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  • After Every War

    Twentieth-Century Women Poets

    by Eavan Boland ...
    Series series Facing Pages
    They are nine women with much in common—all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood.After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and ... Read more

    20,66 €

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  • Faust

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s masterpiece of human ambition, morality, and the quest for redemption 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 ... Read more

    1,90 €

  • Languages Fast and Easy ~ German Phrasebook

    by O-O Happiness ...
    The companion to our Languages Fast and Easy ~ German ebook, this Phrasebook provides you with a collection of the most common phrases as well as specialist phrases for when you are at the hotel/ restaurant, travelling and out and about. ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Learn German: Idiomatic Expressions ‒ Everyday Phrases ‒ Proverbs & Sayings

    by Linda Milton ...
    Learn German fast: schnell und einfach Deutsch lernen.As you may already know, German is not an easy-to-learn language. The best way to try to master German is to learn by heart its most popular idiomatic expressions.In this book, you will find the corresponding English version above every German Redewendung. This will help you catch its full meaning in no time.Learn 250 Ge... ... Read more

    19,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

    9,00 €

  • Albert Einstein, The Human Side

    Glimpses from His Archives

    by Albert Einstein ...
    Modesty, humor, compassion, and wisdom are the traits most evident in this illuminating selection of personal papers from the Albert Einstein Archives. The illustrious physicist wrote as thoughtfully to an Ohio fifth-grader, distressed by her discovery that scientists classify humans as animals, as to a Colorado banker who asked whether Einstein believed in a personal God. Witty rhymes, an ... Read more

    16,84 €

  • On Earth and in Hell

    Early Poems

    by Thomas Bernhard ...
    Translated by Peter Waugh ...
    The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth century and often associated with fellow mavericks Beckett, Kafka and Dostoevsky. A master of language, whose body of work was described in a New York Times book review as the most significant literary ... Read more

    7,83 €

  • Duino Elegies

    A New and Complete Translation

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Alfred Corn ...
    A new translation of Rilke’s classic elegies—ten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred.Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten elegies survey the ... Read more

    8,89 €

  • Duino Elegies

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    This bilingual edition offers twenty-first century readers a new opportunity to experience the power of Rilke's enduring masterpiece. Selected by PHILLIP PULLMAN as one of his 40 favourite books: 'For me, the greatest poetry of the 20th century.' MAGMA: 'deserves to become the standard English edition worldwide' POETRY LONDON: 'substantial, powerful and necessary work' TRANSLATION AND LITERATURE: ... Read more

    8,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sonnets to Orpheus

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Martyn Crucefix ...
    Translated by Martyn CrucefixIn 55 sonnets Rainer Maria Rilke plays an astonishingset of philosophical and sensual variations on theOrpheus myth. 'Praising, that's it!' he declares; nature,art, love, time, childhood, technology, poverty, justice -all are encompassed in poems that spark with insightand invention, among the most joyful and light-footedthat Rilke ever wrote.'All poetry resists ... Read more

    8,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vienna's Dreams of Europe

    Culture and Identity Beyond the Nation-State

    by Professor Katherine Arens ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Vienna's Dreams of Europe puts forward a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe since the Enlightenment. For a millennium, Austrian writers have used images of Europe and its hegemonic culture as their political and cultural reference points. Yet in discussions of Europe's nation-states, Austria appears only as an afterthought, no matter that its ... Read more

    32,11 €

  • A Companion to Twentieth-Century German Literature

    Edited by Raymond Furness, Malcolm Humble ...
    Containing entries on over four hundred authors of fiction, poetry and drama from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, this invaluable work of reference presents material of a range and depth that no other book on the subject in English attains. For the second edition, the entries have been updated to include the most recent works of German literature. A number of new entries have been added, dealing ... Read more

    53,44 €