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9780521340328, titled "Robert Musil's the Man Without Qualities: A Critical Study" | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $59.95 | also contains Pro Bono?

Paperback:

9780521110600, titled "Robert Musil's 'the Man Without Qualities': A Critical Study" | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 7, 2009, cover price $44.99

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Product Description: W.G. Sebald's books are sui generis hybrids of fiction, travelogue, autobiography and historical expos», in which a narrator (both Sebald and not Sebald) comments on the quick blossoming of natural wonders and the long deaths that come of human atrocities...read more
By Christel Dillbohner (editor) and Lise Patt (editor)

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9781889917115 | Inst of Cultural Inquiry, November 1, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: W.

Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hardcover:

9780714536750 | Riverrun Pr, May 1, 1982, cover price $11.95
9780714537023 | Riverrun Pr, March 1, 1982, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Paperback:

9780714542171, titled "Wilhelm Meister: The Years of Apprenticeship" | Reprint edition (Riverrun Pr, January 30, 2009), cover price $20.95
9780714542188, titled "Wilhelm Meister: The Years of Apprenticeship" | Reprint edition (Riverrun Pr, July 30, 2007), cover price $20.95

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Product Description: In ON LOVE AND DEATH, Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death. In this witty and thought-provoking meditation on the two elemental forces of human existence, he brilliantly draws on scenes as contemporary as a young couple having oral sex in a traffic jam, as literary as Thomas Mann's discovery of forbidden love at an advanced age, and as mythical as the stories of death conquered through love in the narratives of Orpheus and Jesus...read more

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9781585679508 | Overlook Pr, November 22, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In ON LOVE AND DEATH, Patrick Suskind reveals the hidden source of his mesmerizing fiction: an obsession with the darkly erotic link between love and death.

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By Peter Wortsman (trans)

Hardcover:

9780941419000 | Eridanos Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $21.00

Paperback:

9780140189155 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $11.95
9780941419017 | Marsilio Pub, December 1, 1987, cover price $12.00

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Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets. Celan's prose is as thought-provoking as, and less familiar than, his poetry. The writings and aphorisms on poetry and art illuminate the sources of his language.

Hardcover:

9780935296921 | Sheep Meadow Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Essays and speeches deal with Jewish heritage, alienation from society, and the nature of writing
9780856356452 | Carcanet Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In The New Yorker, George Steiner referred to Paul Celan's prose as "a handful of speeches and a parable, which are transforming the landscape of poetic theory and the philosophy of language.

Paperback:

9781857546910 | New edition (Carcanet Pr, April 28, 2006), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Paul Celan (1920-1970) stands as one of the greatest post-war European poets.
9780415967235 | Routledge, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: First published in 2003.
9781857544695 | Carcanet Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Paul Celan wrote formal prose reluctantly, and this is a collection of his sparse, illuminating writings on poetry and art, and the aphorisms that contribute to our sense of the poet and his vocation.

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A final compilation of essays by the award-winning late author of Austerlitz explores the themes of the power of memory and personal history, the links between images in the arts and life, and the existence of ghosts in different places and artifacts. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781400062294 | Random House Inc, March 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A final compilation of essays by the award-winning late author of Austerlitz explores the themes of the power of memory and personal history, the links between images in the arts and life, and the existence of ghosts in different places and artifacts.

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9780812972320 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, February 14, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A final compilation of essays by the award-winning late author of Austerlitz explores the themes of the power of memory and personal history, the links between images in the arts and life, and the existence of ghosts in different places and artifacts.

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Product Description: This is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach.

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9780820483597 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 31, 2006, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach.
9783039109500 | 3 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 31, 2006), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This is one of Stifter’s great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach.

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Product Description: Brand New. Ship worldwide

Hardcover:

9788446019015 | Italian edition edition (Akal Ediciones Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $182.95 | About this edition: Brand New.

