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An Accidental Familyby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard FreebornISBN 0192828363 (0-19-282836-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Accidental Family'Book summary:Set in the 1870s, a time of social disorder in Russia, An Accidental Family is the story of Arkady Dolgoruky, an awkward, illegitimate twenty-year-old on a desperate search for his family. This new translation of Dostoevsky's last completed novel fully captures the raciness and youthful vigor of the original text, and expresses "the innermost spiritual world of someone on the eve of manhood at that tumultuous time." [via]
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Aphorismsby George Christoph Lichtenberg, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140445196 (0-14-044519-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Before the Stormby Theodor Fontane, R.J. HollingdaleISBN 0192816497 (0-19-281649-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Birth of Tragedyby Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael TannerISBN 0140433392 (0-14-043339-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of Tragedy'Book summary:Dedicated to Richard Wagner, The Birth of Tragedy is rich in Nietzche's current enthusiams for Greek literature and especially tragedy, for Schopenhauer and Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Its central vision is the idea that "only as an aesthetic phenomenon are existence and the world justified." Making his celebrated distinction between the Apolline and the Dionysiac spirit, Nietzche presses us to consider why it is that we derive pleasure from tragic art, and what is the relationship between our experiences of suffering in life and in art. The Birth of Tragedy was his first book. Occasionally flawed and impetuous in argument, it is non the less a triumph of passionate energy and insight. [via]
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Brigitta and Other Talesby Adalbert Stifter, Helen Watanabe-O'KellyISBN 0140446303 (0-14-044630-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Children Are Civilians Tooby Heinrich Boll, Leila VennewitzISBN 0140187251 (0-14-018725-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Children Are Civilians Too'Book summary:The surge of Boll reprints continues here with this collection of 26 short stories. Typical of his writings, these reveal German life during World War II and immediately thereafter. LJ's reviewer found that this "is not just a loose collection, and the cumulative effect is powerful" (LJ 4/15/70).
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Civilization of the Renaissance in Italyby Jacob Burckhardt, S.G.C. MiddlemoreISBN 014044534X (0-14-044534-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'Book summary:For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome as providing the seeds of a new form of society, and traces the rise of the creative individual, from Dante to Michelangelo. A fascinating description of an era of cultural transition, this nineteenth-century masterpiece was to become the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance, and anticipated ideas such as Nietzsche's concept of the 'Ubermensch' in its portrayal of an age of genius. [via]
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Classics of Modern Fictionby Irving HoweISBN 0155076450 (0-15-507645-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Complete Plays, Lenz & Other Writingsby Georg Buchner, John ReddickISBN 0140445862 (0-14-044586-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Contemporary East European Poetryby Emery Edward GeorgeISBN 0195086368 (0-19-508636-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Contemporary East European Poetryby George EmeryISBN 019508635X (0-19-508635-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David McDuffISBN 0140449132 (0-14-044913-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Crime and Punishment is one of the most important novels of the nineteenth century. It is the story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor. This new edition of the authoritative and readable Coulson translation comes with a challenging new introduction and notes that elucidate many of the novel's most important--and difficult--aspects. [via]
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Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Crime and Punishment: ISBN 0140621806 (0-14-062180-6)
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The Danzig Trilogy of Gunter Grass: A Study of the Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Yearsby John ReddickISBN 0156238292 (0-15-623829-2)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Diary of a Madman and Other Storiesby Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Ronald WilksISBN 0140442731 (0-14-044273-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Discovery of Heavenby Harry Mulisch, Paul VincentISBN 0140239375 (0-14-023937-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Early Writingsby Karl MarxISBN 0140445749 (0-14-044574-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Early Writings'Book summary:Marx was barely 25 when he produced this astonishing rich body of workincluding economic and Philosophical Manuscripts and On the Jewish Question.[via]More editions of Early Writings:
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Early Writings [of] Karl Marxby Karl MarxISBN 0140216685 (0-14-021668-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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Eight German Novellasby Michael Fleming, Andrew J. WebberISBN 0192832182 (0-19-283218-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eight German Novellas'Book summary:This selection features eight Novellen by leading German writers of the nineteenth century. Newly translated, each piece has an introduction which explores the many contradictions in the theory and practice of the novella, as well as analysis of the narrative devices of individual stories. Included here are Blond Eckbert, by Ludwig Tieck, The Marchioness of O..., by Heinrich von Kleist, Lenz, by Georg Büchner, The Jew's Beech, by Annette von Droste-Bülshoff, Tourmaline, by Adalbert Stifter, Mozart on the Way to Prague, by Eduard B "orike, Clothes Make the Man, by Gottfried Keller, and
The White Horse Rider, by Theodor Storm. These carefully selected novellas provide a means of surveying an important and widely-studied genre in German literature. [via]More editions of Eight German Novellas:
Fictionsby Wade C. Jennings, Joseph F. TrimmerISBN 0155039679 (0-15-503967-9)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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Fictionsby Joseph F. Trimmer, C. Wade JenningsISBN 0155273264 (0-15-527326-4)
Softcover, Harcourt College Pub
