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  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

    by Lydia Davis ...
    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Madame Bovary

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **The award-winning, nationally bestselling translation, by Lydia Davis, of one of the world’s most celebrated novels“The best English version by far, because its deadpan reminds us that the book is both a great realist novel and a satire of realism.” —Merve Emre, The New Yorker**Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she spends lavishly on clothes and on her home ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translationMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Into the Weeds

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Why I Write
    An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis“Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of context by reframing reading in the most particular and human terms.†?—David L. Ulin, The AtlanticWhen asked ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Almost No Memory

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Lydia Davis's collection Almost No Memory is richly inventive array of playful philosophical investigations, involuted domestic disputes, and fables of the dark fantastic. With wittily restrained intensity, she again portrays the contemplative self caught in the paradoxical world. In 'Pastor Elaine's Newsletter,' a harried mother studies a Bible passage; in 'Foucault and Pencil,' a troubled ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unsere Fremden

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Jan Wilm ...
    Endlich! "Unsere Fremden" ist die neueste, lang ersehnte Short-Story-Sammlung der US-Kultautorin. Die Einzigartigkeit und Genialität von Lydia Davis’ Literatur wird einmal mehr aufs Eindrücklichste untermauert. Sie ist eine Virtuosin darin, die scheinbar beiläufigen, unbedeutenden Überraschungen des täglichen Lebens aufzuspüren und sie in kurze literarische Meisterwerke zu gießen. Pointiert, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essays Two

    by Lydia Davis ...
    A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia DavisIn Essays One, Lydia Davis, who has been called "a magician of self-consciousness" by Jonathan Franzen and "the best prose stylist in America" by Rick Moody, gathered a generous selection of her essays about best writing practices, ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cows

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Quarternote Chapbook Series
    Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Break It Down

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    "These stories . . . offer a peephole into a distinct fictional world . . . they attest to the author's gift as an observer and archivist of emotion." — The New York TimesThe thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise.Although the certainty of her prose suggests a world of almost ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The End of the Story

    A Novel

    by Lydia Davis ...
    From an award-winning author, a literary novel about a woman's romantic obsession "is not only beautiful, but an extraordinary and very modern achievement" ( The New York Observer ).Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair—such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to organize her memories ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Es ist, wie's ist

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Klaus Hoffer ...
    Bereits in ihrem ersten Buch beweist Lydia Davis ihre große Meisterschaft in der kleinen Form. Sie betrachtet auf ihre trocken-humorige und so intelligente Art das, was zwischen uns und in uns selbst vorgehen kann. Auch noch so kleine Feinheiten und Details des Lebens entdeckt Davis und schenkt ihnen besondere Bedeutung. Eine Vielzahl an unterschiedlichsten Lebenssituationen und menschlichen ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Varieties of Disturbance

    Stories

    by Lydia Davis ...
    A National Book Award finalist, this collection of "whimsical, seemingly eventless [short stories] . . . gain momentum as tiny epics of paranoia and ennui" ( The New Yorker )."Davis is a magician of self-consciousness. Few writers now working make the words on the page matter more." ―Jonathan Franzen"Davis is the kind of writer about whom you say: 'Oh, at last!'" ―Grace Paley<... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD