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The Complete Stories Best Price: $8.45 The best place to start with Kafka is with his short stories, and here we have all of his... | The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions) Best Price: $7.48 Kafka's writing works at many levels. I am sure almost every school of Literary Criticism makes... | The Post-Office Girl (New York Review Books Classics) Best Price: $7.89 I only review a fraction of the number of books I read, so I don't give this compliment ... | Death in Venice Best Price: $5.97 i literally finished this book in half a day. I could not put it down or get it out of my head.... | The Man Without Qualities Vol. 1: A Sort of Introduction and Pseudo Reality Prevails Best Price: $12.39 This is an unfinished romance which is a kind of no romance. Robert Musil draws our attention... |
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Siddhartha (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $5.99 Siddhartha is both a western and eastern tale. Though it was written by a westerner, it has the... | Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider Best Price: $25.19 I'm at a loss about how to begin a review of the titanic marvel "Joseph and His... | Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life Best Price: $11.97 Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And... | Demian (Perennial Classics) Best Price: $5.98 I received the book in a short amount of time and it was in perfect condition. | The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories Best Price: $6.91 The most poignant moment of Franz Kafka's 1915 novella The Metamorphosis occurs when the... |
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The Man Without Qualities Vol. 2: Into the Millennium, from the Posthumous Papers Best Price: $15.00 Musil's continuation of 'The Man Without Qualities' takes us even deeper into the turn of the... | Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Best Price: $8.08 Some of the other editions are about the same price but only has the Metamorphosis, while this... | Lady Audley's Secret Best Price: $4.99 In Lady Audley's Secret, Sir Michael Audley marries Lucy Graham, a governess. She's a... | Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $14.96 French literature of or about the XIX Century deeply explored the rise of the bourgeoisie over... | Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) Best Price: $0.01 Thomas Mann has taken an ages old theme, the attraction of an older, worn out man for a youthful... |
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Beneath the Wheel Best Price: $3.98 For anyone being crushed and canned within the (mostly) incompetant and self-serving system of... | The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Best Price: $7.69 Information manipulation, secrets and lies and cover-ups all in the name of providing a service... | The Golem (Dedalus European Classics) Best Price: $7.05 I don't know if I've ever enjoyed reading a book this much (different translation) -- certainly... | The Swiss Family Robinson (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $2.49 The Swiss Family Robinson was initially written in German by Swiss author Johann Wyss in 1812,... | Collected Stories (Everyman's Library) Best Price: $11.79 Comparing these translations to other versions, these translations are horrible. With Kafka,... |
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Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared Best Price: $7.89 this book is a delight from beginning to end. it's unfinished, but so are all of kafka's novels... | The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Signet Classics) Best Price: $3.62 Currently I'm taking a class in German, as is being taught by a professor from Germany. When... | Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years Best Price: $4.93 If you're a struggling writer, artist, musician, Thomas Mann is for you. This book is wildly... | Pictor's Metamorphoses: And Other Fantasies Best Price: $3.98 Hesse was an inveterate story writer and this collection is an excellent introduction to his... | The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.52 The introduction claims this is an extraordinary book and it surely is. It does bare some... |
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Death in Rome Best Price: $6.95 Death in Rome is a profound and thought-provoking novel written in the mid-fifties. While set... | The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library) Best Price: $13.56 I don't think I've been this annoyed by a main character since "The Catcher in the... | Henry Von Ofterdingen: A Novel Best Price: $10.74 In my class at college, we had to read this book. The imagery and fairy tale qualities imply... | Death in Venice Best Price: $12.94 A famous German writer, Gustav von Aschenbach, a lonely intellectual, goes to the Lido in Venice... | Three Novellas: THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER, FALLMERAYER THE STATIONMASTER AND THE BUST OF TH (Works of Joseph Roth) Best Price: $2.19 A sumptuous, mordant, and richly pleasing trio of smartly-written short stories from Roth,... |
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Siddhartha (Enriched Classics) Best Price: $2.08 This allegorical novel, set in sixth-century India around the time of the Buddha, follows a... | Youth; Heart of Darkness; The End of the Tether (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.49 Make sure you read the short story "Youth," as well as the "Heart of... | The Angel of the West Window (Dedalus European Classics) Best Price: $12.79 This is a truly fascinating and at times startling account of one man's
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The Casualty (Norton Paperback Fiction) Best Price: $8.95 These 22 short stories by Heinrich B?ll are powerful and moving. Most of the stories are very... | The Golden Pot and Other Tales: A New Translation by Ritchie Robertson (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $4.37 I would like to take a moment to correct a very common misconception about E.T.A. Hoffmann...in... | The Clown (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $65.98 I read this book years ago (on a plane ride) and it has stayed with me as few other books have. ... | Mozart's Journey to Prague and a Selection of Poems (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.25 When I came across this novel (a Penguin Books edition, without the poems) I had no idea that... | The Trial (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $6.00 Kafka depicts a terrifying world, a man lost in a world of utter unintelligibility - it is the... |
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The Trial (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) Best Price: $6.00 Kafka depicts a terrifying world, a man lost in a world of utter unintelligibility - it is the... | Hotel Savoy (Works of Joseph Roth) Best Price: $3.95 Still bearing scars from the gulag, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of... | Siddhartha: A New Translation Best Price: $14.72 On a whim I picked this one up, knowing of it and recognizing the book title. I knew nothing of... | Castle to Castle (French Literature) (French Literature) Best Price: $8.00 Why aren't you reading Louis Ferdinand Celine? Few authors of the 20th century come close to... | The Magic Mountain (Modern Library) At the risk of being labelled a Philistine, I declare that this book is one of the most... |
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The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text it is well written but the whole story made me increasingly tense and anxious, as well it... | The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth Best Price: $10.07 This is a clear and thorough an expose of the fraud perpetrated by Bruno Grosjean Dossekker, who... | Steppenwolf: A Novel Best Price: $4.87 "Ignorance is bliss," goes the old proverb coined by Thomas Gray, and I'd wager... | Eight German Novellas (Oxford World's Classics) This selection features eight Novellen by leading German writers of the nineteenth century.... | German Novellas of Realism, I: Sifter, Droste-Huleshoff, Golthelf, Grillparzer, Morike (German Library) Best Price: $25.47 |
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Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkuhn As Told by a Friend Best Price: $49.99 Thomas Mann's tragic rendering of the myth of Faust is an extraordinarily rich work of artistry... | Understanding Hermann Hesse: The Man, His Myth, His Metaphor (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) | Hyperion Best Price: $5.95 Archipelago Books published Ross Benjamin's new translation of Hyperion in April 2008. Some of... | The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Novella (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 11) Best Price: $13.70 Containing three of Goethe's major prose works, this volume explores a range of themes:... | Rosshalde Best Price: $3.98 Having read most of Herman Hesse's other novels including Demian, Siddhartha, and Magister Ludi,... |
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El Proceso (Clasicos de la literatura series) Best Price: $5.95 For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced... | Scenes of Clerical Life Best Price: $4.95 George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) was born in Warwickshire in 1819. Her father was an estate manager... | The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and the Boy Who Inspired It Best Price: $4.95 Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice" written in 1911 has proven to be one of the... | | |