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Illuminations

Essays and Reflections

by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...

Translated by Henry Zohn ...

Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

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Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic
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Franz Kafka: The Complete Novels

by Franz Kafka ...

This book contains the complete novels of Franz Kafka in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Trial - The Castle - Amerika ... Read more

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This book contains the complete novels of Franz Kafka in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Trial - The Castle - Amerika
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The Trial: The Original 1925 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Franz Kafka Classics)

by Franz Kafka ...

The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even ... Read more

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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 and published posthumously on 26 April 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of Josef K., a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavily influenced by Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Kafka even
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Thomas Mann's War

Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters

by Tobias Boes ...

In Thomas Mann's War**, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.**Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United ... Read more

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In Thomas Mann's War**, Tobias Boes traces how the acclaimed and bestselling author became one of America's most prominent anti-fascists and the spokesperson for a German cultural ideal that Nazism had perverted.**Thomas Mann, winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize in literature and author of such world-renowned novels as Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain, began his self-imposed exile in the United
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Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka ...

Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year ... Read more

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In no other work does Franz Kafka reveal himself as in Letters to Milena, which begins as a business correspondence but soon develops into a passionate but doomed epistolary love affair. Kafka's Czech translator, Milena Jesenska, was a gifted and charismatic twenty-three-year-old who was uniquely able to recognize Kafka's complex genius and his even more complex character. For the thirty-six-year
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A Most Dangerous Book

Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich

by Christopher B. B. Krebs ...

The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height ... Read more

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The riveting story of the Germania and its incarnations and exploitations through the ages.The pope wanted it, Montesquieu used it, and the Nazis pilfered an Italian noble's villa to get it: the Germania, by the Roman historian Tacitus, took on a life of its own as both an object and an ideology. When Tacitus wrote a not-very-flattering little book about the ancient Germans in 98 CE, at the height
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Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

by Heinrich von Kleist ...

Translated by Peter Wortsman ...

In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the ... Read more

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In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, and fragments move across inner landscapes, exploring the shaky bridges between reason and feeling and the frontiers between the human psyche and the
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The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka ...

Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition. ... Read more

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Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and subsequently struggles to adjust to this new condition.
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The Trial

by Franz Kafka ...

Series series The 100 Greatest Novels of All Time - Starbooks Classics Collection
The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to ... Read more

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The Trial is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed to neither him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never completed, although it does include a chapter which brings the story to
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales

Expanded Edition

by Maria Tatar ...

Series series Princeton Classics
Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary ... Read more

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Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on the disciplinary
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The Emergence of Memory

Conversations with W.G. Sebald

by W.G. Sebald ...

When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching ... Read more

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When German author W. G. Sebald died in a car accident at the age of fifty-seven, the literary world mourned the loss of a writer whose oeuvre it was just beginning to appreciate. Through published interviews with and essays on Sebald, award-winning translator and author Lynne Sharon Schwartz offers a profound portrait of the writer, who has been praised posthumously for his unflinching
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In a Dark Wood Wandering

A Novel of the Middle Ages

by Hella S. Haasse ...

In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history. ... Read more

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In this novel, set in the 15th century during the Hundred Years War between France and England, Hella Haasse brilliantly captures all the drama of one of the great ages of history.
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Chinese Sympathies

Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

by Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...

Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established ... Read more

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Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans—German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular—identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels**.** This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established
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One-Way Street

by Walter Benjamin, Greil Marcus ...

Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...

One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... Read more

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One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental,
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Letters to a Young Poet

by Rainer Maria Rilke ...

Translated by e-artnow ...

Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke, is a timeless literary gem that invites readers into the intimate realm of creativity, art, and personal discovery. Composed between 1902 and 1908, these ten letters were addressed to Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet seeking guidance from the revered Rilke. The resulting correspondences deliver profound insights that transcend time and apply to ... Read more

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Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke, is a timeless literary gem that invites readers into the intimate realm of creativity, art, and personal discovery. Composed between 1902 and 1908, these ten letters were addressed to Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet seeking guidance from the revered Rilke. The resulting correspondences deliver profound insights that transcend time and apply to
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Selected Stories

by Franz Kafka, Mark Harman ...

