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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque

ISBN 0449213943 (0-449-21394-3)
Softcover, Fawcett Books

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Considered by many the greatest war novel of all time, All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarques masterpiece of the German experience during World War I.

I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army during World War I. They become soldiers with youthful enthusiasm. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught breaks in pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches.

Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principle of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another . . . if only he can come out of the war alive.

The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.The New York Times Book Review [via]
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The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
by William Manchester

ISBN 055325992X (0-553-25992-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Tells the extraordinary 400 year saga of the family that provided arms to the Kaiser and to Hitler, and in so doing wielded enormous power and influenced the course of world events. [via]
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The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968
by William Raymond Manchester

ISBN 0316544906 (0-316-54490-6)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co

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Tells the extraordinary 400 year saga of the family that provided arms to the Kaiser and to Hitler, and in so doing wielded enormous power and influenced the course of world events. [via]
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The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty That Armed Germany at War
by William Manchester

ISBN 0316529400 (0-316-52940-0)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co

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The Krupp family were the premier German arms manufacturers from the middle of the 19th century until the end of World War II, producing artillery pieces and submarines that set the standard for effectiveness. This book relates the history of this influential company. [via]
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Berlin Diary
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517446359 (0-517-44635-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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A precurser to the author's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich describes the harrowing Nazi rise to power in Germany during the second half of the 1930s and profiles Hitler's complex personality. [via]
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Berlin Diary : The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
by William L. Shirer

ISBN 0883659220 (0-88365-922-0)
Hardcover, BBS Publishing Corporation

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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 19341941, an Unparalleled Eyewitness Account of Hitler's Germany
by William Shirer

ISBN 1579124429 (1-57912-442-9)
Hardcover, Black Dog & Leventhal Pub

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This book is eligible for free two-day shipping for Amazon Prime Members. Free Super saver shipping for customers who purchase $25 or more on Amazon.. [via]
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941
by William Lawrence Shirer

ISBN 0801870569 (0-8018-7056-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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A precurser to the author's best-selling The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich describes the harrowing Nazi rise to power in Germany during the second half of the 1930s and profiles Hitler's complex personality. [via]
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Berlin: The Downfall 1945
by Antony Beevor

ISBN 0670886955 (0-670-88695-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Uk

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The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

ISBN 0375831002 (0-375-83100-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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Its just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusaks groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she cant resistbooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.

This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.

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Cliffsnotes All Quiet on the Western Front
by Susan Van Kirk

ISBN 0764586718 (0-7645-8671-8)
Softcover, Cliff Notes

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The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.
In CliffsNotes on All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque takes you inside the gruesome realities of World War I through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a sensitive teenager and typical infantryman in the German army.
This study guide will help you begin to consider how Remarque's views on war might relate to modern-day conflicts. You'll also gain insight into the life and cultural background of the author. Other features that help you study include
Character analyses of major players
A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
Critical essays
A review section that tests your knowledge
A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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The Coming of the Third Reich
by Richard Evans

ISBN 1594200041 (1-59420-004-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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This title unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassion, Evans recreates a country torn apart by overwhelming economic, political and social blows: World War I, Versailles, hyperinflation and the Great Depression. One by one these blows ruined or pushed aside almost everything admirable about Germany, leaving the way clear for a truly horrifying ideology to take command. [via]
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Der Vorleser
by Stuart Taberner

ISBN 1853996491 (1-85399-649-1)
Softcover, Intl Pub Marketing Inc

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The theme of the book is the Holocaust and questions of guilt, as it tells the tale of Michael Berg and his affair with Hanna Schmitz, who turns out to have been a guard at Auschwitz and who later hangs herself.
This edition makes the German text accessible to students, providing the full German text, with a substantial Introduction, Commentary, Vocabulary and Bibliography in English.
Bernhard Schlinks novel "Der Vorleser" ("The Reader") has sold over 500,000 copies in Germany, 750,000 in the USA, 200,000 in Britain, and 100,000 in France. It has been translated into 25 languages. [via]
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Der Vorleser: Roman
by Bernhard Schlink

ISBN 3257060653 (3-257-06065-3)
Hardcover, Diogenes

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The Fall of Berlin 1945
by Antony Beevor

