Product Description: Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man’s or woman’s slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators...read more

Product Description: Designed for use with the Dover cassette (99915-7), this 66-page manual is complete in itself and can be used independently to learn the basic words, phrases, and sentences. In addition to greetings and other common expressions, it features a wealth of travel-related terms for buying tickets, asking directions, ordering meals, shopping, and sightseeing...read more

Product Description: Using the phrase method advocated by most language authorities as the fastest and most efficient approach, this system for learning German will produce remarkable results, even if the student has never studied a foreign language.Teacher-tested and -approved special features include:Two dual-language CDs, with 90 minutes of recorded speech by native speakers...read more

Product Description: The Neue Merkur, a leading literary and political magazine published in Munich from 1914 to 1916 and from 1919 until 1925, was one of the most influential European journals of its type during the early 1920s. The contributors included such prominent writers and thinkers as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Jakob Wassermann, Alfred Weber, Martin Buber and Bernard Shaw...read more

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