A Spectator Best Book of the Year“It’s an extremely handsome, well-designed book, and you couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Kafka…If you’ve never read Kafka before or if you already love him, you’ll still want Harman’s Selected Stories.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington PostA superb new translation of Kafka’s classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated.<... ... Read more

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year“It’s an extremely handsome, well-designed book, and you couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Kafka…If you’ve never read Kafka before or if you already love him, you’ll still want Harman’s Selected Stories.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington PostA superb new translation of Kafka’s classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated.<...
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50 Obras Maestras que debes leer antes de morir

Vol.1 (Bauer Classics)

by Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Gustav Meyrink, Solomon Northup, Miguel de Unamuno, Julio Verne, Mariano José de Larra, José de Espronceda, Amado Nervo, Alexander Pushkin, Francisco de Quevedo, Aristóteles, Benito Pérez Galdos, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, Mark Twain, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Jonathan Swift, Giovanni Boccaccio, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sir Walter Scott, Jack London, Sigmund Freud, William Shakespeare, James Fenimore Cooper, Carlo Collodi, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anne Brontë, Charles Baudelaire, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jane Austen, Dante Alighieri, Alexandre Dumas, H.P. Lovecraft, Kahlil Gibran, James Joyce, Bauer Books ...

Series Book 1 - 50 Classics you must read before you die
Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne Brontë<... ... Read more

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Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.La Divina Comedia por Dante AlighieriMetafísica por AristótelesSentido y Sensibiildad por Jane AustenLas Flores del Mal por Charles BaudelaireEl Decamerón por Giovanni BoccaccioAgnes Grey (Español) por Anne Brontë<...
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The Storyteller Essays

by Walter Benjamin ...

Translated by Tess Lewis ...

A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between ... Read more

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A new translation of philosopher Walter Benjamin's work as it pertains to his famous essay, "The Storyteller," this collection includes short stories, book reviews, parables, and as a selection of writings by other authors who had an influence on Benjamin's work.“The Storyteller” is one of Walter Benjamin’s most important essays, a beautiful and suggestive meditation on the relation between
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"Voelkisch" Writers and National Socialism

A Study of Right-Wing Political Culture in Germany, 1890–1960

by Christian Emden, David Robin Midgley, Guy Tourlamain ...

Series Book 21 - Cultural History and Literary Imagination
This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers – in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schäfer, Emil Strauß, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and Rudolf Binding – it examines the continuities in völkisch-nationalist ... Read more

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This book provides a view of literary life under the Nazis, highlighting the ambiguities, rivalries and conflicts that determined the cultural climate of that period and beyond. Focusing on a group of writers – in particular, Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer, Wilhelm Schäfer, Emil Strauß, Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen and Rudolf Binding – it examines the continuities in völkisch-nationalist
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The Struggle with the Daemon

Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche

by Stefan Zweig ...

Translated by Cedar Paul, Eden Paul ...

The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche – powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad ... Read more

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The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche – powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad
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Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

by Ian Penman ...

Series series Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long-awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period "in the spirit" of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands ... Read more

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A kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, and mystery, Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman’s long-awaited first full-length book: a kaleidoscopic study of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Written over a short period "in the spirit" of RWF, who would often get films made in a matter of weeks or months, Thousands
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The Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka ...

in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally ... Read more

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in the end of book include a bonus link to the free audiobook. The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally
... Read more
On Hitler's Mein Kampf

The Poetics of National Socialism

by Albrecht Koschorke ...

Translated by Erik Butler ...

Series Book 2 - Untimely Meditations
An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with ... Read more

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An examination of the narrative strategies employed in the most dangerous book of the twentieth century and a reflection on totalitarian literature.Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with
... Read more
Lyric Orientations

Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community

by Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge ...

Series series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
In Lyric Orientations**, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality.** She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). While Hölderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each ... Read more

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In Lyric Orientations**, Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge explores the power of lyric poetry to stir the social and emotional lives of human beings in the face of the ineffable nature of our mortality.** She focuses on two German-speaking masters of lyric prose and poetry: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). While Hölderlin and Rilke are stylistically very different, each
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