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Adventures of a Simpleton
by Hans J. Grimmelshausen

ISBN 0804462291 (0-8044-6229-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Grimmelshausen's grotesque realism is the primary literary testimony of the Thirty Years' War--and the human folly implicit in it--by an errant soldier of fortune. Influenced by the Spanish picaresque novel, the saga of Simplicius takes its hero through wars, marriages, and travels that culminate on an uncharted South Atlantic island.Walter Wallich, in this translation, aptly captures the zest, the pageantry and the humor of the original. He has also written a special postscript, with revealing sidelights on Grimmelshausen, whose life corresponded in many way to that of his hero. [via]
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After Nature
by Winfried Georg Sebald, Michael Hamburger

ISBN 0375756582 (0-375-75658-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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After Nature, W. G. Sebald's first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind's place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, "an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though more cruel, too, than the previous state of ignorance." The first figure is the great German Re-naissance painter Matthias Grünewald. The second is the Enlightenment botanist-explorer Georg Steller, who accompanied Bering to the Arctic. The third is the author himself, who describes his wanderings among landscapes scarred by the wrecked certainties of previous ages.

After Nature introduces many of the themes that W. G. Sebald explored in his subsequent books. A haunting vision of the waxing and waning tides of birth and devastation that lie behind and before us, it confirms the author's position as one of the most profound and original writers of our time. [via]
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Auto-Da-Fe
by Elias Canetti, C. V. Wedgwood

ISBN 0374518793 (0-374-51879-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Auto-da-Fé, Elias Canetti's only work of fiction, is a staggering achievement that puts him squarely in the ranks of major European writers such as Robert Musil and Hermann Broch. It is the story of Peter Kien, a scholarly recluse who lives among and for his great library. The destruction of Kien through the instrument of the illiterate, brutish housekeeper he marries constitutes the plot of the book. The best writers of our time have been concerned with the horror of the modern world--one thinks of Kafka, to whom Canetti has often been compared. But Auto-de-Fé stands as a completely original, unforgettable treatment of the modern predicament.
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  Hardcover, Seabury Press
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Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger
by Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell

ISBN 0415101611 (0-415-10161-1)
Softcover, Routledge

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A concise introduction to this controversial and important twentieth-century philosopher. David Farrell Krell has improved this collection by adding The Way to Language and the complete version of The Origin of the Work of Art. [via]
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Being and Time: A Translation of Sein and Zeit
by Martin Heidegger

ISBN 0631197702 (0-631-19770-2)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing Limited

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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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Biedermann Und Die Brandstifter Ein Lehrstruck Ohne Mit Einem Anch Spiel
by Max Frisch

ISBN 0395040906 (0-395-04090-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. [via]
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Danton's Death
by Georg Buchner

ISBN 0413512606 (0-413-51260-6)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group

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Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena, Woyzeck
by Georg Buchner, Victor Price

ISBN 0192836501 (0-19-283650-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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A collection of Buchner's three plays with an introduction by Price and a new chronology of the author. The revised translations attempt to reflect discoveries about Buchner's intentions. The German writer, Georg Buchner, died in 1837 at the age of 23 and left only three works for the theatre, one a fragment. "Danton's Death", his play about the French Revolution was written in five weeks when the 21 year old medical student was under threat of arrest for his own revolutionary activities. His romantic black comedy "Leonce and Lena" was composed in haste for a publisher's competition for which it was entered too late. "Woyzeck", on which Alban Berg based his opera, was left unfinished at Buchner's death. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century and the first stage production of any of them was in 1895. Today the plays are being performed with greater frequency. [via]
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Dantons Tod and Woyzeck
by Margaret Jacobs

ISBN 071900456X (0-7190-0456-X)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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Diaries of Franz Kafka 1914-1923
by Franz Kafka

ISBN 0805204253 (0-8052-0425-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Die Neuen Leiden Des Jungen
by Ulrich Plenzdorf

