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  Dr. Zhivago

  by Boris Pasternak

  n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.
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  Siddhartha

  by Hermann Hesse

  A young Indian mystic, a contemporary of Buddha, sacrifices everything to search for the true meaning of life.
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  Letters to a Young Poet

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, requesting an assessment of their value. The older artist, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), replied to the novice in this series of letters--an amazing archive of remarkable insights into the ideas behind Rilke's greatest poetry. The ten letters reproduced here were written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic... (more)
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  DEMIAN

  by Hermann Hesse

  In Demian, one of the great writers of the twentieth century tells the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent--led by precocious shoolmate Max Demian--into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood. "The electrifying influence exercised on a whole generation just after the First World War by Demian ...is unforgettable. With... (more)
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  Death in Venice and Other Stories

  by Thomas Mann

  This translation of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann's work includes his masterpiece, "Death in Venice," plus six of the author's short stories: "Tristan," "Tonio Kroger," "Man and Dog: An Idyll," "Hour of Hardship," "Tobias Mindernickel," and "The Child Prodigy."
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  Invitation to a Beheading (Vintage International)

  by Vladimir Nabokov

  Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude." an imaginary crime that defies definition. Cincinnatus spends his last days in an absurd jail, where he is visited by chimerical jailers. an executioner who masquerades as a fellow prisoner,... (more)
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  The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: A Novel (Vintage International)

  by Burton Pike, Rainer Maria Rilke

  This is the definitive, widely acclaimed translation of the major prose work of one of our century's greatest poets -- "a masterpiece like no other" (Elizabeth Hardwick) -- Rilke's only novel, extraordinary for its structural uniqueness and purity of language. First published in 1910, it has proven to be one of the most influential and enduring works of fiction of our century. Malte Laurids Brigge is a young... (more)
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  Brother of Sleep: A Novel

  by Robert Schneider

  A highly unusual tale about an unrecognized musical genius, Schneider's debut novel touches the grand questions about God, love, art and history. Set in a modest peasant town in early 19th-century Germany, the novel establishes a parable tone in the first sentence: ``This is the story of the musician Johannes Elias Alder, who took his own life at the age of twenty-two, after he had resolved never to sleep again.''... (more)
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  Duino Elegies and the Sonnets of Orpheus

  by Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long considered the definitive English translation of Rilke’s brilliant and haunting masterworks, A. Poulin’s edition of Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus provides an essential introduction to some of the most passionate and intensely creative visionary poetry of the twentieth century. With a new foreword by the esteemed poet Mark Doty and a fresh new design, Poulin’s revered translation is certain to... (more)