NYRB Classics

1883 novel by Carlo Collodi

1897 serialized novel by H. G. Wells

1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol

1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev

ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus

first part of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"

1836 novel by Aleksandr Pushkin

1554 Spanish novella

Austrian novella by Stefan Zweig

1860 novel by Multatuli, which played a key role in modifying Dutch colonial policy

1923 novel by Felix Salten

1940 novel by Dino Buzzati

novel by Alfred Döblin

Purgatorio (; Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno and preceding the Paradiso; it was written in the early 14th century. It is an allegorical telling of the climb of Dante up the Mount of Purgatory, guided by the Roman poet Virgil—except for the last four cantos, at which point Beatrice takes over as Dante's guide. Allegorically, Purgatorio represents the penitent Christian life. In describing the climb Dante discusses the nature of sin, examples of vice and virtue, as well as moral issues in politics and in the Church. The poem posits the

novel by Nikolai Leskov

17th century encyclopedia of physical and psychological data, anecdote and quotation

novel by Honoré de Balzac

novel by Stefan Zweig

Viking adventure novel by Frans G. Bengtsson (1944)

1966 novel by Tayeb Salih

novel by Bolesław Prus

novel by Ivan Turgenev

1955 novel by John Wyndham

novel by Ivan Turgenev

1965 novel by John Williams

novel by Stefan Zweig

novel by Vasily Grossman

1888 novella by German writer Theodor Storm

novel by Cesare Pavese

novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares

1904 work by Luigi Pirandello

book by Honoré de Balzac

play written by Kong Shangren

1985 essay by Gabriel García Márquez

novel by Stefan Zweig

novel by Kingsley Amis

1954 novel by Alberto Moravia

1931 novel written by Erich Kästner

1955 novel by Yasar Kemal

essay by Thomas Mann

short story collection by Varlam Shalamov

Chevengur () is a socio-philosophical novel by Andrei Platonov, written in 1928. It is his longest work and often regarded by scholars as the most significant of his works. Although its fragments were published in the Soviet magazine Krasnaya Nov, the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988. Full text of the novel was published by Ardis in 1972.

novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842

novel by Adalbert Stifter

novel by Anna Seghers

Colline is a 1929 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It has also been published as Hill of Destiny. It tells the story of a small hamlet in Provence where the superstitious residents struggle against nature, as their settlement is struck by several misfortunes. Colline was Giono's debut novel. It is the first installment in the author's Pan trilogy; it was followed by the standalone novels Lovers are Never Losers and Second Harvest.

1931 novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

novel by John Edward Williams

Moravagine is a 1926 novel by Blaise Cendrars, originally published by Grasset. It is a complex opus with a central figure, the eponymous Moravagine, who emerges as a doppelganger of the author whom the author is ridding himself of through the act of writing. It took Cendrars a decade to write the book (Cendrars makes reference to it as early as 1917), and he never stopped working on it. In 1956, the author partially rewrote the text and added a postface, as well as a section titled "Pro domo: How I wrote Moravagine". In his final revision, Cendrars says the book is definitely incomplete, as i

1974 novel by Christopher Priest

novel by Stendhal

1974 novel by Leonora Carrington

Chocky is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham. It was first published as a novelette in the March 1963 issue of Amazing Stories and later developed into a novel in 1968, published by Michael Joseph. The BBC produced a radio adaption by John Tydeman in 1967. In 1984 a children's television drama based on the novel was shown on ITV in the United Kingdom.

1959 Australian novel

1880 novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

1972 novel by John Edward Williams

novel by Andrei Platonov

novel by James Hogg

non-fiction work by Milton Rokeach

1972 novel by Tove Jansson