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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

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1

    The Way by Swann's

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $14.39 CAD

  • 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

    $14.99 CAD

  • 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

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $21.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • 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

    $28.99 CAD 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

    $9.99 CAD

  • Night Train

    by A. L. Snijders ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Brevity is the soul of beauty in these tiny masterworks of short short fictionGorgeously translated by Lydia Davis, the miniature stories of A. L. Snijders might concern a lost shoe, a visit with a bat, fears of travel, a dream of a man who has lost a glass eye: uniting them is their concision and their vivacity. Lydia Davis in her introduction delves into her fascination with the pleasures and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Life of Henry Brulard

    by Stendhal, Lydia Davis ...
    The Life of Henry Brulard is the autobiography of one of France's greatest writers, Stendhal, author of The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma. Here, writing at white heat and with such ferocious honesty and indignation that his book was to remain unpublishable for more than a century after its composition, Stendhal revisits his unhappy childhood in a stuffy provincial town and bares ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.19 CAD