Product Description: Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of sketches, depicting the last months of World War II and the first year of the subsequent British occupation of Austria...read more

Product Description: Contents include: Leopold Federmair, Das himmlische Kind. Entwicklungspsychologie und Elektrizitat in Stifters 'Abdias', mit Blick auf das autobiographische Fragment 'Mein Leben'; Patricia Howe, Heine and the Realists, Theodor Fontane and William Dean Howells; Florian Gelzer, "Ein einziges groaes Experiment"...read more

According to the London Sunday Express, Ruth Rendell is "one of the best novelists writing today." For readers new to her work, this collection of five mysteries, all cases for Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, is a perfect introduction. In Wexford, Rendell has created a rare and endearing character. Like all memorable and remarkable individuals, Wexford is a man of great intuitive power. His best performances are flashes of insight, solutions that seem more inspired by instinct than intellect. "Rendell has a taste, a gift for the macabre. One never puts down one of her books without feeling chilled to the bone." (Daily Express)

Product Description: Inhalt: Angus NICHOLLS: The Hermeneutics of Scientific Language in Goethe's Critique of Newton; Matjaz BIRK: Werther. Corinne ou l'Italie. Illyria Rediviva. Fallbeispiel literarischer Wechselbeziehungen in der napoleonischen Zeit; Christian DAWIDOWSKI: "Triumph der Mobelpoesie...read more