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The Collected Stories

By Heinrich Boll, Breon Mitchell (trans) and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9781612190020 | New edition (Melville Pub House, December 27, 2011), cover price $29.95

The Clown

Product Description: Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards...read more

By Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9781935554172 | Melville Pub House, December 28, 2010, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church.

Miscellaneous:

9781935554851 | Melville Pub House, December 15, 2010, cover price $16.95

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Product Description: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead was written by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's most prolific postwar writers. Although Boll insisted that his characters were compositions and not psychological creations, they do have psychological reality...read more

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz

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9781560004639 | Large print edition (Transaction Pub Large Print, September 1, 2000), cover price $40.95 | About this edition: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead was written by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's most prolific postwar writers.

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9781412812764 | Transaction Pub Large Print, April 30, 2000, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead was written by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's most prolific postwar writers.

The Invention of Curried Sausage

Product Description: An ingenious, revealing, and charming tale about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food by a woman who met, seduced, and held captive a deserter in April, 1945, just before the war's end.The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food...read more

By Uwe Timm and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9780811212977 | New Directions, May 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Seeking to prove that curried sausages, a popular sidewalk food, were invented in Hamburg, the narrator tracks down Lena Brucker, the supposed inventor, and hears her life story

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9780811213684 | Reprint edition (New Directions, October 1, 1997), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An ingenious, revealing, and charming tale about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food by a woman who met, seduced, and held captive a deserter in April, 1945, just before the war's end.

The Stories of Heinrich Boll

A collection of stories--fifteen of them previously untranslated--and novellas from the internationally acclaimed author chronicles the bitter comedy of the postwar twentieth century

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz

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9780394514055 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1986, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A collection of stories--fifteen of them previously untranslated--and novellas from the internationally acclaimed author chronicles the bitter comedy of the postwar twentieth century

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9780810112070 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 27, 1995, cover price $26.95

9780070064225 | McGraw-Hill, May 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A collection of stories--fifteen of them previously untranslated--and novellas from the internationally acclaimed author chronicles the bitter comedy of the postwar twentieth century

Missing Persons and Other Essays

Book by Boll, Heinrich

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz

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9780810111776 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $52.95

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9780810111622 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Book by Boll, Heinrich

The Bread of Those Early Years

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz

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9780810111783 | Northwestern Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $46.95

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9780810111639 | Northwestern Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $13.00

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9780143105404, titled "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or, How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead" | Penguin Classics, September 29, 2009, cover price $15.00

9780140187281 | Reprint edition (Penguin Classics, June 1, 1994), cover price $14.00

The Father of a Murderer

Product Description: The Father of a Murderer takes place in a classroom of the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in 1920s Munich over the course of a single Greek lesson. Head-master Himmler (the father of Heinrich Himmler) enters the classroom, apparently to observe the students' progress...read more

By Alfred Andersch and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9780811212618 | New Directions, April 1, 1994, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A novella relating an incident from the author's youth in 1920s Munich describes how his life as a student ended due to the actions of his school's headmaster, who was also coincidentally the father of Heinrich Himmler

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9780811217620 | New Directions, April 30, 1994, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Father of a Murderer takes place in a classroom of the Wittelsbach Gymnasium in 1920s Munich over the course of a single Greek lesson.

And Never Said a Word

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9780810111530 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $41.95

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9780810111479 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $18.95

End of a Mission

Product Description: Book by Boll, Heinrich

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9780810111547 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, April 27, 1994), cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Book by Boll, Heinrich

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9780810111486 | Reprint edition (Northwestern Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Book by Boll, Heinrich

Darkness and a Little Light

Twelve stories depict life in the author's lost homeland of Sarmartia, and in East Germany during the 1950s and 1960s

By Johannes Bobrowski and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9780811212595 | New Directions, October 1, 1994, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Twelve stories depict life in the author's lost homeland of Sarmartia, and in East Germany during the 1950s and 1960s

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9780811217668 | New Directions, March 30, 1993, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A P.

Time of the Pheasant

In Berlin researching the role of his native Switzerland during Facism, Thom Winter discovers by chance that his mother had not died of natural causes, but was instead murdered, a fact that leads him to investigate his family further

By Leila Vennewitz (trans) and Otto F. Walter

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9780880641296 | Fromm Intl, October 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: In Berlin researching the role of his native Switzerland during Facism, Thom Winter discovers by chance that his mother had not died of natural causes, but was instead murdered, a fact that leads him to investigate his family further

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum: Or : How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead

After she falls in love with a radical lawbreaker, Katharina Blum becomes the target of vicious barbs from scandal-hungry journalists

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz (trans)

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9781852900175 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, November 1, 1990), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: After she falls in love with a radical lawbreaker, Katharina Blum becomes the target of vicious barbs from scandal-hungry journalists

The Casualty

This collection of stories describes the daily lives of Germans during the Second World War and its aftermath, capturing the thoughts and emotions of soldiers and the suffering of the ordinary Germans who paid for the war.

By Heinrich Boll and Leila Vennewitz

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9780374119676 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1987, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories describes the daily lives of Germans during the Second World War and its aftermath, capturing the thoughts and emotions of soldiers and the suffering of the ordinary Germans who paid for the war

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9780393305999 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: This collection of stories describes the daily lives of Germans during the Second World War and its aftermath, capturing the thoughts and emotions of soldiers and the suffering of the ordinary Germans who paid for the war.

Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl

Gesine and her daughter, Marie, emigrate from West Germany to New York City, where they are caught up in the political events of 1968

By Walter Arndt, Uwe Johnson and Leila Vennewitz

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9780151075621 | Harcourt, September 1, 1987, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Gesine and her daughter, Marie, emigrate from West Germany to New York City, where they are caught up in the political events of 1968

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