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7 Years in Tibetby Heinrich HarrerISBN 0708908543 (0-7089-0854-3)
Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books
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Bambiby Rh Disney, Bob GrantISBN 0736423087 (0-7364-2308-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Banner of the Upright Seven, and Ursula: Two Novellasby Gottfried KellerISBN 0804463549 (0-8044-6354-9)
Softcover, Ungar
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Before the Rainy Seasonby Gert HofmannISBN 0802111637 (0-8021-1163-7)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeitby Martin Heidegger, Joan StambaughISBN 0791426785 (0-7914-2678-5)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit'Book summary:Martin Heidegger paved the road trod on by the existentialists with the 1927 publication of Being and Time. His encyclopedic knowledge of philosophy from ancient to modern times led him to rethink the most basic concepts underlying our thinking about ourselves. Emphasizing the "sense of being" (dasein) over other interpretations of conscious existence, he argued that specific and concrete ideas form the bases of our perceptions, and that thinking about abstractions leads to confusion at best. Thus, for example, "time" is only meaningful as it is experienced: the time it takes to drive to work, eat lunch, or read a book is real to us; the concept of "time" is not.
Unfortunately, his writing is difficult to follow, even for the dedicated student. Heidegger is best read in German: his neologisms and other wordplay strain the talents of even the best translators. Still, his thoughts about authentic being and his turning the philosophical ground inspired many of the greatest thinkers of the mid 20th century, from Sartre to Derrida. Unfortunately, political and other considerations forced Heidegger to leave Being and Time unfinished; we can only wonder what might have been otherwise. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Berlin Alexander Platzby Alfred DoblinISBN 080446121X (0-8044-6121-X)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Bert Brechtby Willy HaasISBN 0804423237 (0-8044-2323-7)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Between Heaven and Earthby Otto LudwigISBN 0804464537 (0-8044-6453-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Blue Man and Other Storiesby Adolf Muschg, Marlis Z. Cambon, Michael HamburgerISBN 080761100X (0-8076-1100-X)
Hardcover, Firefly Books, Limited
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Brecht, Der Kaukasische Kreidekreisby James MacPherson RitchieISBN 0713158522 (0-7131-5852-2)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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The Bridgeby Franz KafkaISBN 0805238565 (0-8052-3856-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, Ludwig Goldscheider, S.G.C. MiddlemoreISBN 0714833630 (0-7148-3363-0)
Softcover, Phaidon Inc Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:Jacob Burckhardt was a scholar who had the gift of being able to combine vast knowledge with a vivid imagination and lively creativity. This book, his contribution to cultural history, was first published in 1860, and has long been recognized as a great work of literature as well as history; its range, powerful style, and breadth of vision make it a classic introduction to the study of the Renaissance, and one that is still a source of inspiration. "My starting point has to be a vision,' Burckhardt wrote to a friend, `otherwise I cannot do anything. Vision I call not only optical, but also spiritual realization; for instance, historical vision issuing from the old sources." The work covers the period from the birth of Dante to the death of Michelangelo, and is divided into six sections, covering politics, the rise of individualism, the revival of antiquity, science and humanism, society and festivals, and morality and religion. However, these headings do not do justice to the text, nor to the skill with which the author controls his material and unfolds his vision of the developing Renaissance. Within this framework the author gives an account of a whole range of subjects - from literature and the arts to home life, fashion, and superstition - illuminating all aspects of life in the Renaissance. [via]
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Collected Short Storiesby Ralph Manheim, Bertolt Brecht, John WillettISBN 0749399333 (0-7493-9933-3)
Softcover, Minerva
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Communicating Vesselsby Andre Breton, Geoffrey T. Harris, Mary Ann CawsISBN 0803261357 (0-8032-6135-7)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Communicating Vessels'Book summary:What Freud did for dreams, André Breton (18961966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the redemptive force of imagination. Originally published in 1932 in France, Les Vases communicants is an effort to show how the discoveries and techniques of surrealism could lead to recovery from despondency. This English translation makes available "the theories upon which the whole edifice of surrealism, as Breton conceived it, is based."[via]In Communicating Vessels Breton lays out the problems of everyday experience and of intellect. His involvement with political thought and action led him to write about the relations between nations and individuals in a mode that moves from the quotidian to the lyrical. His dreams triggered a curious correspondence with Freud, available only in this book. As Caws writes, "The whole history of surrealism is here, in these pages."