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Gargoylesby Thomas BernhardISBN 0226043991 (0-226-04399-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Goetheby T.J. ReedISBN 0192875027 (0-19-287502-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Goethe the Poet and the Age: Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803)by Nicholas BoyleISBN 0198158696 (0-19-815869-6)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Goethe, Faustby Nicholas BoyleISBN 0192829815 (0-19-282981-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Outby Gunter GrassISBN 0156399954 (0-15-639995-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out'Book summary:Harm and Dörte Peters, the quintessential couple, are on vacation in Asia. But wherever they are, they can't get away from the political upheaval back home. With irony and wit, Grass takes aim at capitalism, communism, religion-even reproduction; nothing escapes unscathed. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of Headbirths or the Germans Are Dying Out:
Hegel's Philosophy of Rightby Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelISBN 0195002768 (0-19-500276-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Heidiby Johanna Spyri, Eileen Hall, Cecil LeslieISBN 0140366792 (0-14-036679-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heidi'Book summary:Johanna Spyri's classic story of a young orphan sent to live with her grumpy grandfather in the Swiss Alps is retold in it's entirety in this beautifully bound hardcover edition. Heidi has charmed and intrigued readers since it's original publication in 1880. Much more than a children's story, the narrative is also a lesson on the precarious nature of freedom, a luxury too often taken for granted. Heidi almost loses her liberty as she is ripped away from the tranquility of the mountains to tend to a sick cousin in the city. Happily, all's well that ends well, and the reader is left with only warm, fuzzy thoughts. Spryi's story will never grow wearisome--and this is a very appealing edition. --Naomi Gesinger [via]
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Hitlerby Joachim C. FestISBN 0156027542 (0-15-602754-2)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler'Book summary:A bestseller in its original German edition and subsequently translated into more than a dozen languages, this book has become a classic portrait of a man, a nation, and an era. Index. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via] 
Hitler's Vienna: A Dictator's Apprenticeshipby Brigitte Hamann, Thomas ThorntonISBN 0195140532 (0-19-514053-2)
Softcover, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860-1920by Hermann Broch, Michael P. SteinbergISBN 0226075168 (0-226-07516-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Selected Talesby Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Joyce CrickISBN 0192804790 (0-19-280479-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Selected Tales'Book summary:The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once familiar, fantastic, and frightening. They seem to belong to no time, or to some distant feudal age of fairytale imagining. Grand palaces, humble cottages, and the forest full of menace are their settings; and they are peopled by kings and princesses, witches and robbers, millers and golden birds, stepmothers and talking frogs.
Regarded from their inception either as simple nursery stories or as raw material for the folklorist, the tales were in fact compositions, collected from literate tellers and shaped into a distinctive kind of literature. This new translation mirrors the apparent artlessness of the Grimms, and fully represents the range of less well-known fables, morality tales, and comic stories as well as the classic tales. It takes the stories back to their roots in German Romanticism and includes variant stories and tales that were deemed unsuitable for children. In her fascinating Introduction, Joyce Crick explores their origins, and their literary evolution at the hands of the Grimms. [via]More editions of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Selected Tales:
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Selected Talesby Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, David LukeISBN 0140444017 (0-14-044401-7)
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Kafka: The Decisive Yearsby Reiner Stach, Shelley FrischISBN 0151007527 (0-15-100752-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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The Lime Worksby Thomas BernhardISBN 0226043975 (0-226-04397-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Little Man and the Little Missby Erich Kastner, Horst LemkeISBN 0224615777 (0-224-61577-7)
Hardcover, Cape
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The Marquise of Oby Heinrich Von Kleist, David Luke, Nigel ReevesISBN 0146001877 (0-14-600187-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Marquise of O'Book summary:One of 60 low-priced classic texts published to celebrate Penguin's 60th anniversary. All the titles are extracts from "Penguin Classics" titles. [via]
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Maxims and Reflectionsby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Peter Hutchinson, Elisabeth StoppISBN 0140447202 (0-14-044720-2)
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Middle High German Reader With Grammar, Notes and Glossaryby Maurice O'Connell WalsheISBN 0198720823 (0-19-872082-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Mozart's Journey to Prague and a Selection of Poemsby David Luke, Eduard Morike, Gilbert McKayISBN 0140447377 (0-14-044737-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Nietzsche Readerby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140443290 (0-14-044329-0)
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Notes from the Underground and the Gamblerby Fedor Dostoevsky, Jane KentishISBN 0192836269 (0-19-283626-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes from the Underground and the Gambler'Book summary:One of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movement. The Gambler explores the compulsive nature of gambling, one of Dostoevsky's own vices and a subject he describes with extraordinary acumen and drama. Both works are new translations, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series. [via]
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On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebaldby Eric L. SantnerISBN 0226735036 (0-226-73503-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983by Günter Grass, Ralph Manheim, Salman RushdieISBN 0156687933 (0-15-668793-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983'Book summary:Grass-novelist, poet, and graphic artist-is also a committed political activist. In this collection of essays, he takes on writing and politics with his accustomed verve and insight. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of On Writing and Politics, 1967-1983:
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Orlando: A Biographyby Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey, Maria DibattistaISBN 0156031515 (0-15-603151-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Orlando: A Biography'Book summary:In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. [via]