ISBN 047102855X (0-471-02855-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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Elective Affinities
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0192837761 (0-19-283776-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Elective Affinities was written when Goethe was sixty and long established as Germany's literary giant. This is a new edition of his penetrating study of marriage and passion, bringing together four people in an inexorable manner. The novel asks whether we have free will or not and confronts its characters with the monstrous consequences of repressing what little "real life" they have in themselves, a life so far removed from their natural states that it appears to them as something terrible and destructive. [via]
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The Firebugs: A Morality Without a Moral
by Max Frisch, Michael Bullock

ISBN 0809012480 (0-8090-1248-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Franz Kafka: Der Dichter uber Sein Werk
by Franz Kafka, Max Brod

ISBN 0805209069 (0-8052-0906-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafkas death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafkas accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.
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Gertrude
by Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner

ISBN 0312424639 (0-312-42463-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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With Gertrude, Herman Hesse continues his life-long exploration of the irreconcilable elements of human existence. In this fictional memoir, the renowned composer Kuhn recounts his tangled relationships with two artistshis friend Heinrich Muoth, a brooding, self-destructive opera singer, and the gentle, self-assured Gertrude Imthor. Kuhn is drawn to Gertrude upon their first meeting, but Gertrude falls in love with Heinrich, to whom she is introduced when Kuhn auditions them for the leads in his new opera. Hopelessly ill-matched, Gertrude and Heinrich have a disastrous marriage that leaves them both ruined. Yet this tragic affair also becomes the inspiration for Kuhn's opera, the most important success of his artistic career.
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Handbuch Zur Deutschen Grammatik
by Larry D. Wells, Jamie Rankin

ISBN 0618013458 (0-618-01345-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Handbuch Zur Deutschen Grammatik: Wiederholen Und Anwenden
by Larry D. Wells, Jammie Rankin

ISBN 0618013431 (0-618-01343-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div

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Heidi
by Johanna Spyri

ISBN 0448173395 (0-448-17339-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Heartwarming tale of a cheerful orphan sent to live with her hermit-like grandfather high in the Swiss Alps. There, she transforms the lives of Peter, a goatherd; Peter's blind grandmother; Clara, a well-to-do but sickly girl; and even the old Alm-Uncle, Heidi's surly grandfather. A delightful story "for children and those who love children."
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Heidi
by Dk

ISBN 0756612764 (0-7566-1276-4)
Softcover, Dk Pub

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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
by Sarah Stephen

ISBN 043922506X (0-439-22506-X)
Softcover, Scholastic, Incorporated

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A beautiful retelling of this timeless classic. Heidi is the perfect introduction to classic stories for younger readers.

Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her cranky grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps. Soon she is happy and healthy, leading a carefree life with her grandfather, her new friend, Peter, and the goats on the Alm.
But Heidi's happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for a sick girl, Clara. Although she grows fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick. She eventually returns to the Alps and finds happiness once again in the clean, pure natural mountain setting.
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Heidi Book and Charm
by Johanna Spyri

ISBN 0694014532 (0-694-01453-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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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 Holy Sinner
by Thomas Mann, H.T. Lowe-Porter

ISBN 0520076710 (0-520-07671-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand

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Introduction to German Poetry
by Gustave Mathieu

ISBN 048626713X (0-486-26713-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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Man Without Qualities
by Robert Musil, Burton Pike, Sophie Wilkins

ISBN 0679767878 (0-679-76787-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"Musil belongs in the company of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, and Svevo. . . . (This translation) is a literay and intellectual event of singular importance."--New Republic. [via]
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The Man Without Qualities
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0791081222 (0-7910-8122-2)
Hardcover, Facts on File

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Read a critical interpretation of Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities, edited by Harold Bloom. Includes table of contents, chronology, contributors, bibliography, acknowledgements and index. Critical Guide: 211 pages. [via]
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Man Without Qualities: The Like of It Now Happens

ISBN 0436298007 (0-436-29800-7)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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The Marquise of O--, and Other Stories
by Heinrich Von Kleist

ISBN 0804463654 (0-8044-6365-4)
Softcover, Ungar

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The Marx-Engels Reader
by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Robert C. Tucker

ISBN 0393099652 (0-393-09965-2)
Softcover, Norton

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This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.

