New Directions Classics |
Begun in 1981 under the title, Revived Modern Classics, New Directions Classics carries on the ground-breaking work of the New Directions Press, reissuing a diverse range of classic novels, short story collections, and works of nonfiction.
• 62: A Model Kit, Julio Cortazar
• The Accompanist, Nina Berberova
• All Souls, Javier Marias
• Aller Retour New York, Henry Miller
• Anna Édes, Dezsõ Kosztolányi
• At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren
• An Autobiographical Novel, Kenneth Rexroth
• The Bachelors, Muriel Spark
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark
• A Barbarian in Asia, Henri Michaux
• The Blue Flowers, Raymond Queneau
• Bread in the Wilderness: Discussion of the Psalms, Thomas Merton
• Classics Revisited, Kenneth Rexroth
• The Comforters, Muriel Spark
• Conversations in Sicily, Elio Vittorini
• Cortes and Montezuma, Maurice Collis
• Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortazar
• Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Guy Davenport
• The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, William Saroyan
• Death of a Man, Kay Boyle
• Dreamers, Knut Hamsun
• Efraim’s Book, Alfred Andersch
• Elephant’s Nest in a Rhubarb Tree & Other Stories, H.E. Bates
• Except the Lord, Joyce Cary
• A Far Cry from Kensington, Muriel Spark
• Fifty Stories, Kay Boyle
• Foreign Mud, Maurice Collis
• Futility, William Gerhardie
• The German Lesson, Siegfried Lenz
• The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark
• A House of Children, Joyce Cary
• The Illustrious House of Ramires, Eça de Queiros
• The Land of the Great Image, Maurice Collis
• Laughter in the Dark, Vladimir Nabokov
• Levin’s Mill, Johannes Bobrowski
• The Life Before Us (“Madame Rosa”), Emile Ajar (pseudonym of Romain Gary)
• Life Being the Best & Other Stories, Kay Boyle
• The Life of Monsier de Moliere, Mikhail Bulgakov
• Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
• The Man with the Heart in the Highlands, William Saroyan
• Memento Mori, Muriel Spark
• The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, Kenneth Patchen
• Mister Johnson, Joyce Cary
• A Month by the Lake & Other Stories, H.E. Bates
• More Classics Revisited, Kenneth Rexroth
• Not Honour More, Joyce Cary
• Nothing to Pay, Caradoc Evans
• Novel on Yellow Paper, Stevie Smith
• On the Edge of Reason, Miroslav Krleza
• One Moonlit Night, Caradog Prichard
• Pack My Bag, Henry Green
• A Party for the Girls, H.E. Bates
• Poor White, Sherwood Anderson
• The Princess of Cleves, Madame de Lafayette
• Prisoner of Grace, Joyce Cary
• Promise at Dawn: A Memoir, Romain Gary
• The Public Image, Muriel Spark
• The Rain Came Last & Other Stories, Niccolo Tucci
• Robinson, Muriel Spark
• The Sacred Fount, Henry James
• The Samurai, Shusako Endo
• The Sea and the Poison, Shusako Endo
• She Was a Queen, Maurice Collis
• The Shooting Gallery, Yuko Tsushima
• Stained Glass Elegies, Shusako Endo
• The Tattered Cloak, Nina Berberova
• Three Italian Chronicles (The Cenci, The Abbess of Castro, Vanina,
• Three More Novels (Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice), Ronald Firbank
• Vanini), Stendhal
• The Yellow Sofa, Eça de Queiros
i like new directions. this is a nice list. i’d like to know how you compiled it.
?thanks! matt.