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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 3: 1935-1938 by Walter Benjamin 9780674019812
RRP: $37.35$33.48Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant... -
A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot by B. C. Southam 9780571170821
RRP: $16.76$11.73This is the sixth, revised and enlarged edition of this well established Guide. It is designed to help the reader of Eliot's Selected Poems by identifying and explaining the wide and often baffling range of quotations, allusions and references: literary,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka by Carolin Duttlinger
RRP: $25.79$17.20Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a... -
The Wanderer's Havamal by Jackson Crawford 9781624668425
RRP: $36.11$29.14The Wanderer's Havamal features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Havamal, newly annotated for this volume, together with facing original Old Norse text sourced directly from the Codex Regius... -
Rereading East Germany: The Literature and Film of the GDR by Karen Leeder
RRP: $39.98$29.48This volume is the first to address the culture of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as a historical entity, but also to trace the afterlife of East Germany in the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall. An international team of outstanding... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford 9781624666339 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$13.27From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
The Saga of the Volsungs: with The Saga of Ragnar Lothbrok by Jackson Crawford
RRP: $21.92$19.22From the translator of the bestselling Poetic Edda (Hackett, 2015) comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and... -
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 9780811200684
RRP: $11.60$8.69Here the spirituality of the East and the West have met in a novel that enfigures deep human wisdom with a rich and colorful imagination. Written in a prose of almost biblical simplicity and beauty, it is the story of a soul's long quest in search of he... -
Pierced by Thomas Enger 9780571272464 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter, Henning Juul, is contacted by Pulli, who claims that if... -
Pierced by Thomas Enger
RRP: $14.18$9.44A Convicted Killer: Despite always maintaining his innocence, Tori Pulli, once a powerful player on Oslo's underground crime scene, has been found guilty of murder. A Loose End: Scarred reporter, Henning Juul, is contacted by Pulli, who claims that if... -
Herta Muller by Brigid Haines 9780199654642
$145.22This volume is a critical companion to the works of Herta Muller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009. Muller (1953-) is a Romanian-German novelist, essayist and producer of collages whose work has been compared with that of W.G. Sebald and... -
The Philosophical Foundations of Early German Romanticism by Manfred Frank
$37.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791459485Author Manfred FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus by Daniel Polikoff 9781888602524
$46.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888602524Author Daniel PolikoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 1g -
Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination by Michael McGillen 9781501772825
RRP: $33.53$29.01Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates efforts in German modernism to conceive of alternative shapes of time-beyond those of historicism and... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: $43.80$36.65A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,... -
Berlin Childhood around 1900 by Walter Benjamin 9780674022225
RRP: $24.45$19.83Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his "large-scale defeats." Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the... -
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 9780435121464
$20.25Little Albert Kropp; Muller who still carries his schoolbooks; Leer, with an eye for the girls and Paul Baumer missed by his sick mother-these are four classmates who have volunteered for the German army in 1914, with youthful optimism. This is the... -
Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises by Pierre Hadot
RRP: $25.80$21.90The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre Hadot explores Goethe's relationship with ancient spiritual... -
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power, Germany 1918 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: $16.76$11.04At the end of the First World War in Germany, the journalist and theatre critic Kurt Eisner organised a revolution which overthrew the monarchy, and declared a Free State of Bavaria. In February 1919, he was assassinated, and the revolution failed. ... -
Kafka's Other Trial by Elias Canetti
RRP: $12.89$9.17In July 1914, Franz Kafka's fiancee Felice broke off their engagement in a humiliating public tribunal, surrounded by her friends and family, and the other woman with whom Kafka had recently fallen in love. Broken and bereft, Kafka - at the height of his... -
Goethe and His Age by Georg Lukacs 9780850360714
RRP: $19.29$15.92Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850360714Author Georg LukacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780385031141
RRP: $16.76$12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385031141Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Cambridge Introduction to German Poetry by Judith Ryan 9780521687201
RRP: $29.66$25.23German poetry has long held a special place within the Western literary tradition. Its major achievements include Luther's hymns, Goethe's unequalled poetic versatility, the Romantics' lyric songs and the challenging poetry of Hoelderlin, Rilke and Celan... -
Tonio Kroger/Mario und der Zauberer by Thomas Mann 9783596213818 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.55$2.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783596213818Author Thomas MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbHPublisher Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH -
Moominpappa's Book of Thoughts by Sami Malila
RRP: $7.73$5.48Moominpappa's Book of Thoughts is a collection of philosophical anecdotes and other profound insights from the most senior Moomin, providing readers with an essential roadmap on how to go about life. During his long and eventful life, Moominpappa has... -
One-Way Street by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $20.58$16.90One-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... -
'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls Saga by William Ian Miller
$57.74Nijals saga the greatest of the sagas of the Icelanders, was written around 1280. It tells the story of a complex feud, that starts innocently enough in a tiff over seating arrangement at a local feast, and expands over the course of 20 years to engulf... -
The Poetic Edda by Henry Adams Bellows 9780486437101
RRP: $12.89$8.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437101Author Henry Adams BellowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Thomas Mann: A Biography by Ronald Hayman 9780747529460
RRP: $32.25$15.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608
RRP: $34.83$34.15Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously... -
Vienna a Cultural and Literary History by Nicholas T. Parsons 9781904955450
RRP: $19.35$17.61From border garrison of the Roman Empire to magnificent Baroque seat of the Habsburgs, Vienna's fortunes swung between survival and expansion. By the late nineteenth century it had become the western capital of the sprawling Austro-Hungarian Monarchy,... -
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
RRP: $15.47$10.87Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath... -
W. G. Sebald Uwe Schutte 9780746312995
RRP: $29.66$26.73W. G. Sebald was a literary phenomenon: a German literary scholar working in England, who took up creative writing out of dissatisfaction with German post-war letters. Within only a few years, his unique prose books made him one of the most celebrated... -
Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a... -
The Troll Inside You: Paranormal Activity in the Medieval North by Armann Jakobsson 9781947447004
RRP: $28.38$21.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447004Author Armann JakobssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm... -
Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas - An Annotated German-Language Reader by Henk de Berg
RRP: $42.56$38.22The first book that presents key original texts from the modern German philosophical tradition to English-language students and scholars of German, with introductions, commentaries, and annotations that make them accessible. German-language... -
Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Romantic by Joanna Raisbeck 9781839540257
RRP: $122.55$115.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839540257Author Joanna RaisbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 16mm -
Peeling the Onion by Gunter Grass 9780099507598
RRP: $20.63$14.98Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris.It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one... -
Dictator Literature: A History of Bad Books by Terrible People by Daniel Kalder
RRP: $14.18$10.02A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times 'The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in... -
Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke 9780679642329
RRP: $18.05$11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679642329Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...