German Books


Letters to a Young Poet Best Price: $2.83 I ordered 11 copies of Letters to a Young Poet for my graduating seniors in my Advanced Art...	Goethe's Faust Best Price: $4.20 This is a classic, and you have to appreciate the classics in their own right. Be patient...	Struwwelpeter in English Translation Best Price: $3.97 I had ordered 2 copies which arrived promptly and in excellent condition. My mom is a native...	Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War Best Price: $12.49 A selective history, interwoven with personal reminisces by the author, of a great European city...	Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Rainer Maria Rilke (Modern Library) Best Price: $10.50 Rilke is just about my favourite poet... a true master. In the German, his verse is just...



The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $7.95 An enthralling German epic that is a fascinating exploration of familiar characters, but are...	The Odyssey (Vintage classics) Best Price: $2.88 The Odyssey will always be a classic of literature, and with good reason. With the intense...	After Nature (Modern Library Paperbacks) Best Price: $7.11 This triptych of three long poems by W.G. Sebald is a jewel-like ornament to his four major...	Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters Best Price: $7.24 There is no reviewing correspondence. There is present either only the (inevitably) voyueristic...	Introduction to German Poetry: A Dual-Language Book Best Price: $3.00 This is a good book just for the nice german poems in it. It is also great for building german...



History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Chronology) Best Price: $18.44 Like Erich von D?niken, the Creationists, and the legion of sensational conspiracy theorists,...	Rudiments of Runelore Best Price: $7.88 This book is not completely without merit but it is not all that good either. The author is not...	Great German Poems of the Romantic Era (Dual-Language) (Dual-Language Book) Best Price: $3.88 The selection of poems is amazing! I have taken German Romanticism class in college and was very...	Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus Best Price: $0.69 "Nonce " doesn't need to wait for another poet to translate Rilke. There are already...	Poems of Paul Celan: A Bilingual German/English Edition, Revised Edition Best Price: $12.28 'you were my death you I could hold when all fell away from me' It may be something of...

Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation Best Price: $6.50 This is the kind of book that rarely appears these days, a meditative cycle of free-form essays...	Hymns to the Night Best Price: $6.43 Five stars for the Hymns; zero stars for the (mis)translation Novalis's *Hymns to the...	Letters on C?zanne Best Price: $6.50 Rilke understands Cezanne as one ' who lived in the innermost center of his work for forty...	Holderlin's Hymn "The Ister" (Studies in Continental Thought) Best Price: $28.00 This is one of the most important of Heidegger's "later" texts that deals with the...	Listen & Enjoy German Poetry (CD Edition) (Listen & Enjoy) Best Price: $7.56 The greatest works of German poetry await with this box set, which features a 50-minute CD and a...

Poems Best Price: $7.45 Poetry by any writer is truly a subjective exerience and you either feel something from the...	Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology Best Price: $13.28 This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael...	Pictures of God: Rilke's Religious Poetry, Including 'The Life of the Virgin Mary' Best Price: $6.50 In recent years many critics have come to admire Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 in Prague,...	Music While Drowning: German Expressionist Poems Best Price: $5.94 This collection of German Expressionist poems is indeed a rare gem......most of the works in it...	Selected Poems and Fragments (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $10.00 I don't have much to say about Holderlin's poetry, which I find a bit stodgy and ungraceful, but...

Elucidations of Holderlin's Poetry (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences) Best Price: $21.94 The philosophy of Martin Heidegger has the poetry of Holderlin as one of its nucleus of...	Letters: Summer 1926 (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $6.50 here we have three great poets. sounds inviting, interesting, wonderful. instead boris writes...	The Heliand: The Saxon Gospel Best Price: $26.99 Christianity has not been as uniform and unchanging as many American evangelicals want to...	Silent Urns: Romanticism, Hellenism, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present) Best Price: $22.92 The study of Greece as an icon of culture appears to be as old as Greece itself, as if, like...	Sonnets to Orpheus: Bilingual Edition Best Price: $8.04 Edward Snow, who has earned multiple awards for his translations, applies his gift to the...

Telegrams of the Soul: Selected Prose of Peter Altenberg Best Price: $6.23 Not well known now, Peter Altenberg has obviously influenced many who followed and read him. His...	Rilke's Book of Hours Excellent condition of the physcial book but writing on many pages of the previous owner's...	Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence Best Price: $83.88 I first read this book several years ago. At the time, I was struck by the depth of passion...	Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 (Goethe (Oxford University Press)) Best Price: $3.75 When Volume I of Nicholas Boyle's biography of Goethe appeared, it received an avalanche of...	Faust: Der Trag?die, Erster Teil und Zweiter Teil Best Price: $0.99 Both parts of Goethe's Faust, in German.

Lightduress (Green Integer) I guess this is the world I live in, where people are more eager to type reviews on...	American Yiddish Poetry: A Bilingual Anthology Best Price: $31.00 This remarkable volume introduces to the large English-speaking audience what is probably the...	Conversations With Eckermann (1823-1832) Best Price: $77.31 Eckerman is dutiful and respectful. And he asks the great man questions about his art and his...	Treasury of German Love: Poems, Quotations & Proverbs : In German and English (Treasury of Love) Best Price: $1.99 I was recently asked to officiate a wedding for a German couple residing in the US, so I dug...	Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume I: The Poetry of Desire (1749-1790) (1749-1790) Best Price: $34.99 This is the first of three volumes; it should go without saying that it is a scholarly...

Grettir's Saga Best Price: $11.35 In the definitive 5-volume COMPLETE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS, Grettir's Saga is situated in the...	Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks Best Price: $34.95 I first came across this when I was...well, the most I shall admit to is that I was a preteen at...	Selected Poems (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 1) Best Price: $14.85 Solid translations and, like all the volumes in Princeton's 12-volume Goethe series, the book is...	Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew (Yale Nota Bene) Best Price: $12.75 Much of Paul Celan's later poetry is hermetic, and acknowledge by many to be impossible to truly...	Duino Elegies Best Price: $8.18 One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with...

Sonnets to Orpheus: Bilingual Edition Best Price: $4.16 Reading in translation always makes me suspicious. I am among the faithful who believe that a...	Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle Best Price: $4.58 Dr. Norton has done the English-speaking world a great service in producing this fine work of...	The Last Lullaby : Poetry from the Holocaust Best Price: $14.33	Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan Best Price: $18.25 Paul Celan stands as one of the most influential and visible poets of the second half of the...	Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger: An Unresolved Conversation, 1951--1970 Best Price: $36.99 This work explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul...

Word Traces: Readings of Paul Celan Best Price: $17.16 Includes the first complete English translation of Jacques Derrida's book-length essay,...	Faust I and II (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von//Goethe's Collected Works) The most important thing all of the reviews fail to note is that Stuart Atkins was one of the...	The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse Best Price: $61.00 The last time my friend from Vilna visited, in 1993, I shared this book with her, purchased a...

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