• Summer Cooking, Elizabeth David
• The Ten Thousand Things, Maria Dermout
• The Tenants of Moonbloom, Edward Lewis Wallant
• Three Bedrooms in Manhattan, Georges Simenon
• To Be a Pilgrim, Joyce Cary
• To Each His Own, Leonardo Sciascia
• To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson
• The Towers of Trebizond, Rose Macaulay
• Troubles, J. G. Farrell
• Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa, Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Unknown Masterpiece, Honore de Balzac
• The Unpossessed, Tess Slesinger
• Varieties of Exile, Mavis Gallant
• The Vet’s Daughter, Barbara Comyns
• Virgin Soil, Ivan Turgenev
• W.H. Auden’s Book of Light Verse, W. H. Auden
• Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem
• War and the Iliad, Rachel Bespaloff and Simone Weil
• Warlock, Oakley Hall
• The Waste Books, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• A Way of Life Like Any Other, Darcy O’Brien
• We Always Treat Women Too Well, Raymond Queneau
• We Think the World of You, J. R. Ackerley
• Wheat That Springeth Green, J. F. Powers
• The Wine-Dark Sea, Leonardo Sciascia
• The Winners, Julio Cortazar
• Witch Grass, Raymond Queneau
• The Wooden Shepherdess, Richard Hughes
• The World I Live In, Helen Keller
• The World of Odysseus, M. I. Finley
• The Year of the French, Thomas Flanagan