Stats: NYRB Classics, Most Published Authors

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Number of Works	Works	Years	Language/Nationality	Author	% Correct
5	Augustus Butcher's Crossing English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems Nothing but the Night Stoner	1922 - 1994	English/American	John Williams	67%
9	The Alteration Dear Illusion Ending Up Girl, 20 The Green Man Lucky Jim The Old Devils One Fat Englishman Take a Girl Like You	1922 - 1995	English/British	Kingsley Amis	67%
5	Abigail The Door The Fawn Iza's Ballad Katalin Street	1917 - 2007	Hungarian/Hungarian	Magda Szabó	67%
4	Frederick the Great Madame de Pompadour The Sun King Voltaire in Love	1904 - 1973	English/British	Nancy Mitford	67%
5	Beware of Pity Chess Story Confusion Journey into the Past The Post-Office Girl	1881 - 1942	German/Austrian	Stefan Zweig	67%
7	From the Front Line An Armenian Sketchbook Everything Flows Life and Fate The People Immortal The Road Stalingrad	1905 - 1964	Russian/Soviet	Vasily Grossman	67%
5	Blue Lard Ice Trilogy The Queue Red Pyramid Telluria	1955 -	Russian/Russian	Vladimir Sorokin	67%
3	J R Letters of _______ ______ The Recognitions	1922 - 1998	English/American	William Gaddis	67%
3	Asleep in the Sun The Invention of Morel Borges	1914 - 1999	Spanish/Argentine	Adolfo Bioy Casares	33%
3	The Dead Girls' Class TripThe Seventh Cross Transit	1900 - 1983	German/German	Anna Seghers	33%
3	The SilentiaryThe Suicides Zama	1922 - 1986	Spanish/Argentine	Antonio di Benedetto	33%
3	The Juniper Tree Our Spoons Came from Woolworths The Vet's Daughter	1907 - 1992	English/British	Barbara Comyns	33%
4	Diary of a Foreigner in Paris Kaputt The Kremlin Ball The Skin	1898 - 1957	Italian/Italian	Curzio Malaparte	33%
4	The New Life Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso	1265 - 1321	Italian/Italian	Dante Alighieri	33%
5	The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty StoriesA Love Affair The Singularity The Stronghold (The Tartar Steppe) Poem Strip (now part of NYRB Comics)	1906 - 1972	Italian/Italian	Dino Buzatti	33%
5	Little Reunions Love in a Fallen City Naked Earth Time Tunnel Written on Water	1920 - 1995	Chinese & English/Chinese and later American	Eileen Chang	33%
5	Angel A Game of Hide and Seek Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont A View of the Harbour You'll Enjoy It When You Get There	1912 - 1975	English/British	Elizabeth Taylor	33%
3	Eve's Hollywood I Used to Be Charming Slow Days, Fast Company	1943 - 2021	English/American	Eve Babitz	33%
3	Fire Names on the Land Storm	1895 - 1980	English/American	George R. Stewart	33%
9	Back Blindness Caught Doting Living Loving Nothing Party Going Surviving: The Uncollected Writings	1905 - 1973	English/British	Henry Green	33%
6	A Woman of ThirtyThe Girl with the Golden Eyes The Human Comedy Letters of Two Brides Lily of the Valley The Unknown Masterpiece / Gambara	1799 - 1850	French/French	Honoré de Balzac	33%
3	Fathers and Sons Virgin Soil Smoke	1818 - 1883	Russian/Russian	Ivan Turgenev	33%
3	The Siege of KrishnapurThe Singapore Grip Troubles	1935 - 1979	English/Anglo-Irish	JG Farrell	33%
3	Down Below The Hearing Trumpet The Stone Door	1917 - 2011	English/British and later Mexican	Leonora Carrington	33%
5	The Cost of LivingA Fairly Good Time Paris Stories The Uncollected Stories of _____ _______ Varieties of Exile (Montreal Stories)	1922 - 2014	English/Canadian	Mavis Gallant	33%
3	Family and Borghesia Family Lexicon Valentino and Sagittarius	1916 - 1991	Italian/Italian	Natalia Ginzburg	33%
8	Between the Woods and the Water The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos Mani Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece A Time of Gifts A Time to Keep Silence The Traveller's Tree The Violins of Saint-Jacques	1915 - 2011	English/British	Patrick Leigh Fermor	33%
3	Boys Alive Theorem Petrolio	1922 - 1975	Italian/Italian	Pier Paolo Pasolini	33%
4	The Fox in the AtticA High Wind in Jamaica In Hazard The Wooden Shepherdess	1900 - 1976	English/Welsh	Richard Hughes	33%
4	A Favourite of the Gods; and Compass Error Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education A Legacy A Visit to Don Otavio	1911 - 2006	English/German-British	Sybille Bedford	33%
3	Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me	1872 - 1952	Russian/Russian	Teffi	33%
3	Agostino Boredom Contempt	1907 - 1990	Italian/Italian	Alberto Moravia	0%
