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After Midnight by Irmgard Keun
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Depicting a young woman's life in Nazi Germany, a masterpiece from the author of Child of All Nations'I cannot think of anything else that conjures up so powerfully the atmosphere of a nation turned... -
Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Kully knows some things you don't learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you can't enter a... -
After Midnight by Irmgard Keun 9780241747285
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.7490 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksArrested in Cologne for remarking that the Fuhrer looked sweaty, nineteen-year-old Sanna has fled to Frankfurt. But her troubles are far from... -
Gilgi, One of Us by Irmgard Keun
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A brilliant, bestselling feminist novel from Weimar Germany, from the author of Child of All Nations'A formidable literary talent ... Sharp yet naive, Gilgi is utterly human' Irish TimesGilgi knows... -
The Artificial Silk Girl Irmgard Keun 9780241382967
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All Nations Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her... -
The Artificial Silk Girl: A Novel Irmgard Keun 9781635425086
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635425086Author Irmgard KeunFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other... -
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael HofmannFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds... -
A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin)It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a... -
The Land Of Green Plums Herta Müller 9781803513478
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu's reign of terror, The Land of Green Plums tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better... -
The Appointment Herta Müller 9781803513485
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp.' So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she... -
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann 9780241555842
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.03'Spare, chilling, with wild flashes of vivid colour and the tempo of a thriller, Siblings jolts us into the beating heart of a family and post-war East Germany, conjuring the political dreams and... -
The Trial by Franz Kafka 9780241197790
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.04A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to... -
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches 1937-58 by Albert Camus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and... -
The Trouble with Happiness: and Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'So clear is Ditlevsen's eye that it is impossible to tear yourself away' John Self, GuardianAn unforgettable collection of stories from the author of The Copenhagen Trilogy'The most important thing... -
Summer by Edith Wharton
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie... -
The Burrow: Posthumously Published Short Fiction by Franz Kafka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.19A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fictionStrange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this... -
The Trial by Franz Kafka 9780241678893
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.81Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror, with a new introduction and notes by Carolin DuttlingerA terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one... -
Summer by Edith Wharton 9780241422243
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural MassachusettsSeventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her... -
The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works: Introduced by Jon McGregor by Leonid Tsypkin 9780571386918
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31"Everything is always topsy-turvy here," he said.A small town in the Ural mountains is the backdrop to the heartbreak and joys of a Russian-Jewish family, witnessing romance and illness, funerals and... -
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'One of Denmark's most celebrated writers' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of... -
The Wall Jumper by Peter Schneider
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Berlin before the fall of the Wall is a city divided, yet its ordinary residents find ways to live and survive on both sides. There is Robert, teller of barroom anecdotes over beer and vodka,... -
Cities and Literature Malcolm Miles 9781138219533
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines... -
The Art of Taking a Walk: Flanerie, Literature, and Film in Weimar Culture by Anke Gleber
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.19Anke Gleber examines one of the most intriguing and characteristic figures of European urban modernity: the observing city stroller, or flaneur. In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur... -
Ferdinand, the Man with the Kind Heart by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A great writer' Ali SmithNewly translated by Michael Hofmann, the touching final novel from the author of Child of All Nations'I don't think I'm that unusual, and I don't think I'm crazy... -
German Writings Before and After 1945 by Jurgen Peters 9780826414069
Booksplease Price: £43.33This unique collection, concentrating on the years 1938-48, includes the following authors and works: -Ernst Junger, From The First Paris Diary and The Second Paris Diary -Irmgard Keun, From After... -
The Girl at the Orga Privat: A Short Novel from Berlin by Tim Mehigan 9781803745329
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £34.73In the spring of 1928, the coal miner’s daughter Erna Halbe leaves her provincial hometown for Berlin, where she takes an office job. Her new colleagues laugh at her unfashionable clothes and dub her... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9780143105244
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of... -
Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka 9780241436240
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael HofmannKafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect,... -
Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.47'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a... -
German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile 1933-1950: Biographies and Bibliographies by Zlata Fuss Phillips 9783598115691
RRP: £162.50Booksplease Price: £105.98"German Children's and Youth Literature in Exile 1933-1950," contains biographies of 101 authors and illustrators of children's and youth literature as well as bibliographies of the books... -
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Investigations of a Dog by Franz Kafka 9780241339305 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £2.09'If I think about it, and I have the time and inclination and capacity to do so, we dogs are an odd lot.'How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a... -
The Undercurrents by Kirsty Bell
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin's Landwehr canal,... -
Hermynia Zur M"uhlen: The Guises of Socialist Fiction by Ailsa Wallace 9780199572113
Booksplease Price: £85.85This book undertakes a critique of Hermynia Zur Muhlen's prose fiction. It uses her biography and contemporary literature as a context for analysing the content and form of her work, and traces... -
Women in Weimar Fashion: Discourses and Displays in German Culture, 1918-1933 Mila Ganeva (Customer) 9781571135162
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.81New view of the crucial role of fashion discourse and practice in Weimar Germany and its significance for women. In the Weimar Republic, fashion was not only manipulated by the various mass media... -
Messing About in Boats by Michael Hofmann
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £34.28Written by the eminent poet Michael Hofmann, this approachable and companionable book offers readings of four poems on the subject of boats. Based on Michael Hofmann's Clarendon lectures, this... -
Modeling Motherhood in Weimar Germany: Political and Psychological Discourses in Women’s Writing by Dr. Katherine E Calvert 9781640141674
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Reveals how socialist discourses and psychoanalytic ideas shaped the modern models of motherhood envisioned by left-wing and socially critical women writers working in the Weimar press and literary... -
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics.'As... -
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a... -
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada 9780141189383
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a...