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A collection of studies in German literature presented to John T. Krumpelmann on his retirement from teaching at Louisiana State University in 1962. Essays written in English and German were contributed by friends of Professor Krumpelmann, including...

A regiment of women warriors strides across the battlefield of German culture - on the stage, in the opera house, on the page, and in paintings and prints. These warriors are re-imaginings by men of figures such as the Amazons, the Valkyries, and the...

Craig deals with a question that has always been a point of controversy: do political writers have responsibility and are they obliged to show political engagement in their works? Craig answers this question by studying ten German writers from 1770-1871,...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the allied occupying powers and the nascent German authorities sought Germans whose record during the war and the Nazi period could serve as a counterpoint to the notion of Germans as evil. That search has...

The events of 1989 and German unification were seismic historical moments. Although 1989 appeared to signify a healing of the war-torn history of the twentieth century, unification posed the question of German cultural identity afresh. Politicians,...

This book treats both the literary history of the modern German novel and theoretical considerations about gender and 18th-century narrative strategies. It attempts to overcome a two-fold division in scholarship by treating Christoph Martin Wieland's...

Wolfgang Borchert has been called "the most important voice of post-war German literature." He came to fame literally overnight when his play Draussen vor der Tur (The Man Outside) was broadcast in the British zone of occupied Germany in...

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Whether he's teaching his pet pig to dance, being chased by a mad cow or wrestling a robber, Emil's adventures never stop. Hens, dogs, little sisters - and adults - all flee his path. But Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble - and fun -...

It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But, unkown to them, they are being watched. Each is killed by a single bullet. Soon afterwards, one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues is found murdered. Is this...

Sonny's on the run. Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. He's been lied to his whole life. But then one prisoner's confession changes everything. He knows something about Sonny's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783596124435Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbHPublisher Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

The Reformation and Renaissance, though segregated into distinct disciplines today, interacted and clashed intimately in Faust, the great figure that attained European prominence in the anonymous 1587 Historia von D. Johann Fausten. The original Faust...

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff (1798-1848) remains Germany's foremost female author. Perhaps best known for her novella Die Judenbuche and her ballads, Droste's narrative ability in prose or verse, and her gift for forging highly crafted, often poignant...

This volume provides an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in the period from the death of Goethe in 1832 to the publication of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams in 1899. Although the primary focus is on...

A 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...

An epic tale of love and adventure at sea, this novel is a portrait of a small, eccentric community, a magical evocation of childhood where past meets present and summer becomes winter.Book InformationISBN 9780701169442Author Ib MichaelFormat...

A gripping, evocative and ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum's series. Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438494418Author Kristina MendicinoFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Imagine Smidge's delight when, one day, a little man with a propeller on his back appears hovering at the window! It's Karlson and he lives in a house on the roof. Soon Smidge and Karlson are sharing all sorts of adventures, from tackling thieves and...

Whether he's running his little sister up a flagpole, or trying to escape after getting locked in a shed, Emil's adventures never stop. Hens, dogs, little sisters - and adults - all flee his path. But Emil doesn't mean to be bad, it's just that trouble -...

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Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful men behind this...

After the long, dark winter, Leiv, Narua, Apuluk and Solvi are ready for adventure. They decide to head north with two dogsled teams to see if they can make it across the ice to Helluland (modern Baffin Island). But when a terrible blizzard and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843915447Author Jussi Adler-OlsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 426g

A gripping, evocative and ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum's series. Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police...

Six decades after the defeat of National Socialism, commemoration and mourning are ongoing, open-ended projects in Germany and Austria, and continue to generate a steady stream of literature and film about the Nazi past that, while comparatively modest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357972406Author Knut HamsunFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 277g

This study of German literature in the past hundred years sets its subject clearly in the artistic and political context of developments in Western Europe during the century. It begins with the turn-of-the-century aestheticism and visions of decay led by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322990Author Benedict SchofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Covers the major modernist literary works of Broch and constitutes the first comprehensive introduction in English to his political, cultural, aesthetic, and philosophical writings. Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is best known for his two major...

This first sustained exploration of W.G. Sebald's engagement with Jews and Jewishness provides new insights into controversial tropes and stereotypes in his narrative prose. German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) has been hailed, together with Primo...

A fresh historical perspective on the transformative relationship between sexuality and the arts around 1968 In the late 1960s and early '70s, sexuality and the arts entered into a remarkably intimate and mutually beneficial relationship: on one hand,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781880272Author Catherine SmaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

A striking feature of today's German literature is the survival of an East German subculture characterized by its authors' self-reflexive concern with their own lives, not only in texts labeled as autobiography but also those in the more ambiguous...

Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, Kate Rigby's Topographies of the Sacred is the first book to compare English and German literary models of...

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history. Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530796Author Martin HeideggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Philosophical LibraryPublisher Philosophical LibraryWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm)...

A drama in medieval Dutch that provides the first known example of the play-within-a-play device. The text is based on the chapbook of around 1518. In a remarkable parallel to the Faust chapbook, a young woman enters into an agreement with the devil,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357973779Author Ásgeir Pétursson þOrsteinssonFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 122g