ISBN 0142002801 (0-14-200280-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift of the season was a coffin. And for good reason, military historian Antony Beevor writes in this richly detailed reconstruction of events in the final days of Adolf Hitler's Berlin. Following savage years of campaigns in Russia, the Nazi regime had not only failed to crush Bolshevism, it had brought the Soviet army to the very gates of the capital. That army, ill-fed and hungry for vengeance, unloosed its fury on Berlin just a month later in a long siege that would cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides. But as Beevor recounts, the siege was also marked by remarkable acts of courage and even compassion. Drawing on unexplored Soviet and German archives and dozens of eyewitness accounts, Beevor brings us a harrowing portrait of the battle and its terrible aftermath, which would color world history for years to follow. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard Taylor

ISBN 1406807532 (1-4068-0753-2)
Softcover, Echo Library

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Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual, his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One presents Faust's pact with the Devil and the harrowing tragedy of his love affair with the young Gretchen. Part Two shows Faust's experience in the world of public affairs, including his encounter with Helen of Troy, the emblem of classical beauty and culture. The whole is a symbolic and panoramic commentary on the human condition and on modern European history and civilisation. This new translation of both parts of Faust preserves the poetic character of the original, its tragic pathos and hilarious comedy. In addition, John Williams has translated the Urfaust, a fascinating glimpse into the young Goethe's imagination, and a selection from the draft scenarios for the Walpurgis Night witches' sabbath - material so ribald and blasphemous that Goethe did not dare publish it. [via]
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Faust
by Carl R. Mueller, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 1575253607 (1-57525-360-7)
Softcover, Smith & Kraus Pub Inc

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As much poem as it is play, Goethe's Faust is the spiritual quest of a soul determined to explore the very nature of Reality, a revolutionary work that refuses to accept limitations, but, like Romanticism itself, embraces all, the Natural World of everyday life, as well as the Great World of universal experience, the macrocosm as well as the microcosm. The Faust character, the Faustian soul, has become a universal concern. As multifarious as Hamlet and as mythic as Oedipus, he takes us on a journey to the depths and heights of experience and leaves us not the person we were before we met him. It is in Part One of Goethe's masterpiece that we discover Faust as the hero in whose being two contradictory forces collide. He is self-alienated man struggling to expand beyond the limitations of intellect and the known world, desperate to achieve a state, indeed mystical, where the opposites of Knowledge and Sensuality are One. Part One of Faust records that attempt in the context of earthly existence. Goethe's Faust has rightly been called the most audacious work in Western Civilization. [via]
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Faust I & II
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Stuart Atkins

ISBN 069103656X (0-691-03656-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr

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Green Spain, as Northern Spain is often known, offers the visitor a great variety of landscapes: lush forests, deep-green valleys, soaring high mountain scenery, and exquisite beaches. For those looking for more than sun and sand, cultural highlights such as Santiago de Compostela, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are contrasted with the wonderful national parks that can be found in the Central and Eastern Pyrenees. But the best beaches and most charming villages are not neglected. Everything is depicted in the glorious visual style for which Eyewitness Travel Guides are known. [via]
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Faust I and II
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Robert D. MacDonald

ISBN 1870259114 (1-870259-11-4)
Softcover, Oberon Books, Limited

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Perhaps some apology ought to be given to English scholars, that is, those who do not know German, (to those, at least, who do not know what sort of a thing Faust is in the original,) for offering another translation to the public, of a poem which has been already translated, not only in a literal prose form, but also, twenty or thirty times, in metre, and sometimes with great spirit, beauty, and power.
The author of the present version, then, has no knowledge that a rendering of this wonderful poem into the exact and ever-changing metre of the original has, until now, been so much as attempted. To name only one defect, the very best versions which he has seen neglect to follow the exquisite artist in the evidently planned and orderly intermixing of male and female rhymes, i.e. rhymes which fall on the last syllable and those which fall on the last but one. Now, every careful student of the versification of Faust must feel and see that Goethe did not intersperse the one kind of rhyme with the other, at random, as those translators do; who, also, give the female rhyme (on which the vivacity of dialogue and description often so much depends,) in so small a proportion.
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Faust:Parts 1 & 2
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Bayard Taylor

ISBN 0722179049 (0-7221-7904-9)
Hardcover, Sphere

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Faust, Part I
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0553213482 (0-553-21348-2)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept

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Goethes masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust, Part I, the tremendous versatility of Goethes genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethes characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchens tragic fate.