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The Oxford Companion to German Literatureby Mary GarlandISBN 0198158963 (0-19-815896-3)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Peeling the Onionby Gnnter Grass, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0151014779 (0-15-101477-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Penguin Book of German Verseby Leonard ForsterISBN 014058546X (0-14-058546-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Plays of Georg Buchnerby Georg Buchner, Victor PriceISBN 0192811207 (0-19-281120-7)
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The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising: German Tragedyby Gunter GrassISBN 0156720507 (0-15-672050-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten Van Dorpby Betty Radice, Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus of RotterdamISBN 0140446087 (0-14-044608-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten Van Dorp'Book summary:Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466 1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles and frailties, to mock theologians and monks and to praise the folly' of simple Christian piety. Erasmus's wit, wordplay and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The Letter to Maarten van Dorp, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included. [via]
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Praise of Folly: And, Letter to Martin Dorp, 1515by Desiderius ErasmusISBN 0140442405 (0-14-044240-5)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Precision and Soul: Essays and Addressesby Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. LuftISBN 0226554090 (0-226-55409-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Best known as author of the novel The Man without Qualities, Robert Musil wrote these essays in Vienna and Berlin between 1911 and 1937. Offering a perspective on modern society and intellectual life, they are concerned with the crisis of modern culture as it manifests itself in science and mathematics, capitalism and nationalism, the changing roles of women and writers, and more. Writing to find his way in a world where moral systems everywhere were seemingly in decay, Musil strives to reconcile the ongoing conflict between functional relativism and the passionate search for ethical values.
Robert Musil was born in 1880 and died in 1942. His first novel, Young Törless, is available in English. A new two-volume translation by Burton Pike and Sophie Wilkins of The Man without Qualities is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf.
"Now we have these thirty-one invaluable and entertaining pieces, from an article on 'The Obscene and Pathological in Art' to the equally provocative talk 'On Stupidity,' which, with a new translation of The Man without Qualities forthcoming . . . amount to a literary event for the reader of English comparable to Constance Garnett's massive translation of Chekhov's stories."Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune
"Musil is one of the few great moderns, one of the handful who ventured to confront the issues that shape and define our time. . . . He has a range and a striking capacity every bit as great as that of Mann, Joyce, or Beckett."Boston Review
"These essays are crucial in understanding a writer and critic whose lifelong task was an attempt to resolve the dichotomy between the precision of scientific form and the soulthe matter of life and art."ChoiceMore editions of Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses:
Ratby Gunter Grass, Ralph ManheimISBN 015675830X (0-15-675830-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writingsby Walter BenjaminISBN 0156762455 (0-15-676245-5)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Selected Poetryby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, David LukeISBN 0140424563 (0-14-042456-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Selected Verseby Heinrich Heine, Peter BranscombeISBN 0140420983 (0-14-042098-3)
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Show Your Tongueby Günter Grass, John E. WoodsISBN 0156823306 (0-15-682330-6)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Sketchbook 1966-1971by Max FrischISBN 0156827476 (0-15-682747-6)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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Sleepless Daysby Jurek BeckerISBN 0156827654 (0-15-682765-4)
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Socrates, Buddha, Confucius and Jesusby Karl JaspersISBN 0156835800 (0-15-683580-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Speculations About Jacobby Uwe JohnsonISBN 0156847191 (0-15-684719-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Speculations About Jacob'Book summary:This arresting novel by one of Germany's foremost modern writers dramatizes the ideological conflict between East Europe and the West at the time of the Hungarian revolt. The story, which centers around Jakob Abs, an East German railroad dispatcher, illuminates the psychological and political reality of living in a partitioned Germany. Translated by Ursule Molinaro. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.[via]More editions of Speculations About Jacob:
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Storm of Steelby Michael Hofmann, Ernst JungerISBN 0142437905 (0-14-243790-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Swiss Family Robinsonby J.D. Wyss, W.H.G. KingstonISBN 0140367187 (0-14-036718-7)
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Three Novellasby Kenneth J. Northcott, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Bernhard, Brian Evenson, Peter JansenISBN 0226044327 (0-226-04432-7)
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Triptych: Three Scenic Panelsby Max FrischISBN 0151911576 (0-15-191157-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christby Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Dean A. Grennell, R. J. HollingdaleISBN 0140445145 (0-14-044514-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christ'Book summary:[via]'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soulin contempt
In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a grand declaration of war on reason, psychology and theology that combines highly charged personal attacks on his contemporaries with a lightning tour of his own philosophy. It also paves the way for The Anti-Christ, Nietzches final assault on institutional Christianity, in which he identifies himself with the Dionysian artist and confronts Christ; the only opponent he feels worthy of him.
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A Middle High German Reader: With Grammar, Notes, and Glossaryby Joseph Wright, Maurice O'C WalsheISBN 0198720785 (0-19-872078-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press
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