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  • The Arabian Nights

    Muhsin Mahdi, Husain Haddawy

    New Deluxe Edition

    Paperback

    Now as sumptuously packaged as they are critically acclaimed—a new deluxe trade paperback edition of the beloved stories.

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    Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

    Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian

    Paperback

    A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.

  • Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

    Aristophanes, Aaron Poochigian

    Hardback

    A “zany [and] inventive” (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiquity’s greatest comedies.

  • Armand V

    Dag Solstad, Steven T. Murray

    Paperback

    New Directions proudly introduces two novels in English by the Norwegian master, who is “without question, Norway’s bravest, most intelligent novelist” (Per Petterson) 

  • As We Are Now: A Novel

    May Sarton

    Paperback

    "I am not mad, only old. . . . I am in a concentration camp for the old."