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The Glass Bees
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Captain Richard, a former cavalry officer, faces a crisis of conscience when he accepts a job at the Zapparoni Works, where mechanical bees are produced that are so efficient they threaten ecological destruction
By Louise Bogan (trans), Ernst Junger and Elizabeth Mayer (trans)
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9780940322554 | New York Review of Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $15.95
9780374521738 | Reprint edition (Noonday Pr, May 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Captain Richard, a former cavalry officer, faces a crisis of conscience when he accepts a job at the Zapparoni Works, where mechanical bees are produced that are so efficient they threaten ecological destruction

Selected Works: Including the Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust
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Published in concert with the 250th anniversary of Goethe's birth, this selection of great works from the German writer includes The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust, among others.
By W. H. Auden (trans), Louise Bogan (trans), David Constantine (trans), Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and Elizabeth Mayer (trans)
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9780375410444 | Everymans Library, May 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Contains a brief biography of Goethe, a collection of some of his best-known works, and a sampling of his personal correspondence.

Rock Crystal
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Product Description: Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature" is among the most unusual, moving, and memorable of Christmas stories...read more
By Elizabeth Mayer (trans), Marianne Moore (trans) and Adalbert Stifter
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9781590172858 | New York Review of Books, September 16, 2008, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense.
9781885586117 | Turtle Point Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense.

Letters from Italy
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By W. H. Auden, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and Elizabeth Mayer (trans)
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9780146001987 | Penguin USA, August 1, 1996, cover price $0.95

The Sorrows of Young Werther: And, Novella
A novel explores a young man's fatal love for a married woman, and poems depict an idyllic pastoral society.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and Elizabeth Mayer (contributor)
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9780679600640, titled "The Sorrows of Young Werther and Novella" | Reissue edition (Modern Library, November 1, 1993), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A novel explores a young man's fatal love for a married woman, and poems depict an idyllic pastoral society.
9780394605098, titled "Sorrows of Young Werther & Novella" | 1 edition (Random House Inc, February 1, 1986), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Translations of the novel which brought Goethe early fame, and the short pastoral idyll written four years before his death

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9780679729518 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1990), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version.

Italian Journey {1786-1788}
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Provides coverage for the traveler on accommodations, restaurants, sightseeing, and nightlife
By W. H. Auden (trans) and Elizabeth Mayer (trans)
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9780028626741, titled "Frommer''s 99 Portable New York City" | Frommer, November 1, 1998, cover price $9.95 | also contains Frommer''s 99 Portable New York City | About this edition: Provides coverage for the traveler on accommodations, restaurants, sightseeing, and nightlife
9780140442335 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, December 1, 1992), cover price $18.00

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