Product Description: By turns ironic and uproarious, The Thirty Years' War is about a soldier who carried on World War II by himself, years after it officially ended. In satirizing war and the making of a war hero, the controversial Finland-Swedish writer Henrik Tikkanen gives many a nod to American culture and the American military...read more

A translation of the national folk epic of Finland which relates Icelandic family sagas and reflects an ancient Finnish peasant life

Product Description: This book traces the cultural and social history of Helsinki during a period in which, as the capital of Russia's semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, it underwent radical changes. The author shows how, from a mercantile and shipping town, Helsinki became the seat of the government and university, the notable city-planner Johan Albrecht Ehrenström and the genius of Karl Ludvig Engel, an architect from Berlin, making it into a Neo-Classical show-piece...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume, contributed by well-known Germanists and those working in the field of comparative literature, take fresh looks at key figures and issues in German literary and cultural studies, from the medieval to the post-modernist period.

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Product Description: During the final decades of the 19th century, a common mind-set emerged among many intellectuals - la decadence. Many novels and novellas of the period were populated with protagonists who were fragile, refined, self-absorbed and preoccupied with a trivially exquisite aesthetic...read more

Product Description: Schildt (1888-1925) is one of Finland-Swedish Literature's major figures, and one of Finland's finest short-story writers. This anthology brings together stories from the different stages of Schildt's career for the first time in English...read more

Product Description: One hundred years ago, Selma Lagerlöf became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. She assured her place in Swedish letters with this sweeping historical epic, her first and best-loved novel, and the basis for the 1924 silent film of the same name that launched Greta Garbo to stardom...read more

Clint Adams gets more than he had bargained for when he agrees to help out an old friend by delivering a cash payment from the local cattleman's association to a Cherokee tribe and must confront a host of enemies out to stop him. Original.