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  • Doctor Faustus

    The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend

    by Thomas Mann, John E. Woods ...
    "John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece." -The New Yorker"Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." -The New RepublicThomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Nobodaddy's Children

    by Arno Schmidt ...
    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    Nobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years and into an apocalyptic future. Scenes from the Life of a Faun recounts the dreary life of a government worker who escapes the banality of war by researching the exploits of a deserter from the Napoleonic Wars nicknamed The Faun. Brand's Heath deals with the chaos of the immediate ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islam

    by Fazlur Rahman ...
    Fazlur Rahman's Islam is aptly titled, in that this slim volume constitutes an incisive and surprisingly comprehensive history and analysis of Islam—its history, its conflicts, its legacy—and its prospects. From Mohammed to the late twentieth century, Rahman traces the development of Islam as a religion and, more importantly, as an intellectual tradition, offering both an easily understood ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Joseph and His Brothers

    The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    This remarkable new translation of the Nobel Prize-winner's great masterpiece is a major literary event.Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. He conceived of the four parts-The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider-as a unified narrative, a "mythological novel" of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Adam and Evelyn

    by Ingo Schulze ...
    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    From one of Germany’s finest writers comes a wonderfully light and humorous novel set during the tumultuous events of 1989. A wobbling Hungary has just opened its borders to Austria enabling a flood of refugees to escape, the Berlin Wall is on the cusp of falling, and, yet, seemingly sheltered from this onrushing new world in their idyllic East German home are Adam, a tailor and dressmaker who ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Execution of Justice

    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    by Friedrich Duerrenmatt ...
    Series Book 22 - Pushkin Vertigo
    A captivating neo-noir classic from one of the masters of the genreA respected professor is dead—shot in a crowded Zurich restaurant, in front of dozens of witnesses. The murderer calmly turned himself in to the police. So why has he now hired a lawyer to clear his name? And why has he chosen the drink-soaked, disreputable Spät to defend him?As he investigates, Spät finds himself obsessed, drawn ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One More Story

    by Ingo Schulze ...
    Translated by John E. Woods ...
    “A literary event” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): thirteen new stories from one of Germany’s finest writers.New Year’s Eve 1999, Berlin. At a party to kick off the twenty-first century, Frank Reichert meets Julia, his lost love. Since their separation in the fall of 1989, he’s drifted through life like an exile, remaining apathetic toward the copy-shop business he started even as it flourishes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Perfume

    The Story of a Murderer

    by Patrick Süskind ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours

    In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Good Man of Nanking

    The Diaries of John Rabe

    by John Rabe ...
    Narrated by Anna Fields ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an “International ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Rape of Nanking

    The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

    by Iris Chang ...
    Narrated by Anna Fields ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 4 min

    In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Authentic French Noir Box Set

    Bird in a Cage, Crush, The Executioner Weeps, The Gravedigger's Bread

    by Frédéric Dard ...
    Translated by Daniel Seton, David Coward, Frank Wynne, David Bellos ...
    Series series Pushkin Vertigo
    Now available in one collection, four classic crime thrillers from the award-winning “French master of noir” (Observer)Unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage melds existentialist drama with thrilling noir to tell the story of a man trapped in a prison of his own making. Crush is a chilling 1950s suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession—and the slippery slope to murder. The ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Death in Paris

    A Death in Paris Mystery

    by Emilia Bernhard ...
    Series Book 1 - A Death in Paris Mystery
    **A charming series debut featuring two American sleuths in Paris, this traditional mystery is perfect for fans of M. L. Longworth and Juliet BlackwellThe only thing chillier than a Parisian winter is cold-blooded murder.**When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? ... Read more

    $14.99 USD