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoevsky, Margaret BrantleyISBN 074348763X (0-7434-8763-X)
Softcover, Washington Square Pr
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Dantons Tod and Woyzeckby Georg Buchner, Margaret JacobsISBN 0719043530 (0-7190-4353-0)
Softcover, Manchester Univ Pr
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Dantons Tod and Woyzeckby Margaret JacobsISBN 071900456X (0-7190-0456-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Deputyby Richard Winston, Clara Winston, Rolf HochhuthISBN 0801856531 (0-8018-5653-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Deputyby Rolf Hochhuth, Albert Schweitzer, Richard Winston, Clara WinstonISBN 0802142427 (0-8021-4242-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Description of a Struggleby Franz KafkaISBN 080523053X (0-8052-3053-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Double-Bass (Bloomsbury Classics)by Michael Hofmann, Patrick SuskindISBN 0747537232 (0-7475-3723-2)
Softcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Edward II: A Chronicle Playby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0802151477 (0-8021-5147-7)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edward II: A Chronicle Play'Book summary:Edward II is a major play and, in a sense, Bertolt Brecht's only tragedy. Based on Christopher Marlowe's classic of the same name, it departs from its sourse as widely as The Three penny Opera departs from Gay' Beggar's Opera. Brecht not only make a hundred techinal changes calculated to give the play a smaller cast and a simpler action, he creates virtually new and amazing characters out of Anne (Edward's queen) and Mortimer, the villain of the piece. He also interprets Marlowe's famously homosexual protagonist. If this Edward is more crudely homoerotic in the begining, in the end he is more of a hero and at that a hero of the modern era: an existential hero defying a meaningless universe with his courage. [via]
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Egmont: A Tragedy in Five Actsby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0804461856 (0-8044-6185-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Emperor's Tombby Joseph RothISBN 0701128267 (0-7011-2826-7)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Erecby Hartmann VonaueISBN 0803273290 (0-8032-7329-0)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Franz Kafka : A Biographyby Max BrodISBN 0805200479 (0-8052-0047-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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From "the Magic Mountain"by HartfieldISBN 0801412048 (0-8014-1204-8)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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German Antiquity in Renaissance Mythby Frank L. BorchardtISBN 0801812682 (0-8018-1268-2)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Press
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Goethe's Theory of Poetry: Faust and the Regeneration of Languageby Benjamin BennettISBN 0801418992 (0-8014-1899-2)
Hardcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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The Great Wall of China : Stories and Reflectionsby Franz Kafka, Willa Muir, Edwin MuirISBN 0805204199 (0-8052-0419-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Angelo Rinaldi, Beverly ClearyISBN 0753454947 (0-7534-5494-7)
Hardcover, Kingfisher Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:A Treasury of Illustrated Classics. About Orpahned Heidi and what a wonderful surprise she is for her lonely grandfather. A moving story of high spirits and adventure [via]
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Heidiby DkISBN 0756612764 (0-7566-1276-4)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Children love to listen to stories and now their favorite DK children's books are available in convenient book and CD packages. With more than 60 minutes of audio on each CD, these packages will be favorites of children and parents alike. [via]
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Heidi Book and Charmby Johanna SpyriISBN 0694014532 (0-694-01453-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi Book and Charm'Book summary:Heidi is only five when she is taken to live high in the Alps with her unusual grandfather. Despite his gruff ways, Heidi grows to love her Grandfather and their life together in the mountains. Her happiness is shattered when her aunt takes her to Frankfurt, but she soon finds her way back home. Discover one of the most charming heroines of all time in Johanna Spyri's classic novel.
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The Heritageby Siegfried LenzISBN 0809054663 (0-8090-5466-3)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Hermann and Dorotheaby Thomas B. OmmenISBN 0804461880 (0-8044-6188-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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I Am a Memory Come Alive: Autobiographical Writingsby Franz Kafka, Nahum N. GlatzerISBN 0805204288 (0-8052-0428-8)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Frontby Derek S. Zumbro, G. H. Bidermann, Dennis ShowalterISBN 0700610162 (0-7006-1016-2)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Front'Book summary:In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Bidermann served in that lethal theater from 1941 to 1945, and his memoir of those years vividly recaptures his grueling experiences with an army marching on the road to ruin.
A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.
Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war trapped in the Courland Pocket. He shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape. He recalls a Christmas gift of gingerbread from home that overcame the stench of battle, an Easter celebrated with a basket of Russian hand grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine gun fire at close range. In closing he relives the humiliation of surrender to an enemy whom the Germans had once derided and offers a sobering glimpse into life in the Soviet gulags.