3	The Book of Blam Kapo The Use of Man	1924 - 2003	Serbo-Croatian/Serbian	Aleksandar Tišma	0%
3	The End of Me In Love My Face for the World to See	1911 - 1985	English/American	Alfred Hayes	0%
4	Afternoon Raag Freedom Song Immortals A Strange and Sublime Address	1962 -	English/English-Indian	Amit Chaudhuri	0%
5	The Fierce and Beautiful World (replaced by Soul) Chevengur The Foundation Pit Happy Moscow Soul: And Other Stories	1899 - 1951	Russian/Soviet	Andrey Platonov	0%
5	The Collected Essays of _________ ________The New York Stories of _________ ________ Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature Sleepless Nights The Uncollected Essays of _________ ________	1916 - 2007	English/American	Elizabeth Hardwick	0%
3	Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800 Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815 Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1815-1830	1768 - 1848	French/French	François-René de Chateaubriand	0%
11	Act of Passion Dirty Snow The Engagement The Man Who Watched Trains Go Monsieur Monde Vanishes Pedigree Red Lights The Strangers in the House Three Bedrooms in Manhattan Tropic Moon The Widow	1903 - 1989	French/Belgian	Georges Simenon	0%
4	Abel and Cain An Ermine in Czernopol Memoirs of an Anti-Semite The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography	1914 - 1998	German/Austrian-born, Romanian, Bukovina-German	Gregor von Rezzori	0%
3	Afloat Alien Hearts Like Death (Strong as Death)	1850 - 1893	French/French	Guy de Maupassant	0%
5	The Ivory TowerThe New York Stories of _____ _____ On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays The Other House The Outcry	1843 - 1916	English/American-British	Henry James	0%
4	A Chill in the Air: An Italian War Diary, 1939-1940 Images & Shadows: Part of a Life The Merchant of Prato War in Val d'Orcia	1902 - 1988	English/British and later Italian	Iris Origo	0%
4	Hill A King Alone Melville The Open Road	1895 - 1970	French/French	Jean Giono	0%
7	Fatale Ivory Pearl The Mad and the Bad Nada The N'Gustro Affair No Room at the Morgue Skeletons in the Closet	1942 - 1995	French/French	Jean-Patrick Manchette	0%
3	Morte d'Urban The Stories of __ ______ Wheat that Springeth Green	1917 - 1999	English/American	JF Powers	0%
3	Herself Surprised The Horse's Mouth To Be a Pilgrim	1888 - 1957	English/Anglo-Irish	Joyce Cary	0%
3	Inhuman Land Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History	1896 - 1993	Polish/Polish	Józef Czapski	0%
4	Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal My Dog Tulip My Father and Myself We Think The World of You	1896 - 1967	English/British	JR Ackerley	0%
5	The Day of the Owl Equal Danger The Moro Affair To Each His Own The Wine-Dark Sea	1921 - 1989	Italian/Italian	Leonardo Sciascia	0%
3	Fortunes of War: The Balkan Trilogy Fortunes of War: The Levant Trilogy School for Love	1908 - 1980	English/British	Olivia Manning	0%
3	A Sorrow Beyond Dreams Short Letter, Long Farewell Slow Homecoming	1942 -	German/Austrian	Peter Handke	0%
3	The Skin of Dreams We Always Treat Women Too Well Witch Grass	1903 - 1976	French/French	Raymond Queneau	0%
6	Berlin Stories Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories Jakob von Gunten Little Snow Landscape A Schoolboy's Diary and Other Stories Selected Stories	1878 - 1956	German/Swiss	Robert Walser	0%
5	Autobiography of a Corpse The Letter Killers Club Memories of the Future The Return of Munchausen Unwitting Street	1887 - 1950	Russian/Soviet (though Ukrainian-born of Polish parents)	Sigismund Krzyzanowski	0%
4	The Corner That Held Them Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman Mr Fortune's Maggot and The Salutation Summer Will Show	1893 - 1978	English/British	Sylvia Townsend Warner	0%
3	The End of the HuntThe Tenants of Time The Year of the French	1923 - 2002	English/American	Thomas Flanagan	0%
5	Fair Play The Summer Book Sun City The True Deceiver The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories	1914 - 2001	Swedish/Finland-Swedish	Tove Jansson	0%
7	The Case of Comrade Tulayev Conquered City Last Times Memoirs of a Revolutionary Midnight in the Century Notebooks 1936-1947 Unforgiving Years	1890 - 1947	French/Belgian-born Russian	Victor Serge	0%
3	All for Nothing Marrow and Bone An Ordinary Youth	1929 - 2007	German/German	Walter Kempowski	0%

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