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Simplicius Simplicissimus - the towering achievement of H.J.C. von Grimmelshausen, one of the earliest novelists in the German language - charts the adventures of its hero, Simplicius, through the horrors of battle, murder, fire and famine, ...

From helpful elves to an enchanting Nutcracker, rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festive traditions*A Daily Express Book of the Year*Eine froehliche Weihnachten -- A Merry Christmas -- made all the more joyful with these...

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.The gift of a handsomely decorated, enigmatic nutcracker sets the stage...

Stories of Mr. Keuner gathers Bertolt Brecht's fictionalized comments on politics, everyday life, and exile. Written from the late 1920s till the late 1950s, Stories of Mr. Keuner is the precipitate of Brecht's experience of a world in political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of German Book Prize 2002 and Carl Amery Literature Prize 2005 and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2018 and Deutscher Buecher Preis 2002 and Thomas...

"A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMASA contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban...

An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship. We don't exist in this world. Here, we are neither Germans nor refugees, we don't report the news and we aren't the experts. We're some sort of wildcard. Hani, Kasih, and...

In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche conducts his protagonist through his great journey of life - the quest for meaning, and fulfilment, and for a way to live with the knowledge of death. In this faithful new translation by Michael Hulse, Zarathustra is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953861702Author E.T.A. HoffmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913751173Author Richard WagnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Aziloth BooksPublisher Aziloth BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian" (the first was his bestselling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988873037Author Klaus LabuttisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Klaus LabuttisPublisher Klaus LabuttisWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788193443439Author Martiza BratcherFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Hawk PressPublisher Hawk PressWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461181203Author Bettina Von ArnimFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress Ltd

Accurate and entertaining translations of three texts that reveal much about medieval political thought and remain relevant to today's political systems Recent political events around the world, not least January 6, 2021, have shown that political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782384552238Author Stefan ZweigFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Alicia EditionsPublisher Alicia EditionsWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941328583Author Aiken PonderFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Words to Ponder Publishing Company, LLCPublisher Words to Ponder Publishing Company,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798868997051Author Walter the EducatorFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Silent King BooksPublisher Silent King BooksWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still resonate today. Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his...

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First English translation of an unjustly overlooked novel by the great German realist novelist Theodor Fontane. Set in Austria and Hungary in the 1870s, this novel is the story of Count Adam Petoefy, a lifelong bachelor, who at age seventy,...

Effi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Innstetten, travelling to live with him in a provincial town on the remote Baltic coast of Prussia. He is twenty years her senior, an ambitious bureaucrat who is uninterested in his young...

From "the great German-language writer of his generation" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous "Christian" (the first was his bestselling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where...