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  • Late Fame

    by Arthur Schnitzler, Wilhelm Hemecker, David Osterie ...
    Translated by Alexander Starritt ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    A hilarious takedown of celebrity and false genius, never before available in the US.An NYRB Classics OriginalEduard Saxberger is a quiet man who is getting on in years and has spent the better part of them working at a desk in an office. Once upon a time, however, he published a book of poetry, Wanderings, and one day when he returns from his usual walk he finds a young man waiting for him. “Are ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Complete Works of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    The Complete works of Franz Kafka with active table of content for easy navigation through all of his great works. ... Read more

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  • The Complete Stories

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial.“An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times* ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice and Other Stories

    by Thomas Mann ...
    The celebrated author, Gustave Aschenbach, burdened by his successes, comes to Venice for a holiday and encounters a vision of eros -- a vision for which he pays with his life. Death in Venice, Thomas Mann's intensely moving elegy for a man trapped between myth and modernity, was written at the peak of his powers. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Berlin Stories

    by Christopher Isherwood ...
    A classic of 20th-century fiction, The Berlin Stories inspired the Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film Cabaret.First published in the 1930s, The Berlin Stories contains two astonishing related novels, The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin, which are recognized today as classics of modern fiction. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Diaries, 1910-1923

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a look into Kafka’s accounts of his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Crazy in Berlin

    A Novel

    by Thomas Berger ...
    Series Book 1 - Carlo Reinhart
    Thomas Berger's debut novel of a young man tumultuously coming of age in postwar GermanyCarlo Reinhart, a young American army medic stationed in Germany, confronts a disturbing new world following the end of World War II. Living in Berlin, a city fractured into barricaded sectors by the occupying powers, Reinhart begins to drive himself mad with memories of the evils he has witnessed and questions ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jakob von Gunten

    by Robert Walser ...
    Translated by Christopher Middleton ...
    The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Letters and Papers from Prison

    by Dietrich Bonhoeffer ...
    One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a young German pastor who was executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his part in the “officers’ plot” to assassinate Adolf Hitler.This expanded version of Letters and Papers from Prison shifts the emphasis ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Diaries of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times**An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Confusions of Young Törless

    by Robert Musil, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate' Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Törless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Not I

    Memoirs of a German Childhood

    by Joachim C. Fest ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year, a portrait of an intellectually rigorous German household opposed to the Nazis and how its members suffered for their political stance.Few writers have deepened our understanding of the Third Reich as much as German historian, biographer, journalist, and critic Joachim Fest. His biography of Adolf Hitler has reached millions of readers around ... Read more

    $10.99 USD