Bidermann's account also debunks the myth of a highly mechanized German army that rolled over weaker opponents with impunity. Despite the vast expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the war with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving.
Translator Derek Zumbro has rendered Bidermann's memoir into a compelling narrative that retains the author's powerful style. This English-language edition of Bidermann's dynamic story is based upon a privately published memoir entitled Krim-Kurland Mit Der 132 Infanterie Division. Zumbro has also added important events derived from numerous interviews with Bidermann to provide additional context for American readers. [via]
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In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's Memoir of the Eastern Frontby G. H. Bidermann, Dennis Showalter, Derek S. ZumbroISBN 0700611223 (0-7006-1122-3)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, In Deadly Combat conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.
Wounded five times and awarded numerous decorations for valor, Bidermann saw action in the Crimea and siege of Sebastopol, participated in the vicious battles in the forests south of Leningrad, and ended the war trapped in the Courland Pocket. He shares his impressions of countless Russian POWs seen at the outset of his service, of peasants struggling to survive the hostilities while caught between two ruthless antagonists, and of corpses littering the landscape. He recalls a Christmas gift of gingerbread from home that overcame the stench of battle, an Easter celebrated with a basket of Russian hand grenades for eggs, and his miraculous survival of machine gun fire at close range. In closing he relives the humiliation of surrender to an enemy whom the Germans had once derided and offers a sobering glimpse into life in the Soviet gulags.
Bidermann's account also debunks the myth of a highly mechanized German army that rolled over weaker opponents with impunity. Despite the vast expanses of territory captured by the Germans during the early months of Operation Barbarossa, the war with Russia remained tenuous and unforgiving.
Translator Derek Zumbro has rendered Bidermann's memoir into a compelling narrative that retains the author's powerful style. This English-language edition of Bidermann's dynamic story is based upon a privately published memoir entitled Krim-Kurland Mit Der 132 Infanterie Division. Zumbro has also added important events derived from numerous interviews with Bidermann to provide additional context for American readers. [via]
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Inkheartby Cornelia Funke, Anthea BellISBN 0786280417 (0-7862-8041-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inkheart'Book summary:Some books are destined to be lifelong treasured possessions. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, the bestselling German author of The Thief Lord, could easily lay claim to being such a book. It is a meaty, magical adventure that oozes a passion for books and the awesome power of words on a page, written by an author who clearly adores stories. Every chapter is introduced by tempting quotations from classic novels that whet your appetite for more and help underline the terrific heritage of children's literature that Inkheart is added to.
Meggie is the daughter of a revered bookbinder called Mo whose peaceful existence is one night shattered by the arrival of Dustfinger--a shadowy man with a mysterious link to Mo's past. Mo and Meggie are soon on the move, running from something that threatens everything they hold dear. But the past inevitably catches up with them and Mo is forced to reveal to his daughter for the first time his terrible secret. He has the ability, or curse, to breathe life into any story he reads and make the characters come alive. Just such a character, the sinister Capricorn, is after Mo to ensure that he stays alive and is never returned to the pages from which he was sprung. And, of course, he'll stop at nothing to guarantee success.
Inkheart is a treat and echoes of its many colourful characters, nail-biting drama and unrelenting invention will stay with the reader for a long time. It's also a novel for people who really love books. (Recommended for ages 10 and over.) --John McLay [via]
Inkspellby Cornelia Funke, Anthea BellISBN 0786280409 (0-7862-8040-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Jean Paul: A Readerby Jean PaulISBN 0801841534 (0-8018-4153-4)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Jenny Treibelby Theodor FontaneISBN 0804461546 (0-8044-6154-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Kaspar and Other Playsby Peter HandkeISBN 0809015463 (0-8090-1546-3)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Rememberedby Ruth KlugerISBN 0747560056 (0-7475-6005-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury
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The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959by Victor Klemperer, Martin ChalmersISBN 0753817942 (0-7538-1794-2)
Softcover, Phoenix
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959'Book summary:This final volume of Victor Klemperers diaries opens in 1945. After the horrors of the war, Victor and Evas return to their Dresden home seems like a fairytale. Victor tries to resume his distinguished academic career and joins East Germanys Communist Party. In 1951, Eva dies; a year later, aged 70, Victor marries a studentan unlikely but successful love match. But with the growing repression of the Communist Party, and the memory of those who did not survive, Victors achievements ring hollow. Politics, he comes to believe, is, above all, the choice of the lesser evil. A masterpiece both of Holocaust literature and memoir.[via]More editions of The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959:
Letters to Friends, Family and Editorsby Franz KafkaISBN 0805209492 (0-8052-0949-2)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Little Comedy and Other Storiesby Arthur SchnitzlerISBN 0804468397 (0-8044-6839-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literatureby Erich AuerbachISBN 069111336X (0-691-11336-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature'Book summary:A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics.
