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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060956547Author Rainer RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 159g

Weltschmerz 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,...

Apologies 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...

Afrika and Alemania explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinematic texts across two centuries. By examining how different groups of women with access to German culture have depicted Africa, Africans,...

Afrika and Alemania explores the representation of Blackness in German-speaking literary, autobiographical, and cinematic texts across two centuries. By examining how different groups of women with access to German culture have depicted Africa, Africans,...

The book provides a sentence-by-sentence translation of Die Judenbuche (1842) by Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, arguably one of Germany's greatest female poets. Often thought of as a detective novel, The Jews' Beech Tree is as much a mystery to read today...

The concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647254001Author Makayla BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 319Imprint NY Research PressPublisher NY Research PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

The concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Soviet Union under Stalin, are not nationalistic but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780374182212Author Jonathan FranzenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Farrar,...

Originally published in 1965, this study examines the concealed meanings in the second part of Faust, often considered obscure. It is of value not only to students of literature but also comparative religions, as it deals with Goethe's knowledge of...

Originally 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...

Originally 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...

Georg 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...

Originally published in 1977, this volume gives a co-hesive overview of Franco-German literary relationships between 1770 and 1895. It discerns the dynamics and outlines the structure of the interrelationship. The two literatures develop in a broadly...

Originally published in 1971, this book outlines the period of Germany's belated industrial revolution and suggests why German literature does not, before the 1880s, contribute to the tradition of European realism. It considers the alternatives to...

New 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, the...

An 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679722014Author Rainer Maria RilkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781630514105Author Stephen WilkersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

Originally 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...

Originally 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...

Time matters to all of us. It dominates everyday discourse: diaries, schedules, clocks, working hours, opening times, appointments, weekdays and weekends, national holidays, religious festivals, birthdays, and anniversaries. But how do we, as unique...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789974904Author David N. CouryFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935902546Author Eva C SchweitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint BerlinicaPublisher BerlinicaWeight(grams) 358g

This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales. Focusing on the Germanic folktale, the author investigates how retelling and reinterpreting fairy tales in online fan fiction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789976816Author Barbara HalesFormat PaperbackImprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International Academic...

Written against a background of the Thirty Years' War and firstpublished in 1669, this renowned picaresque classic recounts withwonderful biting satire the vagabond adventures of a not-so-simplesimpleton during one of Europe'sfiercest, yet ultimately...

Der vorliegende Band vereint Forschungsbeiträge der 8. Konferenz der Internationalen Feuchtwanger-Gesellschaft, die im Herbst 2017 im Heinrich Heine Haus in Paris zum Thema «Frankreich als Gastland der deutschsprachigen, insbesondere der...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977593347Author Greg FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint QuidzuncPublisher QuidzuncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291050Author Flora KimmichFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008917774Author Franz KafkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881459623Author Gotthold Ephraim LessingFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787246638Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Big NestPublisher Big NestWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646792030Author Johann Wolfgang VonFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783616802305Author S Sherman GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Faizi NaveedPublisher Faizi NaveedWeight(grams) 345g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013291043Author Flora KimmichFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357099660Author James FarrerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789584673664Author Guillermo Sanchez TrujilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint 978-958-46-7366-4Publisher 978-958-46-7366-4Weight(grams) 308g