Table of Contents

The Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels) Translated by Samuel Moore
Das Kapital (Marx) Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling
Critique of the Gotha Programme (Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Marx) Translated by Emil F. Teichert
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 (Engels) Translated by Florence Kelley Wischnewetzky
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx (Engels)

Essays (Marx) Translated by H. J. Stenning:
A Criticism of The Hegelian Philosophy of Right
On The Jewish Question
On The King of Prussia And Social Reform
Moralizing Criticism And Critical Morality: A Polemic Against Karl
Proudhon
French Materialism
The English Revolution

Appendix:
Karl Marx Biography
Friedrich Engels Biography
List of Works in Alphabetical Order
List of Works in Chronological Order
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The Marx-Engels Reader
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Robert C. Tucker

ISBN 039309040X (0-393-09040-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco, William Weaver

ISBN 0156001314 (0-15-600131-4)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskervilles investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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On the Natural History of Destruction
by Winfried Georg Sebald, Anthea Bell

ISBN 0375756574 (0-375-75657-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001.

On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebalds harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined silences of our time. In it, the acclaimed novelist examines the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment, and the reasons for the astonishing absence of this unprecedented trauma from German history and culture.

This void in history is in part a repression of things -- such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF -- too terrible to bear. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. For Sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.

Sebalds incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebalds intelligence. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics. [via]
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The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: German-English, English-German
by J.B. Sykes, M. Clark, O. Thyen, Werner Scholze-Stubenrecht, Dudenredaktion (Bibliographisches Institut), Oxford University Press

ISBN 0198603657 (0-19-860365-7)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press

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Prince Friedrich of Homburg
by Heinrich Von Kleist

ISBN 0811206947 (0-8112-0694-7)
Softcover, New Directions

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Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Moller

ISBN 0374530718 (0-374-53071-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Wanting to understand the most fundamental questions of the universe isn't the province of ivory-tower intellectuals alone, as this book's enormous popularity has demonstrated. A young girl, Sophie, becomes embroiled in a discussion of philosophy with a faceless correspondent. At the same time, she must unravel a mystery involving another young girl, Hilde, by using everything she's learning. The truth is far more complicated than she could ever have imagined. [via]
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Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi

ISBN 068484477X (0-684-84477-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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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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Tomi Ungerer's Heidi
by Johanna Spyri, Helen B. Dole

ISBN 0385302444 (0-385-30244-4)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books

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The dramatic story of Heidi has enthralled generations of children. Tom Ungerer's Heidi evokes all the charm and imaginative power of the original--here in its complete text. 150 illustrations, 30 in full-color. [via]
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Twilight of the Idols and the Anti Christ
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Dean A. Grennell, R. J. Hollingdale

ISBN 0140445145 (0-14-044514-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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'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.

In his introduction Michael Tanner discussed the themes of Nietzches argument and places the works in their historical and philosophical context.

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Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist
by Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Common

ISBN 0486434605 (0-486-43460-5)
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Written in 1888, while Nietzsche was at the height of his brilliance, these 2 polemics blaze with provocative, inflammatory rhetoric. Nietzsche's "grand declaration of war," Twilight of the Idols examines what we worship and why. In addition to its full-scale attack on Christianity and Jesus Christ, The Antichrist denounces organized religion as a whole.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera

ISBN 057113209X (0-571-13209-X)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber

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A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'. [via]
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The Will to Power
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, R.J. Hollingdale, Walter Arnold Kaufmann

ISBN 0394704371 (0-394-70437-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others. [via]
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- The Will to Power: ISBN 0297763326 (0-297-76332-6)
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Biedermann Und Die Brandstifter
by Max Frisch

ISBN 0415027586 (0-415-02758-6)
Softcover, Routledge

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Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. [via]
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