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  The Tin Drum

  by Günter Grass

  The publication of "The Tin Drum" in 1959 launched Gunther Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
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  Goethe Werke: Book 3

  Faust

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
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  Rock Crystal

  by Adalbert Stifter

  Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature" is among the most unusual, moving, and memorable of Christmas stories. Two... (more)
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  The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

  by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

  Also printed as: Kinder- und Hausmärchen (German), Grimm's Fairy Tales (English)For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only... (more)
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  Vertigo

  by W. G. Sebald

  Vertigo is the third novel New Directions has published by W.G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo , W.G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald -- the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness -- takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo .... (more)
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  Ali and Nino

  A Love Story

  by Kurban Said

  First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to Dr. Zhivago and Romeo and Juliet . Its mysterious author was recently the subject of a feature article in the New Yorker , which has inspired a forthcoming biography. Out of print for nearly three decades until the hardcover re-release last year, Ali and Nino is Kurban Said's masterpiece. It is a... (more)
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  The Glass Bees

  by Ernst Jünger, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Mayer

  In The Glass Bees the celebrated German writer Ernst Juenger presents a disconcerting vision of the future. Zapparoni, a brilliant businessman, has turned his advanced understanding of technology, and strategic command of the information and entertainment industries, into a discrete, and seemingly benign, form of global domination. But Zapparoni is worried that the scientists he depends on might take his secrets... (more)
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  The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

  by E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the confident scholar, lover, carouser and brawler, and the moody,... (more)