This authoritative edition, which offers Peter Salms wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us Faust in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethes words. [via]
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Faust, Parts One and Two
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 0671478206 (0-671-47820-6)
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Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, "Faust" has made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in "Faust," "Part 1," the tremendous versatility of Goethe's genius creates some of the most beautiful passages in literature. Here too we experience Goethe's characteristic humor, the excitement and eroticism of the witches' Walpurgis Night, and the moving emotion of Gretchen's tragic fate.
This newly revised edition, which offers Peter Salm's wonderfully readable translation as well as the original German on facing pages, brings us "Faust" in a vital, rhythmic American idiom that carefully preserves the grandeur, integrity, and poetic immediacy of Goethe's words. [via]
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Faust/Bilingual
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 055321182X (0-553-21182-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Fausto / Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 9583007722 (958-30-0772-2)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc

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Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version
by C. F. MacIntyre

ISBN 0811200566 (0-8112-0056-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Goethe said that all his works were "one long confession," and certainly into Faust, this greatest masterwork of German literature, on which he worked sixty years, he welded his own search for meaning of existence and of the soul.
From the wager between God and Mephistopheles and the pact Faust makes with the latterthat this genial, urbane devil could have his soul if ever Faust became satisfied with any experience or knowledge Mephistopheles could show himthe drama unfolds in scenes that are human and compelling, that hold the reader by their despair and ecstasy, their tender love, passionate desire and wisdom, but also by their gaiety, humor, and irony. As Faust proceeds with his devilish guide, it is his striving for understanding that becomes important, not the attainment, and in fact this is what saves him in the end.

Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech." [via]
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Great Books of the Western World
by Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard Hutchins

ISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica

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The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

ISBN 0679772685 (0-679-77268-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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In a work that is as authoritative as it is explosive, Goldhagen forces us to revisit and reconsider our understanding of the Holocaust and its perpetrators, demanding a fundamental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933-1945. Drawing principally on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen marshals new, disquieting primary evidence that explains why, when Hitler conceived of the "final solution" he was able to enlist vast numbers of willing Germans to carry it out. A book sure to provoke new discussion and intense debate. [via]
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Im Westen Nichts Neues
by Erich Maria Remarque

ISBN 3462027212 (3-462-02721-2)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books

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Will man den Wehrdienst verweigern und Zivildienst ableisten, dann sollte man in der Gewissensprüfung darlegen können, warum man sich denn keinen Dienst an der Waffe vorstellen kann. Und mehr als einmal dürfte dann als Begründung die Lektüre von Erich Maria Remarques Im Westen nicht Neues folgen.
Dieser Roman schildert aufs Eindringlichste die schauerlichen Erlebnisse des Soldaten Paul Bäumer an der Westfront des Ersten Weltkrieges, wo sich Deutsche und Alliierte in einem grausamen Grabenkrieg gegenüberstanden. Aber eigentlich sind Schauplatz und Zeit bedeutungslos, beherrschend ist das sinnlose Töten und die zu reinem Menschenmaterial degradierten Soldaten, die schon lange den Glauben an den "gerechten Krieg" aufgegeben haben. Hier ist kein Platz für klischeehaft mutige Helden, Verlierer sind sie letztlich alle, die da im Schlamm der Schützengräben liegen.
So mancher Leser wird nach diesem Roman seine Meinung zu Krieg und Militärdienst geändert haben. Wer heute noch glaubt, Krieg könne eine heldenhafte Sache sein, der kennt das Buch wahrscheinlich nicht und sollte einmal einen Blick hinein werfen. Danach ist er entweder eines besseren belehrt oder scheinbar schon völlig abgestumpft. --Joachim Hohwieler [via]
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Inside the Third Reich
by Albert Speer

ISBN 0684829495 (0-684-82949-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster

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From 1946 to 1966, while serving the prison sentence handed down from the Nuremburg War Crimes tribunal, Albert Speer penned 1,200 manuscript pages of personal memoirs. Titled Erinnerungen ("Recollections") upon their 1969 publication in German, Speer's critically acclaimed personal history was translated into English and published one year later as Inside the Third Reich. Long after their initial publication, Speer's memoir continues to provide one of the most detailed and fascinating portrayals of life within Hitler's inner circles, the rise and fall of the third German empire, and of Hitler himself.
Speer chronicles his entire life, but the majority of Inside the Third Reich focuses on the years between 1933 and 1945, when Speer figured prominently in Hitler's government and the German war effort as Inspector General of Buildings for the Renovation of the Federal Capital and later as Minister of Arms and Munitions. Speer's recollections of both duties foreground the impossibility of reconciling Hitler's idealistic, imperialistic ambitions with both architectural and military reality. Throughout, Inside the Third Reich remains true to its author's intentions. With compelling insight, Speer reveals many of the "premises which almost inevitably led to the disasters" of the Third Reich as well as "what comes from one man's holding unrestricted power in his hands." -- Bertina Loeffler [via]
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Inside the Third Reich
by Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing Staff