A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours.
For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, Mimesis is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written.
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The Night Trilogyby Elie WieselISBN 0809015374 (0-8090-1537-4)
Softcover, Hill and Wang
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Observations on Modernityby Niklas LuhmannISBN 0804732353 (0-8047-3235-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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On the Mountainby Thomas Bernhard, Russell StockmanISBN 0704302063 (0-7043-0206-3)
Softcover, Texas Bookman
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The Opperman'sby Lion Feuchtwanger, Ruth GruberISBN 0786708808 (0-7867-0880-8)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia WoolfISBN 070120995X (0-7012-0995-X)
Hardcover, Hogarth Press
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Out of My Life and Thoughtby Albert Schweitzer, Jimmy Carter, Antje Bultmann Lemke, Laura Casing, Rhena Schweitzer MillerISBN 0801860970 (0-8018-6097-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Out of My Life and Thought'Book summary:Out of My Life and Thought is the autobiography of Albert Schweitzer, the theologian, musician, scientist, and medical missionary who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 (and donated his prize to build a leper colony). Schweitzer's autobiography is a masterful and motley blend of confession, narrative, adventure, and philosophy. The chapters about how he came to write The Quest for the Historical Jesus and The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle are indispensable summaries of and apologies for those books; the chapter called "I Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor" is a model of Rilke-style life-changing decision; and the chapters on Bach and on organs are full of fascinating historical and mechanical detail. For contemporary readers, Out of My Life and Thought may be most compelling for its epilogue, which describes the ethical mysticism that Schweitzer called "Reverence for Life," which he achieved in his later years. The epilogue is full of stirringly Germanic passages such as the following: "Once man begins to think about the mystery of his life and the links connecting him with the life that fills the world, he cannot but accept, for his own life and all other life that surrounds him, the principle of Reverence for Life. He will act according to this principle of the ethical affirmation of life in everything he does. His life will become in every respect more difficult than if he lived for himself, but at the same time it will be richer, more beautiful, and happier. It will become, instead of mere living, a genuine experience of life." Because Schweitzer believed Christianity implied such world-encompassing reverence, he had the confidence and faith to "demand from Christianity that it reform itself in the spirit of sincerity and with thoughtfulness, so it may become conscious of its true nature." --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
Parables and Paradoxes: Parabeln und Paradoxeby Franz KafkaISBN 0805204229 (0-8052-0422-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Piano Teacherby Elfriede Jelinek, Joachim NeugroschelISBN 0802118062 (0-8021-1806-2)
Hardcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Piano Teacher'Book summary:The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.[via]
Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears to be a seamless tissue of boredom, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night to watch live sex shows and sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first, but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of sexual perversity, suppressed violence, and human degradation.