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Henry of Navarre, now King Henry IV of France, confronts war, religious revivals, political intrigues, and other challenges during his sixteenth-century reign, in the sequel to Young Henry of Navarre. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780879519995 | Overlook Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Henry of Navarre, now King of France, faces war, religious revivals, political intrigues, and other challenges during the sixteenth century

Paperback:

9781585674886 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, October 31, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Henry of Navarre, now King Henry IV of France, confronts war, religious revivals, political intrigues, and other challenges during his sixteenth-century reign, in the sequel to Young Henry of Navarre.
9780879512248 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, March 1, 1987), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Henry, King of France, the sequel to Young Henry of Navarre, the compelling epic of Henry IV's reign over France is followed to its tragic destiny.

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Product Description: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death by fire. Letters to Felician came both chronologically and conceptually just before the fork in the road which divides Bach-mann’s career, making it an important document for reading her later work...read more

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9781931243162 | Green Integer Books, May 30, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) was one of the major writers of the 20th century: a poet who turned away from poetry, and a prose writer whose great project remained unfinished at the time of her death by fire.

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Product Description: This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century. "German Essays on Film" is divided into five parts: Late Wilhelmine Germany; Weimar Republic (1918-33); Inside the "Third Reich" (1933-45); Intellectuals in Exile; and Postwar Germany: since 1945...read more
By Alison Guenther-Pal (editor) and Richard W. McCormick (editor)

Hardcover:

9780826415066 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, May 1, 2004, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This fascinating volume is for all serious students of European cinema as well as historians of Germany in the 20th century.

Paperback:

9780826415073 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 1, 2004, cover price $39.95

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Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.

Hardcover:

9780879512750 | Overlook Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: After learning from a gypsy that his fate is to become both a murderer and a saint, Tarabas, an adventurer of the Russian peasantry, leads a checkered career that sees the prophecy fulfilled

Paperback:

9781862075672 | New edition (Granta Books, April 22, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.
9781585673285 | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A powerful fable set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas is the story of a Russian peasant who learns in his youth from a gypsy that it is his destiny to be both a murderer and saint.
9780879512996 | Overlook Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A powerful fable set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas is the story of a Russian peasant who learns in his youth from a gypsy that it is his destiny to be both a murderer and saint.

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Product Description: "Green Henry" is a vivid and absorbing representation of Gottfried Keller's ideals and philosophy, written in poetic language and a realistic style that documents the emergence of an artist and the development of a man. Partly autobiographical, the narrative recounts the experiences of the title character ("green" after the color of clothing he always wears) through confinement and ostracism at boarding school, apprenticeship with a painter in Munich, his divided affection for two women, and the acceptance of his duty toward his country and fellow citizens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Paperback:

9781585674275 | Reissue edition (Overlook Pr, November 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "Green Henry" is a vivid and absorbing representation of Gottfried Keller's ideals and philosophy, written in poetic language and a realistic style that documents the emergence of an artist and the development of a man.
9780714502656 | Riverrun Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The story of young Henry, who struggles to fulfil his ambitions to become a successful painter and is torn between the gentle Anna and the proud and sensual Judith, is one of the most outstanding and personal Bildungsromane written in the German language.

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Product Description: Examining the mind of a revolutionary and the impersonality of ideology, The Silent Prophet is Roth’s self-described Trotsky novel―written around 1928 but never published in the author’s lifetime. Based on his own observations during an extended stay in Moscow in the winter of 1926, The Silent Prophet is Roth’s vivid attempt to explain the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by exposing the personal motivations of its leaders...read more

Hardcover:

9780879511104 | Viking Pr, July 1, 1980, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Friedrich Kargan, an outsider unable to fit into postwar Europe, is caught up in the Russian revolution, only to become disenchanted when his ideals are betrayed

Paperback:

9781585674213 | Reissue edition (Overlook Pr, July 1, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Examining the mind of a revolutionary and the impersonality of ideology, The Silent Prophet is Roth’s self-described Trotsky novel―written around 1928 but never published in the author’s lifetime.
9780720611359 | Peter Owen Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This novel was the result of Roth's visit to Moscow in 1926 when speculation about the fate of Trotsky was rife.
9780879513849 | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, February 1, 1990), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Examining the mind of a revolutionary and the impersonality of ideology, The Silent Prophet is Roth’s self-described Trotsky novel―written around 1928 but never published in the author’s lifetime.