ISBN 0517385791 (0-517-38579-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Faust, Parts 1 and 2
by Victor Lange

ISBN 0826407250 (0-8264-0725-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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Goethe's masterpiece translated by the eminent English poet and translator Louis MacNeice. [via]
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Monarch Notes on Goethe's Faust
by Paul Montgomery

ISBN 0671005219 (0-671-00521-9)
Hardcover, Pearson Education, Limited

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ... the proper company for his Cadaverousness. In a letter of 1780, Goethe playfully applies the name £rad)e to his friend Merck, who was also a gaunt man. 5671. iBJnrlcrlol', 'wooden cross'; in sarcastic allusion to the Lean Person's appearance. 5678. bctUCflt, 'excitedly'; adv. with entfctltett. 5681. llmfrfjiipytc = befcfjupte, 'scaly.' 5685-6. J)o6cn... fycrnitiictraticn. The dragons (without hands, hence the marvel) take the box, with Mephistopheles sitting on it, out of the chariot and bring it to (heron) where Faust is standing. 5691. ft!) fief lit, 'motley.' 56g6. jur GtnfomfeU. Cf. the words of the Poet in the Prelude, 11. 59 ff. 5706. ticrrnftjcu. Poetry is self-revelation, i.e., self-betrayal. Cf. the lines in the West-Ostlicher Divan, IX, 19: ®rft ficfi im fflefjetmnifs toteflcn, £mn ter)I(mtetn friif) unb fpatl SUcfjter ift umfonft Berf(6wieflen, Sidjten fel&ft ift fdjott Serratfj. 5712. (loltmcnt SBlitte; figurative for the red-golden liquid which rises in the pots and threatens to dissolve the jewels. 5717. ftJimeljen fid), 'are melting,' i.e.,' are on the point of melting,'--whence the need of seizing them quickly. 5718. ©emiinte SRoHcn, 'minted rolls,' i.e., coins. 5719. $u!aten... gepragt = OotbftiidCe tote getorfigte £ufatcn, 'pieces like genuine ducats.' But Schroer says tote geprtigt = hrie lieu ge« torogt. 573-©olb unb 2Bertfy; i.e., roerthtjolle? (roirfltd)e«) ©olb. 5735-6. The meaning is: What 's the use of truth for such as you, ever the ready victims of stupid illusion?--9ln alien 3tyfeltt patfctl, 'to lay hold of by every tag,' i.e., to lay hold of with all one's might. 5753-Oil' UltS all', 'all together,' 'every one of us.' Cf. Sltt OTe in 1. 8483+. 5761-2. Plutus as magician draws an... [via]
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The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink

ISBN 0375707972 (0-375-70797-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Oprah Book Club® Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?"
The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, remarkably lucid pages. What does it mean to love those people--parents, grandparents, even lovers--who committed the worst atrocities the world has ever known? And is any atonement possible through literature? Schlink's prose is clean and pared down, stripped of unnecessary imagery, dialogue, and excess in any form. What remains is an austerely beautiful narrative of the attempt to breach the gap between Germany's pre- and postwar generations, between the guilty and the innocent, and between words and silence. --R. Ellis [via]
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
by William Shirer

ISBN 1567311636 (1-56731-163-6)
Hardcover, Fine Communications

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Before the Nazies could destroy the files, famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer sifted through the massive self-documentation of the Third Reich, to create a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of mankind--now in a special 30th anniversary edition.
"One of the most important works of history of our time."
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Spandau: The Secret Diaries
by Albert Speer, Richard Winston, Clara Winston

ISBN 1842120514 (1-84212-051-4)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc

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He served as Hitler's architect, the undisputed master of the German war machine, and the one responsible for conscripted foreign labor in the Third Reich. And, when Albert Speer was captured and sentenced at Nuremberg--after becoming the only defendant to plead guilty--he started keeping this secret diary, much of it on toilet paper. After 20 years of imprisonment, he found 25,000 of the smuggled pages waiting for him, and from those entries he shaped this deeply powerful document. "Albert Speer's book is a deeply moving document. It is also of extraordinary political and psychological interest...a must for anyone interested in psychological motivation of political action and the problem of guilt and repentance. But, beyond this it is so fascinatingly written that I could not put it down before I finished it." --Erich Fromm.

