Showing posts with label German Literature. Show all posts
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Friday, 10 June 2016

Hunting and Gathering By Anna Gavalda


Hunting and Gathering
Title : Hunting and Gathering
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ISBN : 159448144X
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 488




Prize winning author Anna Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with an exquisite genius for storytelling Here, in her epic new novel of intimate lives and filled with the humanity and wit Marie Claire that has made it a bestselling sensation in France Gavalda explores the twists of fate that connect four people in Paris Comprised of a starving artist, her shy, a Prize winning author Anna Gavalda has galvanized the literary world with an exquisite genius for storytelling Here, in her epic new novel of...

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Friday, 25 December 2015

The Way To Babylon By Paul Kearney


The Way To Babylon
Title : The Way To Babylon
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ISBN : 0575055693
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Number of Pages :




Michael Riven a successful author and former soldier has fallen off a mountain Broken in both body and mind, racked with guilt and loss by the death of his wife Jenny, he withdraws into himself in the rural hospital where he painfully recovers His readers are desperate to know what will happen next in the fantasy world of his stories, but neither writing, nor living, a Michael Riven a successful author and former soldier has fallen off a mountain Broken in both body and mind, racked with guilt a...

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Saturday, 5 December 2015

The Tongue Set Free By Elias Canetti


The Tongue Set Free
Title : The Tongue Set Free
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ISBN : 1862073031
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 288




This is the first volume of Elias Canetti s autobiography It provides a searching portrait of Canetti s personal background and creative development as it presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces that shaped the growth of this artist as a young man during his early years in Bulgaria, Manchester, Zurich and Vienna....

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Sunday, 2 November 2014

Old Masters By Thomas Bernhard


Old Masters
Title : Old Masters
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ISBN : 0226043916
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 160




In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher who fears Reger s plans to kill himself gives us a portrait of the musicologist his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love hate relationship with art With characteristically acerbic In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum ...

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Monday, 25 August 2014

The Little Water Sprite By Otfried Preußler


The Little Water Sprite
Title : The Little Water Sprite
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ISBN : 3522174410
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Number of Pages : 123




One spring day a little water sprite was born in a mill pond Like all true water sprites he had webbed hands and green eyes and hair As soon as he could swim he explored the cool green world of the pond, and was even allowed to visit the world outside, as long as he did not let his feet get dry The curious and cheeky little water sprite had lots of advetures both in and One spring day a little water sprite was born in a mill pond Like all true water sprites he had webbed hands and green eyes and...

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Tuesday, 22 July 2014

The Saxon Savior By G. Ronald Murphy


The Saxon Savior
Title : The Saxon Savior
Author :
ISBN : 0195097203
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 144




This study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of the Heliand, the 9th century Saxon epic poem in which the Christian Gospel of the four evangelists is reexpressed in Germanic terms Murphy examines in detail the ingenious and sensitive poetic analogies through which familiar texts the Nativity, the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes and the Lord s Prayer, This study is an interpretation and appreciation of the art of the Heliand, the 9th century Saxon epic poem in which the Christi...

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Saturday, 10 May 2014

The Quest for Christa T. By Christa Wolf


The Quest for Christa T.
Title : The Quest for Christa T.
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ISBN : 0374515344
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 185




When The Quest for Christa T was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm bookshops in East Berlin were given instructions to sell it only to well known customers professionally involved in literary matters at the annual meeting of East German Writers Conference, Mrs Wolf s new book was condemmed Yet the novel has nothing explicitly t When The Quest for Christa T was first published in East Germany ten years ago, there was an immediate storm books...

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Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Puckis erster Schritt ins Leben By Magda Trott


Puckis erster Schritt ins Leben
Title : Puckis erster Schritt ins Leben
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ISBN : 3799642064
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 160




Die Lebensgeschichte eines Kindes hat uns Magda Trott in ihren Pucki B nden mit viel Humor lebenswahr und warmherzig geschildert In bunter Folge ziehen die lustigen und spannenden Erlebnisse der kleinen Pucki an uns vor ber Eine herrliche, ungetr bte Kindheit in einem gl cklichen Elternhaus Wechselvolle Ereignisse f llen dieses Leben von fr hen Kinderlagen ber die Sc Die Lebensgeschichte eines Kindes hat uns Magda Trott in ihren Pucki B nden mit viel Humor lebenswahr und warmherzig geschildert In bunter F...

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The Wall By Marlen Haushofer


The Wall
Title : The Wall
Author :
ISBN : 1573440949
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 240




First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle aged woman who awakens one morning to find that everyone else has vanished Assuming her isolation to be the result of a military experiment gone awry, she begins the terrifying work of survival and self renewal This novel is at once a simple and mo First published to acclaim in Germany, The Wall chronicles the life of the last surviving human on earth, an ordinary middle a...