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The great Jewish scholar shares his insights into philosopher Walter Benjamin, a childhood friend who committed suicide in 1940. Reprint. (view table of contents)
By Gershom Scholem, Lee Siegel (introduced by) and Harry Zohn (trans)

Paperback:

9781590170328 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, March 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The great Jewish scholar shares his insights into philosopher Walter Benjamin, a childhood friend who committed suicide in 1940.

Illegitimate son of a Russian prince and raised by a forester, the narrator joins the Ochrana, the Czar's secret police, and plans revenge on his legitimate half brother

Hardcover:

9780879519896 | Overlook Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Illegitimate son of a Russian prince and raised by a forester, the narrator joins the Ochrana, the Czar's secret police, and plans revenge on his legitimate half brother

Paperback:

9781585673841 | Overlook Pr, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.95
9780879512873 | Overlook Pr, July 1, 1987, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Illegitimate son of a Russian prince and raised by a forester, the narrator joins the Ochrana, the Czar's secret police, and plans revenge on his legitimate half brother

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Product Description: The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times. The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I...read more

Paperback:

9781585673742 | Overlook Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times.

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Franz Ferdinand Trotta and his two friends experience the hardships of war during the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Hardcover:

9780879519858, titled "The Emperor's Tomb" | Overlook Pr, January 1, 1985, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Franz Ferdinand Trotta and his two friends experience the hardships of war during the final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Paperback:

9781585673278, titled "The Emperor's Tomb" | Overlook Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $14.95
9780879512705, titled "The Emperor's Tomb" | Reprint edition (Overlook Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The Emperor's Tomb is a nostalgic, haunting elegy for the end of youth and the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Product Description: This unique collection, concentrating on the years 1938-48, includes the following authors and works:--Ernst Jnnger, From The First Paris Diary and The Second Paris Diary--Irmgard Keun, From After Midnight--Wolfgang Koeppen, From Death in Rome--Alexander Lernet-Holenia, From Mars in Aries--Gregor von Rezzori, ...read more

Hardcover:

9780826414052 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 1, 2002, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This unique collection, concentrating on the years 1938-48, includes the following authors and works:--Ernst Jnnger, From The First Paris Diary and The Second Paris Diary--Irmgard Keun, From After Midnight--Wolfgang Koeppen, From Death in Rome--Alexander Lernet-Holenia, From Mars in Aries--Gregor von Rezzori, L

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Product Description: Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition. His later work in particular stages a perpetual but little understood confrontation with German fascism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780814328804 | Wayne State Univ Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition.

Paperback:

9780814330838 | Wayne State Univ Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition.

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Paperback:

9781401044916, titled "The Hustler" | Xlibris Corp, April 1, 2002, cover price $22.99
9780932870582 | Alyson Pubns, February 1, 1985, cover price $7.95

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Critiquing the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that served as early malls--the author, who wrote the work in the 1920s and 1930s, covers thirty-six still-trenchant topics, including fashion, boredom, photography, advertising, and prostitution, among others. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780674043268 | Belknap Pr, December 10, 1999, cover price $71.00 | About this edition: Critiquing the arcades of nineteenth-century Paris--glass-roofed rows of shops that served as early malls--the author, who wrote the work in the 1920s and 1930s, covers thirty-six still-trenchant topics, including fashion, boredom, photography, advertising, and prostitution, among others.

Paperback:

9780674008021 | Belknap Pr, March 30, 2002, cover price $37.00

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