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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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This Is Berlin: Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
by William Shirer

ISBN 0879517190 (0-87951-719-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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In the mid-1920s, Iowa farm boy and sometime reporter William L. Shirer came to Paris, intending, like so many of his contemporaries, to become a great expatriate novelist. He found that his talent lay in the realm of fact, however, and for the next decade and a half he covered wars, revolutions, famines, and plagues in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East for a succession of newspapers. His reporting skills landed him a post in Berlin in the mid-1930s, where he was able to see firsthand Adolf Hitler's ascent to power, an experience that illuminated the pages of Shirer's classic, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
"This Is Berlin", a collection of Shirer's radio scripts, crackles with even greater immediacy. It describes, as they were occurring, the great events on which Shirer would reflect in his later book, among them the Nazi annexation of Austria and northwestern Czechoslovakia, the Munich Pact, the German invasion of Poland, and subsequent conquest of much of the rest of Europe. Acting as eyes and ears for his American audience, Shirer provides details that are often absent from standard histories of World War II, among them the viewpoints of the German media and ordinary citizens in the face of crisis. He also delivers revealing tidbits of information in passing, such as his list of the bestselling books in Germany at the start of World War II--at the top of which is Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, followed by the expected anti-British and anti-Soviet screeds. Shirer's reportage makes for fascinating reading, and it provides an important new primary source for historians, as well. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass, Ralph Manheim

ISBN 067972575X (0-679-72575-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Meet Oskar Matzerath, "the eternal three-year-old drummer." On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a striped pullover and patent leather shoes, and clutching his drumsticks and his new tin drum, young Oskar makes an irrevocable decision: "It was then that I declared, resolved, and determined that I would never under any circumstances be a politician, much less a grocer; that I would stop right there, remain as I was--and so I did; for many years I not only stayed the same size but clung to the same attire." Here is a Peter Pan story with a vengeance. But instead of Never-Never Land, Günter Grass gives us Danzig, a contested city on the Polish-German border; instead of Captain Hook and his pirates, we have the Nazis. And in place of Peter himself is Oskar, a twisted puer aeternis with a scream that can shatter glass and a drum rather than a shadow. First published in 1959, The Tin Drum's depiction of the Nazi era created a furor in Germany, for the world of Grass's making is rife with corrupt politicians and brutal grocers in brown shirts:
There was once a grocer who closed his store one day in November, because something was doing in town; taking his son Oskar by the hand, he boarded a Number 5 streetcar and rode to the Langasser Gate, because there as in Zoppot and Langfuhr the synagogue was on fire. The synagogue had almost burned down and the firemen were looking on, taking care that the flames should not spread to other buildings. Outside the wrecked synagogue, men in uniform and others in civilian clothes piled up books, ritual objects, and strange kinds of cloth. The mound was set on fire and the grocer took advantage of the opportunity to warm his fingers and his feelings over the public blaze.
As Oskar grows older (though not taller), portents of war transform into the thing itself. Danzig is the first casualty when, in the summer of 1939, residents turn against each other in a pitched battle between Poles and Germans. In the years that follow, Oskar goes from one picaresque adventure to the next--he joins a troupe of traveling musicians; he becomes the leader of a group of anarchists; he falls in love; he becomes a recording artist--until some time after the war, he is convicted of murder and confined to a mental hospital.
The Tin Drum uses savage comedy and a stiff dose of magical realism to capture not only the madness of war, but also the black cancer at the heart of humanity that allows such degradations to occur. Grass wields his humor like a knife--yes, he'll make you laugh, but he'll make you bleed, as well. There have been many novels written about World War II, but only a handful can truly be called great; The Tin Drum, without a doubt, is one. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The World's Great Classics

ISBN 0717200019 (0-7172-0001-9)
Hardcover, Xs Books

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Odyssey, The: The World's Great Classics, by Homer; tr. by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang [via]
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Berlin: LA Caida 1945
by Antony Beevor

