Product Description: Walter Benjamin's sonnets, written to mourn his friend Fritz Heinle, constitute an important though little-known part of the philosopher's literary achievement and a unique contribution to the history of the German sonnet. Benjamin would add to their number over a decade, having begun his project soon after the outbreak of World War I and the suicide of his friend...read more

Product Description: This fresh translation by Carl Skoggard of philosopher Walter Benjamin's (1892-1940) engaging memoir remains faithful to the author's voice. Readers are offered glimpses of an anonymous Berlin childhood which might have been Benjamin's own, with recollections of an affluent Jewish home in Berlin's West End, circa 1900...read more

Product Description: A companion volume to Walter Benjamin's (1892-1940) memoir Berlin Childhood circa 1900, The "Berlin Chronicle" Notices is now in a new translation by Carl Skoggard. The German-Jewish philosopher, theorist and critic Walter Benjamin began to ruminate on his comfortable Berlin childhood in 1932, not long before he would flee Germany for good to escape the Nazis...read more

A photographic tour of some of the world's most luxuriously designed rooms offers insight into the legendary figures who inspired them and includes coverage of such interiors as India's Falaknuma Palace, Pauline de Rothschild's London residence, and Chatsworth Hall in Derbyshire. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book by von Sachsen-Gotha, Duke August (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)