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  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'An indescribable, aching, futile longing for myself' The young Danish aristocrat Malte Laurids Brigge has been left rootless by the early death of his parents. Now living in Paris, Malte begins to record his life in a series of loosely connected notes, diary entries, prose poems, parables and stories, ostensibly collected by a fictional editor to form the Notebooks. Focusing on Malte's ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Rilke

    Edited by Karen Leeder, Robert Vilain ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Often regarded as the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) remains one of the most influential figures of European modernism. In this Companion, leading scholars offer informative and thought-provoking essays on his life and social context, his correspondence, all his major collections of poetry including most famously the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • Erotica Romana (Mobi Classics)

    by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • The Vienna Melody

    by Ernst Lothar ...
    In this epic saga spanning from 1888 to 1938, three generations of an Austrian piano maker's family experience love, tragedy, and history.All Vienna knows that the inhabitant of number 10 Seilerstätte is none other than Christopher Alt, piano maker, the best in Vienna, probably in all of Austria, and possibly the world over. His piano keys have given life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, ... Read more

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  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    A Novel

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Series series Vintage International
    This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century.Malte Laurids Brigge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • You Must Change Your Life

    The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

    by Rachel Corbett ...
    Winner of the 2016 Marfield PrizeIn 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • To Have and to Hold

    An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting

    by Philipp Blom ...
    "This curiously moving history . . . traces the development of collections since the Renaissance through lively portraits of famous collectors." — The New YorkerFrom amassing sacred relics to collecting celebrity memorabilia, the impulse to hoard has gripped humankind throughout the centuries. But what is it that drives people to possess objects that have no conceivable use? To Have and To Hold is ... Read more

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  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Burton Pike ...
    Series series German and Austrian Literature
    First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches.A young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry ... Read more

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  • Balzac

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Balzac by Stefan Zweig (translated from the German by William and Dorothy Rose, with a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and about Stefan Zweig in English by Randolph Klawiter; 150,000 words, 22 illustrations)Zweig devoted ten years of research and writing to Balzac, which he regarded as his crowning achievement. This late work reads like a picaresque novel, with ... Read more

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  • Autumn Leaves

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Elsie Pell ...
    This collection of reflective essays forms a "spiritual autobiography" of André Gide, a key figure of French lettersAndré Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal observations in this collection of essays. Gide's reflections and commentary masterfully showcase his delicate writing style and evocative sensibility, yielding new insights on ... Read more

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  • Goethe: Life as a Work of Art

    by Rüdiger Safranski ...
    Translated by David Dollenmayer ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and Kirkus ReviewsThis “splendid biography” (Wall Street Journal) of Goethe presents his life and work as an essential touchstone for the modern age.A masterful intellectual portrait, Goethe: Life as a Work of Art is celebrated as the seminal twenty-first-century biography of the ... ... Read more

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