ISBN 8484325989 (84-8432-598-9)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Fausto / Faust
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

ISBN 8437606772 (84-376-0677-2)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones

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Fausto. Provided in Spanish only. [via]
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El Lector/ the Reader
by Schlink Bernhard

ISBN 8433908499 (84-339-0849-9)
Softcover, Distal S R L

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Un adolescente conoce a una mujer madura con la que inicia una relacion amorosa. Antes de acostarse juntos, ella siempre le pide que le lea fragmentos de Goethe, Schiller y otros, hasta que un dia ella desaparece. Siete anos despues, el joven, que estudia derecho, acude al juicio de cinco mujeres acusadas de crimenes nazis y descubre que una de ellas es su antigua amante. Una deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la culpa, el horror y la piedad. / A teenage boy meets an older woman with whom he begins a love affair. Before making love, she always asks him to read him fragments of Goethe, Schiller, Tolstoy and Dickens. The ritual continues until one day she disappears without a trace. Seven years later, the young man, who studies law, is present at the trial of five women accused of Nazi crimes and discovers that one of them is his past lover. This is a dazzling novel about love, blame, horror and mercy. [via]
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El Tambor De Hojalata/the Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass

ISBN 8495501368 (84-95501-36-8)
Softcover, Punto De Lectura

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On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oskar Matzerath, decides to stop growing. The same day he receives his first tin drum, which will be with him as he travels around Europe. He works as an artist's model, enrolls in a troupe of traveling musicians, deals in the black market, and becomes a leader of a group of anarchists. the drum will be the key to all Oskar's memories, even when some time after the war he is confined to a mental institution convicted of a murder he did not commit.
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El día de su tercer cumpleaños es un fecha determinante en la vida de Oscar, el pequeño que no quería crecer. No sólo es el día en que toma la decisión de dejar crecer, sino que recibe su primer tambor de hojalata, objeto que habrá de convertirse en compañero inseparable para el resto de sus días. La crítica mordaz, la ironía despiadada, el espectacular sentido del humor y la libertad creadora con que Günter Grass construye esta obra maestra convierten a "El tambor de hojalata" en uno de los títulos más deatacados de la historia de la literatura. [via]
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Die Blechtrommel
by Günter Grass

ISBN 3423118210 (3-423-11821-0)
Softcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co KG

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Nachdem sich der vor der Gendarmerie flüchtende Brandstifter Joseph Koljaiczekauf einem kaschubischen Kartoffelacker unter den Röcken Anna Bronskis versteckthatte, bringt diese neun Monate später ihre Tochter Agnes zur Welt. Späterheiratet Agnes den arglosen Rheinländer Alfred Matzerath, obwohl sie zugleicheine erotische Beziehung zu ihrem Vetter Jan führt. Ihr Kind Oskar Matzerath,gezeugt von Jan, erblickt 1924 das Licht dieser Welt in Gestalt zweierSechzig-Watt-Glühbirnen. Von Beginn an durchschaut er die Erwachsenenweltund beschließt an seinem dritten Geburtstag, an dem er eine Blechtrommelgeschenkt bekommt, durch einen beabsichtigten Sturz von der Kellertreppesein Wachstum einzustellen. Seine Größe, sein infantiles Benehmen und seineBlechtrommel täuschen über Oskars geistige und körperliche Reife hinweg,früh meldet sich sein sexuelles Begehren. Er erlebt die Machtergreifungder Nationalsozialisten, die Reichskristallnacht und den Kriegsausbruch.Seiner Familie bringt Oskar nur wenig Glück Am Tod seiner Mutter sowieseiner beiden Väter ist er nicht ganz unschuldig. Bei Kriegsende beschließtOskar Matzerath wieder zu wachsen, doch ist dieses Vorhaben nur mäßig erfolgreichZwar wächst er tatsächlich einige Zentimeter, doch drückt sich seine Schuldnun auch äußerlich durch Verwachsungen aus, insbesondere durch einen Buckel.Mit seinem Kindermädchen Maria, der er vermutlich ein Kind geschenkt hat,zieht er nach Düsseldorf, wo er als Jazzschlagzeuger ein reicher Mann wird.Der Ermordung einer Krankenschwester angeklagt, wird er in ein Irrenhauseingeliefert. [via]
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Der Vorlesor
by Berhard Schlink

ISBN 3257229534 (3-257-22953-4)
Softcover, Diogenes Verlag AG

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