{"title":"New Directions Paperbook","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"maias-book-jose-maria-de-eca-de-queiros-9780811216494","title":"The Maias","description":"Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate--with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret...\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of José Saramago's Blindness), New Directions is proud to bring Eça de Queirós' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49777441898769,"sku":"CIN0811216497G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50032490021137,"sku":"CIN0811216497VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52703630491921,"sku":"GOR002754110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52941330153745,"sku":"GOR014662233","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811216497.jpg?v=1750978949"},{"product_id":"selected-prose-1909-1956-book-ezra-pound-9780811205740","title":"Selected Prose 1909-1956","description":"In making this selection, writes William Cookson in his introduction to this paperback edition of early and out-of-print writings, my aim has been to show the unity of Ezra Pound's concern. The sixty-six pieces in Pound's Selected Prose 1909-1965 are arranged thematically, and while they are organized chronologically within several groupings, there are natural cross-currents of thoughts among them. Particular emphasis, however, is given to the article concerned with Civilization, Money and History. This section contains such essential texts as the ABC of Economics and What is Money For? as well as two essays - Gold and Work and A Visiting Car - translated from Pound's Italian and never before published in English in their entirety. Much space is devoted, too, to Pound's evaluation of his native America, its history, culture, economy, and his 1913 essay, Patria Mia, is reprinted.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49852104278289,"sku":"CIN0811205746G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007833112849,"sku":"NIN9780811205740","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53247809847569,"sku":"CIN0811205746VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811205746.jpg?v=1751201954"},{"product_id":"interviews-with-william-carlos-williams-book-william-carlos-williams-9780811206211","title":"Interviews with William Carlos Williams","description":"\"Not after the establishment, but speaking straight ahead.\" This is how William Carlos Williams referred to his own forthrightness as well as his practice of using only American speech patterns in his poems. In Interviews with William Carlos Williams, Linda Wagner of the English Department, Michigan State University, has assembled Dr. Williams's most important public statements. The first section, entitled simply \"Interviews,\" reproduces in toto three in-depth conversations, revealing Dr. Williams's humor, vitality, and American-ness, as he discusses his theories of poetic meter and diction, his opinions of such contemporaries as Pound and Eliot, and his view of his own role in shaping the course of modern American poetry. The second section, \"Dialogues,\" is arranged alphabetically by subject heading. Here are recorded the poet's thoughts on topics from \"Art\" to \"Women.\" The third and final part of Interviews with William Carlos Williams, \"Memoirs and Miscellany,\" includes the touching account of a visit to the Williamses by artist Gael Turnbull in 1958. Also reprinted are two of Dr. Williams's best expositions of his own poetic techniques, \"The American Idiot\" and \"How to Write\"--essays which appeared in early New Directions anthologies but have been generally unavailable since. This valuable collection of comments \"for the record\" is annotated and includes an index.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49931595153681,"sku":"CIN0811206211A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008033685777,"sku":"NIN9780811206211","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811206211.jpg?v=1751139178"},{"product_id":"loving-sabotage-book-amelie-nothomb-9780811217828","title":"Loving Sabotage","description":"So announces the narrator of Loving Sabotage, Amelie Nothomb's critically acclaimed novel about a young girl who seems already stripped of illusions. The daughter of diplomats posted in Peking for three years in the mid-seventies, our unnamed narrator charges about her tightly enclosed world of the concrete ghetto of San Li Tun on her horse -- her bicycle -- with the dictatorial clarity and loneliness of a warrior-philosopher. From puberty onwards, she announces at one point, life is just an epilogue. On the battlefield of an asphalt playground, in between wars with the children of other nations, she discovers her first love: six-year-old Elena, her coldly indifferent Helen of Troy. But she soon learns life's hardest rule: if she wants to be loved, she must be cruel in return.A fast, furious -- and often hilarious -- novel of childhood infatuation and intuited truths, Loving Sabotage chronicles one girl's precocious understanding of the struggles and pains of adult life.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50177733296401,"sku":"CIN0811217825G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51008033259793,"sku":"NIN9780811217828","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51928357273873,"sku":"CIN0811217825VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811217825.jpg?v=1751233679"},{"product_id":"waves-book-bei-dao-9780811211345","title":"Waves","description":"In \u003cem\u003eWaves\u003c\/em\u003e, Bei Dao--China's foremost modern poet--turns to fiction, recording the painful years of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath. Avoiding polemics, his attention is on individuals--intellectuals and factory workers, drifters and thieves--swept up in the turbulent political tides of contemporary China. Bei Dao himself has been a victim of the censors, and he wrote the title novella clandestinely in a makeshift darkroom while ostensibly developing photographs. The author now lives in exile.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50362056900881,"sku":"CIN0811211347VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50366871240977,"sku":"CIN0811211347G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50717160669457,"sku":"GOR008067265","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53392057368849,"sku":"CIN0811211347A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811211347.jpg?v=1750946316"},{"product_id":"recognizable-image-book-william-carlos-williams-9780811218597","title":"A Recognizable Image","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007916736785,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007919390993,"sku":"NIN9780811218597","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0811218597.jpg?v=1751076533"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/new-directions-paperbook-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}