Product Description: When Goethe's first novel, Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) appeared in 1774, it caused a sensation that is hard to exaggerate. "Werther fever" gripped not just Germany, but Europe and North America, and even Japan and China...read more

Product Description: The split in the Labor Party in the mid 1950's was the culmination of an enormous struggle for the soul of the party, waged by fair means or foul. Locked in bitter ideological dispute were, on the one hand, a small but energetic group of Communists and their sympathizers and, on the other, anti-Communist forces led by B...read more

Product Description: The eighteenth-century movement called Sturm und Drang played a critical role in the development of German literature in general and drama in particular. Lasting from the late 1760s to the early 1780s, it was part of a great national awakening that propelled German culture into European prominence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A complete translation into English of Ludwig Achim von Arnim's four novellas of 1812: "Isabella of Egypt", "Meluck Maria Blainville", "The Three Loving Sisters and the Lucky Dyer", and "Angelika the Genoese and Cosmus the Tightrope-Walker".