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Thursday, 26 September 2013

The Prince of Homburg By Heinrich von Kleist


The Prince of Homburg
Title : The Prince of Homburg
Author :
ISBN : 1840022671
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 112




Tell me, please is this a dream The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and goes sleepwalking Moonstruck, his mind races with a young man s fantasies love, ambition and victory But when the morning comes, a single reckless act of disobediance sets in motion a chain of events that leads inexorable to the one th Tell me, please is this a dream The night before he leads his troops into battle, the prince of Homburg strips off his uniform and go...

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Country Path Conversations By Martin Heidegger


Country Path Conversations
Title : Country Path Conversations
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ISBN : 0253354692
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 232




First published in German in 1995, volume 77 of Heidegger s Complete Works consists of three imaginary conversations written as World War II was coming to an end Composed at a crucial moment in history and in Heidegger s own thinking, these conversations present meditations on science and technology the devastation of nature, the war, and evil and the possibility of rel

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Saturday, 3 August 2013

Puckis neue Streiche By Magda Trott


Puckis neue Streiche
Title : Puckis neue Streiche
Author :
ISBN : 3799642056
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 158




Hedi Sandler, das allzeit lustige F rstert chterchen, das die Leser der fr heren Pucki B nde durch manches Jahr in Freud und Leid begleitet haben, ist ein h bsches, f nfzehnj hriges M del geworden Aber aus der kleine Pucki ist zugleich auch ein richtiger Puck geworden, der immer zu berm tigen Streichen und Neckereien aufgelegt ist, ein echter Backfisch mit den berschw n Hedi Sandler, das allzeit lustige F rstert chterchen, das die Leser der fr heren Pucki B nde durch manches Jahr in Freud und Le...

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Wednesday, 19 June 2013

Pucki und ihre Freunde By Magda Trott


Pucki und ihre Freunde
Title : Pucki und ihre Freunde
Author :
ISBN : 379964203X
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 153




Pucki, das fr hliche F rsterkind geht nun schon einige Jahre in die Schule Durch ihre Hilfsbereitschaft und ihren fr hlichen Sinn wird sie schnell der Liebling der Klasse, Sie hat viele Freundinnen, aber auch Harras, der sch ne gro e F rsterhund, und die Tiere des Waldes geh ren zu ihren Freunden Sie ist nun gewi schon mit den Jahren verst ndiger geworden, aber ihr ber Pucki, das fr hliche F rsterkind geht nun schon einige Jahre in die Schule Durch ihre Hilfsbereitschaft und ihren fr hlichen Sinn wird sie...

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Wednesday, 22 May 2013

The Weavers By Gerhart Hauptmann


The Weavers
Title : The Weavers
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ISBN : 0413476308
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 88




No play in the history of theater presents a deeper or lacerating vision of the inhuman nuts and bolts of starvation, from the poetics of paucity to the politics of poverty, than Gerhart Hauptmann s 1892 naturalistic masterpiece The Weavers Based on fact a riot by the horrifically oppressed weavers of Silesia in 1844 the epic script has been saddled with the dubi No play in the history of theater presents a deeper or lacerating vision of the inhuman nuts and bolts of starvation, from the poetics of pauc...

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Sunday, 19 May 2013

La Ronde By Arthur Schnitzler


La Ronde
Title : La Ronde
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ISBN : 0413495302
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 81




Schnitzler explores human sexual behavior in a series of ten vignettes of couples preparing for romantic interludes and assignations....

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Monday, 15 April 2013

Das Buch der Lieder By Heinrich Heine


Das Buch der Lieder
Title : Das Buch der Lieder
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ISBN : 3938484489
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 192




Christian Johann Heinrich Heine 1797 1856 war einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Dichter und Journalisten des 19 Jahrhunderts 1819 nahm Heine ein Jurastudium zun chst in Bonn, sp ter in Berlin, auf W hrend seiner Berliner Zeit deb tierte Heine als Buch Autor Seine ersten Gedichte u a Ein Traum und Mit Rosen ver ffentlichte Heine bereits 1816, in seiner Hamburger

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Friday, 22 March 2013

The Tobacconist By Robert Seethaler


The Tobacconist
Title : The Tobacconist
Author :
ISBN : 1770899650
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 224




Seventeen year old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop There he meets Sigmund Freud, one of the regular customers Over time, an unlikely friendship develops between the two very different men When Franz falls desperately in love with the vaudeville dancer Anezka, he seeks advice from the renowned psychoanalyst, who admi Seventeen year old Franz Huchel leaves his village and journeys to Vienna to apprentice at a tobacco shop There he meets Sigmun...

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