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  • Verse Plays and Epic

    The Collected Works of Goethe, Volume 8

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Michael Hamburger, Hunter Hannum, David Luke ...
    Five enduring works that demonstrate Goethe’s mastery of poetic form and engagement with neoclassical idealsThis volume presents the four plays and the narrative poem that, along with Faust, established Goethe as one of the masters of European verse drama and epic. These timeless works display a balance between poetic form and ethical sensibility that characterizes much of Goethe’s work during the ... Read more

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  • Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays

    The Collected Works of Goethe, Volume 7

    Translated by Cyrus Hamlin, Frank Ryder, Robert M. Browning, Michael Hamburger ...
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Eight early plays by Goethe that revolutionized German dramaGoethe’s early plays bear witness to his urgent desire to enliven German theater, an ambition that followed him to the National Theater in Weimar, where he was named director in the early 1790s. Early Verse Drama and Prose Plays brings together eight of these plays, written between 1771 and 1787. Not only do they demonstrate Goethe’s ... Read more

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  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Michael Hamburger ...
    Set against the strikingly beautiful backdrop of the Vosges mountains, Lenz tells the tale of the real-life writer J.M.R. Lenz's nineteen-day stay in Waldersbach in 1778, describing his wanderings around the mountainous surroundings and his worsening fits of madness, eventually culminating in his removal, under guard, to Strasbourg.Valued both as a chillingly convincing exploration of the reality ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Reason and Energy

    Studies in German Literature

    by Michael Hamburger ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: German Literature
    Originally published in 1957, this volume brings together a collection of essays and hard to source translations on both well and lesser known German writers and poets, including Hölderlin, Benn, Mann and Nietzsche. The essays are linked by a consideration of the tension between the desire for what Thomas Mann called ‘the miracle of ingeniousness regained’ and the constrains of reason. The book ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Truth of Poetry

    Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the 1960s

    by Michael Hamburger ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982, The Truth of Poetry attempts to answer a seemingly simple question: What kind of truth does poetry offer in modern times? Michael Hamburger’s answer to this question ranges over the last century of European and American poetry, and the result is a phenomenology of modern poetry rather than a history of appreciations of individual poets. Stressing the tensions and conflicts ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 1

    Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett, Jean Benedetti, Ernest Borneman, Richard Grunberger, Michael Hamburger, Gerhard Nellhaus, Peter Tegel, Eva Geiser0 ...
    Series Book 1 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Brecht Collected Plays: 2

    Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins

    by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Ralph Manheim ...
    Translated by John Willett, Ralph Manheim, Gerhard Nellhaus, Chester Kallman, W. H. Auden ...
    Series Book 2 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 3

    Lindbergh's Flight; The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent; He Said Yes/He Said No; The Decision; The Mother; The Exception & the Rule; The Horatians & the Curiatians; St Joan of the Stockyards

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by John Willett, Geoffrey Skelton, H. R. Hays, Arthur Waley, Tom Osborn, Ralph Manheim ...
    Series Book 3 - World Classics
    The most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English languageVolume Three of Brecht's Collected Plays includes St Joan of the Stockyards - a play which recasts St Joan as Joan Dark springing hope into the hearts of factory workers at the mercy of meatpacker king Pierpont Mauler threatening cuts in the Depression; and the Lehrstücke or short 'didactic' pieces written ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Brecht Collected Plays: 4

    Round Heads & Pointed Heads; Fear & Misery of the Third Reich; Senora Carrar's Rifles; Trial of Lucullus; Dansen; How Much Is Your Iron?

    by Bertolt Brecht ...
    Translated by Tom Kuhn, John Willett, H. R. Hays, Martin Kastner, Rose Kastner, Wolfgang Sauerlander ...
    Series Book 4 - World Classics
    Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930sVolume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Faust I & II

    by Stuart Atkins, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man’s pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goethe’s own moral and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Complete Works Of Edgar Allen Poe

    by Edgar Allen Poe ...
    The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dante's Inferno

    In Modern English

    by Douglas Neff, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with modern language adaptation by Douglas Neff ...
    Most English translations of INFERNO are full of colorful, but meaningless language based on today's modern standards. Some translations are so elaborate that they are as difficult to read as the original Italian version. This translation uses the Longfellow translation as a base, but replaces the obscure or antiquated verbiage with the language of Modern English. This translation could easily be ... Read more

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