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Short Stories in German: New Penguin Parallel Texts by Ernst Zillekens
RRP: £10.99£7.77This new volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature in the original, with the aid of parallel translations.The majority of these stories have been written in the... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm 9780691173221
RRP: £17.99£15.18When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £9.99£7.11Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £15.99£8.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806861Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Selected Poems by Deceased Bertolt Brecht 9780156806466
RRP: £20.00£14.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156806466Author Deceased Bertolt BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 140mm... -
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller 9780141396965
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as 'the... -
Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
RRP: £14.99£10.95Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily... -
Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke 9781857157307
RRP: £12.00£8.44Though as yet little known in English-speaking countries, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is the finest German poet of this century and one of the greatest lyrical writers in the history of Western literature. A major figure in the modernist movement,... -
The Essential Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 9780691181042
RRP: £25.00£19.18The most comprehensive one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in EnglishThe Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides... -
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by G. W. F. Hegel
£11.24No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects - despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the... -
Letters to a Young Poet: The Norton Centenary Edition by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £16.99£12.96These letters from the poet and mystic Rainer Maria Rilke to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet have inspired millions of readers since they were first published in English in 1934. The first and most popular translator of this work was Mary... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger 9780231127417
RRP: £22.00£17.39Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he... -
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by Richard Newnham
RRP: £10.99£7.77Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic. With the original German text... -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm 9780691160597
RRP: £35.00£25.97When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the... -
Selected Writings by Alexander von Humboldt
RRP: £15.00£11.36Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing volcanoes in the Andes, swimming with crocodiles, racing through anthrax-infected Siberia, or... -
Parallel Text: German Short Stories: Deutsche Kurzgeschichten by David Constantine
RRP: £10.99£7.77The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting... -
Heroic Legends of the North: An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles by Edward R. Haymes
RRP: £29.99£26.64Originally published in 1996, this book is a study of two of the central themes of medieval German mythology, the Dietrich and Nibelung legends. It traces its two legendary topics form their historical roots during the last centuries of the Roman Empire... -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781839982095
RRP: £25.00£23.30This new edition of Wittgenstein's book, strictly following the author's recommendations, allows a more immediate comprehension of the text and dissolves several false problems that had deceived readers and scholars for a century. The faithful... -
Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Aspiring to Become One by Walter Serner 9788086264455
RRP: £15.00£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788086264455Author Walter SernerFormat HardbackPage Count 189Imprint Twisted Spoon PressPublisher Twisted Spoon PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 190mm... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780393310399
RRP: £9.99£7.93Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young... -
Time Heals No Wounds by Hendrik Falkenberg 9781503933477
£9.83Freshly trained detective Johannes "Hannes" Niehaus is brand-new to the Criminal Investigation Department. And his partner, unconventional veteran detective Fritz Janssen, isn't the least bit thrilled to train a rookie. When a woman's body washes up... -
Where the Desert Meets the Sea by Werner Sonne 9781542043915
RRP: £8.99£6.13An illuminating and heart-stirring historical novel set in post-WWII Palestine, where the boundaries of love and friendship are challenged by the intractable conflicts of war. Jerusalem, 1947: Judith, a young Jewish survivor of the Dachau... -
The Nibelungenlied: With the Klage by William T. Whobrey 9781624666759
RRP: £16.99£13.81Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge-yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character-the Nibelungenlied is the greatest and most unique epic in Middle High German. The Klage, its consistent companion... -
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright by Yoko Tawada 9780776608037
£12.37Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko... -
Weltschmerz: Pessimism in German Philosophy, 1860-1900 by Frederick C. Beiser
RRP: £27.49£24.68Weltschmerz is a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy in the second half of the nineteenth century. Pessimism was essentially the theory that life is not worth living. This theory was introduced into German philosophy by Schopenhauer,... -
A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941-1945 by Ernst Junger
RRP: £35.00£28.21Ernst Junger was one of twentieth-century Germany's most important-and most controversial-writers. Decorated for bravery in World War I and the author of the acclaimed western front memoir Storm of Steel, he frankly depicted war's horrors even as he... -
Letters to a Young Poet: With the Letters to Rilke from the ''Young Poet'' by Rainer Maria Rilke
RRP: £13.99£11.52For more than ninety years, eager writers and young poets, even those simply looking for a purpose in life, have embraced the wisdom of Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Most readers and scholars assumed that the... -
Selected Essays by Friedrich Durrenmatt
RRP: £11.99£9.23Friedrich Durrenmatt was one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century, a talent on par with Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Bertolt Brecht. A prolific writer of letters, poems, novels, and shorter fictions, his... -
Georg Simmel: Essays on Art and Aesthetics by Georg Simmel
RRP: £31.00£30.59Georg Simmel is one of the most original German thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered a founding architect of the modern discipline of sociology. Ranging over fundamental questions of the relationship of self and society, his influential... -
The Land Without Death: (The Amazonas Trilogy) by Alfred Doblin
RRP: £16.99£12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916825Author Alfred DoblinFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 51mm -
Drafts for a Third Sketchbook by Max Frisch
RRP: £16.00£14.19New York...I HATE IT...I LOVE IT...I DON'T KNOW...". These are the reflections of Max Frisch, writing from his apartment in the Big Apple near the end of the twentieth century. Beginning in 1946 and continuing until his death at the age of eighty,... -
Goethe's Conversations With Eckermann; 201 by Johann Wolfgang Von 1749-1832 Goethe 9781014561916
RRP: £15.95£14.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014561916Author Johann Wolfgang Von 1749-1832 GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 9780143107149
RRP: £18.00£13.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107149Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 193mm... -
Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 9780872203549
RRP: £12.99£10.79Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche's mature ideas, including his attack on Plato's Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche's... -
The Disinherited Mind; Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought by Erich 1911- Heller 9781014607461
RRP: £20.95£17.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014607461Author Erich 1911- HellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Goethe's Faust by John R. Williams
RRP: £29.99£26.64Originally published in 1987, this is a thorough and lucid introduction and commentary to the whole of Goethe's Faust. It gives the student of German and European literature valuable insights into the most important work of Germany's foremost poet... -
The Trial rediscovered by Guillermo Sanchez Trujillo 9789584673664
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Men Around The Kaiser: The Makers Of Modern Germany by Frederic William Wile 9781498039062
£36.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German with an Infusion of English by Samuel S Haldeman 9781498178396
£22.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Casanova's Homecoming by Edden and Cedar Paul 9781535265720
RRP: £9.90£8.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.