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  The Castle

  by Franz Kafka

  Based on the restored text of Kafka's masterpiece, Mark Harman's acclaimed translation is "the closest to Kafka's original novel and intention that any translation could get . . . eminently readable" (Egon Schwartz, Washington University in St. Louis).
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  The Glass Bead Game

  or, Magister Ludi

  by Hermann Hesse

  The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the 23rd century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish.... (more)
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  Narcissus and Goldmund

  by Hermann Hesse

  Hesse's novel of two medieval men, one quietly  content with his religion and monastic life, the  other in fervent search of more worldly salvation.  This conflict between flesh and spirit, between  emotional and contemplative man, was a life study for  Hesse. It is a theme that transcends all time.  The Hesse Phenomenon "has turned into a vogue,  the vogue into a torrent. . .He has appealed both  to. . . an... (more)
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  Amerika

  or, The Man Who Disappeared

  by Franz Kafka

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
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  The Trial

  by Franz Kafka

  Written in 1914, The Trial is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism,... (more)
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  Steppenwolf

  by Hermann Hesse

  Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, shy and alienated from society. His despair and desire for death draw him into a dark, enchanted underworld. Through a series of shadowy encounters - romantic, freakish and savage by turn - the misanthropic Haller gradually begins to rediscover the lost dreams of his youth. This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the... (more)
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  Doctor Faustus

  by Thomas Mann

  "John E. Woods is revising our impression of Thomas Mann, masterpiece by masterpiece."  --The New Yorker "Doctor Faustus is Mann's deepest artistic gesture. . . . Finely translated by John E. Woods." --The New Republic Thomas Mann's last great novel, first published in 1947 and now newly rendered into English by acclaimed translator John E. Woods, is a modern reworking of the Faust legend, in which Germany sells... (more)
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  The Pigeon

  by Patrick Süskind

  Set in Paris and attracting comparisons with Franz Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe, "The Pigeon" is Patrick Suskind's tense, disturbing follow-up to the bestselling "Perfume". The novella tells the story of a day in the meticulously ordered life of bank security guard, Jonathan Noel, who has been hiding from life since his wife left him for her Tunisian lover. When Jonathan opens his front door on a day he believes will... (more)
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  The Angel of the West Window (Dedalus European Classics)

  by Gustav Meyrink

  novel of Elizabethan magus John Dee, tr M Mitchell
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  Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks)

  by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Originally published in 1766, Lessing's seminal tract is a turning point in the study of Western art. In this essay on the origins, forms, and influences of painting and poetry, Lessing helped frame modern conceptions of the artistic medium, and founded our modernist assumptions of the uniqueness of the individual arts.
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  The Best Tales of Hoffmann

  by E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Ten of Hoffmann’s greatest tales, enormously popular in Europe but rarely seen in the United States: "The Golden Flower Pot," "Automata," "Nutcracker and the King of Mice," "The Sand Man," and six others. Edited and corrected by E. F. Bleiler. 7 drawings by Hoffmann.
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  Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

  Politics and Culture

  by Carl E. Schorske

  A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently... (more)
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  Mimesis

  The Representation of Reality in Western Literature

  by Erich Auerbach

  A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by... (more)
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  The Robbers and Wallenstein

  by Friedrich Schiller

  Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, "The Robbers" was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal, it quickly established his fame throughout Germany and wider Europe. "Wallenstein", produced nineteen years later,... (more)
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  Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Trans. By W. R. Boyce Gibson

  by Edmund Husserl

  Originally published 1931.
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  Goethe's Faust: Book 1

  Faust

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann's translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe's language. Includes Part One and selections from Part Two.
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  The Novices of Sais

  by Ralph Manheim, Novalis

  Novalis is one of the towering figures of German Romanticism. The Novices of Sais , translated from the German into French in 1925, received enthusiastic recognition by artists and poets alike and is often quoted by the surrealists. The text is a lyrical combination of Romantic emotion combined with a profound fascination with nature. In 1949, the novel was translated into English by Ralph Manheim and accompanied... (more)
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  Henry von Ofterdingen

  by Novalis

  A strange, ingenious novel, the most representative work of early German Romanticism! This extraordinary fusion of novel, fairy tale, and poem, published posthumously in 1802, is the most representative work of early German Romanticism. It reflects, in part, events in the life of its author, who is best known for his Hymns to the Night. Young Henry, a medieval poet who seeks the mysterious Blue Flower with... (more)
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  Der falsche Nero

  by Lion Feuchtwanger

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  Goethe's Faust: Book 2

  Faust, Part 2

  by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  This sparkling new translation of FAUST: PART TWO now affords English-language readers much of the pleasure found by readers of the original German. Award-winning translator Martin Greenberg casts Goethe's verse in a natural, vigorous, lucid English that preserves Goethe's poetic effects while accurately rendering the sense of the original lines.