Celebrated throughout Europe for the intensity and frankness of her writings and awarded the Heinrich Böll Prize for her outstanding contribution to German letters, Elfriede Jelinek is one of the most original and controversial writers in the world today. The Piano Teacher was made into a film, released in the United States in 2001, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes.More editions of The Piano Teacher:
Praise of Follyby John Wilson, Desiderius Erasmus, Hans HolbeinISBN 0760757607 (0-7607-5760-7)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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The Rainbow Fishby Marcus PfisterISBN 0735812322 (0-7358-1232-2)
Hardcover, North-South Books, Incorporated
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Rainbow Fish: Finders Keepersby Marcus Pfister, J. Alison JamesISBN 0735817480 (0-7358-1748-0)
Hardcover, North South Books
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The Reader and the Writer: Essays, Sketches, Memoriesby Christa WolfISBN 0717804879 (0-7178-0487-9)
Hardcover, Signet
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The Real Tadzioby Gilbert AdairISBN 0786712473 (0-7867-1247-3)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writingsby Walter Benjamin, Peter DemetzISBN 080520802X (0-8052-0802-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings'Book summary:A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin's writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin. He moves seamlessly from literary criticism to autobiography to philosophical-theological speculations, cementing his reputation as one of the greatest and most versatile writers of the twentieth century. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times. [via]
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Reflections of a Nonpolitical Manby Thomas MannISBN 0804464820 (0-8044-6482-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Tr from the Polish by Celina Wieniewska. Orig Pub in Poland in 1937 Under Titleby Bruno SchulzISBN 0802705928 (0-8027-0592-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Scenes from the Life of a Faunby Arno SchmidtISBN 0714527629 (0-7145-2762-9)
Hardcover, Marion Boyars
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Siblings and the Children's Story/a Play and a Novellaby Klaus Mann, Peter Eyre, Tania AlexanderISBN 0714529397 (0-7145-2939-7)
Hardcover, Marion Boyars
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The Silent Prophetby Joseph Roth, David Le VayISBN 0720611350 (0-7206-1135-0)
Softcover, Dufour Editions
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Soul of Woodby Jakov LindISBN 0809015269 (0-8090-1526-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Stones from the Riverby Ursula HegiISBN 0783882025 (0-7838-8202-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stones from the River'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1997: Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River clamors for comparisons to Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum; her protagonist Trudi Montag--like the unforgettable Oskar Mazerath--is a dwarf living in Germany during the two World Wars. To its credit, Stones does not wilt from the comparison. Hegi's book has a distinctive, appealing flavor of its own. Stone's characters are off-center enough to hold your attention despite the inevitable dominance of the setting: There's Trudi's mother, who slowly goes insane living in an "earth nest" beneath the family house; Trudi's best friend Georg, whose parents dress him as the girl they always wanted; and, of course, Trudi herself, whose condition dooms her to long for an impossible normalcy. Futhermore, the reader's inevitable sympathy for Trudi, the dwarf, heightens the true grotesqueness of Nazi Germany. Stones from the River is a nightmare journey with an unforgettable guide. [via]
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Stories for Childrenby Peter BichselISBN 0714506885 (0-7145-0688-5)
Hardcover, Calder & Boyars
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. WyssISBN 0766607127 (0-7666-0712-7)
Hardcover, Modern Pub
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Tannhauser:Poet and Legend: With Texts and Translations of His Worksby J. W. Thomas, TannhauserISBN 0807880779 (0-8078-8077-9)
Hardcover, University of North Carolina Press
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The Terrors of Ice and Darknessby Christoph Ransmayr, John E. WoodsISBN 0802134599 (0-8021-3459-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Thief Lordby Cornelia FunkeISBN 0786280921 (0-7862-8092-1)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thief Lord'Book summary:Imagine a Dickens story with a Venetian setting, and you'll have a good sense of Cornelia Funke's prizewinning novel The Thief Lord, first published in Germany in 2000. This suspenseful tale begins in a detective's office in Venice, as the entirely unpleasant Hartliebs request Victor Getz's services to search for two boys, Prosper and Bo, the sons of Esther Hartlieb's recently deceased sister. Twelve-year-old Prosper and 5-year-old Bo ran away when their aunt decided she wanted to adopt Bo, but not his brother. Refusing to split up, they escaped to Venice, a city their mother had always described reverently, in great detail. Right away they hook up with a long-haired runaway named Hornet and various other ruffians who hole up in an abandoned movie theater and worship the elusive Thief Lord, a young boy named Scipio who steals jewels from fancy Venetian homes so his new friends can get the warm clothes they need. Of course, the plot thickens when the owner of the pawn shop asks if the Thief Lord will carry out a special mission for a wealthy client: to steal a broken wooden wing that is the key to completing an age-old, magical merry-go-round. This winning cast of characters--especially the softhearted detective with his two pet turtles--will win the hearts of readers young and old, and the adventures are as labyrinthine and magical as the streets of Venice itself. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Thirtieth Yearby Ingeborg BachmannISBN 0748661425 (0-7486-6142-5)
Softcover, Small Pr Distribution
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The Threepenny Operaby Kurt WeillISBN 080215039X (0-8021-5039-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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The Training Groundby Siegfried Lenz, Geoffrey SkeltonISBN 0805009434 (0-8050-0943-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madreby B. TravenISBN 0809001608 (0-8090-0160-8)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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The Unicornby Martin WalserISBN 0714508861 (0-7145-0886-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Unvollendete Geschichteby Volker Braun, Andy HollisISBN 0719029899 (0-7190-2989-9)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The World's Great ClassicsISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books
Find This BookBook summary:Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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