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By Georg Vogt (other contributor)

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9780922233465 | Blast Books, November 15, 2016, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: After discovering the autobiography of the Austrian communist and writer Hugo Huppert (1902–1982), historian George Huppert became absorbed in the life and work of this man, a Jew, perhaps a relative, who was born a few months after George’s father and grew up just miles away...read more

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9780253019783 | Indiana Univ Pr, March 14, 2016, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: After discovering the autobiography of the Austrian communist and writer Hugo Huppert (1902–1982), historian George Huppert became absorbed in the life and work of this man, a Jew, perhaps a relative, who was born a few months after George’s father and grew up just miles away.

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9780300136616 | Yale Univ Pr, April 16, 2013, cover price $25.00

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9780300219722 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, March 22, 2016), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Now in paperback, a wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about KafkaIn the course of compiling his highly acclaimed, three-volume life of Kafka, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: original writings, unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, surprising excerpts from letters, and testimonies from Kafka’s contemporaries that shed surprising light on his personality and his writing...read more
By Kurt Beals (trans)

Hardcover:

9780811221238 | New Directions, March 21, 2016, cover price $27.95

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9780811225168 | New Directions, March 13, 2017, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Now in paperback, a wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about KafkaIn the course of compiling his highly acclaimed, three-volume life of Kafka, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: original writings, unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, surprising excerpts from letters, and testimonies from Kafka’s contemporaries that shed surprising light on his personality and his writing.

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By Franz Kafka, Ernst Kaiser (trans), Tom McCarthy (introduced by) and Eithne Wilkins (trans)

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9780805212662 | 2 blg edition (Schocken Books, November 3, 2015), cover price $14.00

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9781590516126 | Other Pr Llc, May 6, 2014, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9781590517420 | Other Pr Llc, August 25, 2015, cover price $17.95

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By Shelley Frisch (trans)

Hardcover:

9780691147512 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, June 9, 2013), cover price $35.00

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9780691165844 | Rep tra edition (Princeton Univ Pr, June 2, 2015), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: English summary: Hugo von Hofmannsthal clearly observed the social changes of his time and wished to sift through the consequences: the positionless individual, the marginalized artist, and the soulless society. Against the background of a modern social history, this work reconstructs von Hoffmansthals conflict with these three interrelated themes using hermeneutic analysis to investigate his more and less well known dramatic texts, essays and speeches...read more

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9783825362706 | Isd, February 1, 2014, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: English summary: Hugo von Hofmannsthal clearly observed the social changes of his time and wished to sift through the consequences: the positionless individual, the marginalized artist, and the soulless society.

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Examines the influential writer's life and work between 1910 and 1915, during which Kafka became fascinated with early Zionism, shared an engagement with Felice Bauer, and wrote such works as 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Trial.'

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9780151007523 | Houghton Mifflin, November 30, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Examines the influential writer's life and work between 1910 and 1915, during which Kafka became fascinated with early Zionism, shared an engagement with Felice Bauer, and wrote such works as 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Trial.

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9780691147413 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, June 9, 2013), cover price $27.95

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By Anthea Bell (trans)

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9780803226616 | Reprint edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, May 1, 2013), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: In The Grace of Misery. Joseph Roth and the Politics of Exile 19191939 Ilse Josepha Lazaroms offers an account of the life and intellectual legacy of Joseph Roth, one of interwar Europe's most critical and modern writers.

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9789004234628 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In The Grace of Misery.

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9789004234857 | Brill Academic Pub, November 1, 2012, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: In The Grace of Misery.

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By Michael Hofmann (editor)

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9780393060645 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 16, 2012, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: From a man who metamorphoses into an insect to a banker arrested on unspecified charges by a mysterious court, Franz Kafka’s fiction vividly evokes bizarre, almost surrealistic situations. Attending both to Kafka's crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion...read more

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9781402775307 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, May 4, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From a man who metamorphoses into an insect to a banker arrested on unspecified charges by a mysterious court, Franz Kafka’s fiction vividly evokes bizarre, almost surrealistic situations.

By Bettina Von Jagow (editor)

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9783525208526 | Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Gmbh & Co, March 19, 2008, cover price $69.00

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Chronicles the history of the Mets from their first dismal season in 1962

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9780028612485 | Macmillan General Reference, April 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains Franz Kafka: Representative Man | About this edition: Chronicles the history of the Mets from their first dismal season in 1962
9780028612485 | Macmillan General Reference, April 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains Franz Kafka: Representative Man | About this edition: Chronicles the history of the Mets from their first dismal season in 1962
9780028608587 | Macmillan General Reference, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains American Stoneware
9780028608587 | Macmillan General Reference, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains American Stoneware

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Chronicles the history of the Mets from their first dismal season in 1962

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9780395561430 | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1991, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Depicts the life of the distinguished Austrian author, Franz Kafka, examines his personality, and traces the development of his literary career

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9780028612485, titled "The New York Mets: A Photographic History" | Macmillan General Reference, April 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | also contains The New York Mets: A Photographic History | About this edition: Chronicles the history of the Mets from their first dismal season in 1962
9780880641463 | Fromm Intl, April 1, 1993, cover price $17.95

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The author describes her experiences as a young girl studying at Josef Hoffman's decorative arts school in Vienna during the 1920s

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9780670800896 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The author describes her experiences as a young girl studying at Josef Hoffman's decorative arts school in Vienna during the 1920s
9780028489803, titled "Studies in Disease Ecology" | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1961, cover price $27.95 | also contains Studies in Disease Ecology | About this edition: Volume 2 in the Studies in Medical Geography that was published under to auspices of the American Geographical Society.

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Product Description: Although Richard Beer Hofmann's profound influence on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arnold Schnitzler, and other turn-of-the-century Viennese writers life and work has appeared in nearly fifty years. This book fills that lacuna, placing Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), the central member of the literary ground known as 'Young Vienna,' in the context of his time and furnishing a fine critical discussion of all his major works...read more

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9780271003351 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, August 1, 1983, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Although Richard Beer Hofmann's profound influence on Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Arnold Schnitzler, and other turn-of-the-century Viennese writers life and work has appeared in nearly fifty years.

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Product Description: Volume 2 in the Studies in Medical Geography that was published under to auspices of the American Geographical Society.

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9780028489803 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1961, cover price $27.95 | also contains A Design for Living | About this edition: Volume 2 in the Studies in Medical Geography that was published under to auspices of the American Geographical Society.
9780028489803 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1961, cover price $27.95 | also contains A Design for Living | About this edition: Volume 2 in the Studies in Medical Geography that was published under to auspices of the American Geographical Society.

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Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and this is an open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - in which Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul.

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9780805230505 | Schocken Books, June 1, 1954, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Includes drafts and fragments of Kafka's works besides his well-known 'Letter to his Father.

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9781847490254 | Trafalgar Square, April 1, 2009, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Conflict between father and son is one of the oldest themes in literature, and this is an open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - in which Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obsessions of his troubled soul.

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