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1	The Loser more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard Thomas Bernhard's novel is based loosely on the life of pianist Glenn Gould, whose monstrous talents destroy two of his friends. see all copies from $5.99! new only from $7.16! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Gargoyles. more books like this by Thomas Bernhard Early one morning a doctor sets out with his son on his daily rounds through the forbidding mountainous countryside. Their visits, a succession of grotesque portraits--a diabetic industrialist living in incestuous isolation with his half-sister; three brothers, occupying a mill set in a deep gorge, who have just strangled a bevy of exotic birds; a ... see all copies from $5.96! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Foundations of Education: The Challenge of Professional Practice more books like this by Robert F McNergney, Joanne M Herbert "Foundations of Education, Third Edition, analyzes tough issues teachers will face upon entering their field, including professionalism, school reform, cultural diversity, inclusion, and technology." Through new and greatly revised chapters and new pedagogical features, this edition helps pre-service teachers analyze issues and determine how they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
4	Old Masters: A Comedy more books like this by Thomas Bernhard In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher--who fears Reger's plans to kill himself--gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With ... see all copies from $10.36! new only from $10.36! \| first editions
5	Yes more books like this by Thomas Bernhard, Ewald Osers The narrator, a scientist working on antibodies and suffering from emotional and mental illness, meets a Persian woman, the companion of a Swiss engineer, at an office in rural Austria. For the scientist, his endless talks with the strange Asian woman mean release from his condition, but for the Persian woman, as her own circumstances deteriorate, ... see all copies from $8.06! new only from $8.06! \| first editions
6	Woodcutters more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard A black comedy of manners in which Bernhard portrays Viennese bourgeois society, the theatre world, and civilization itself. The narrator has spent the last 30 years in London. On a brief trip to Vienna he meets a couple he knew in his youth, who tell him of the suicide of another mutual friend. see all copies from $23.02! new only from $32.90! \| first editions
7	The Voice Imitator more books like this by Thomas Bernhard, Kenneth J Northcott (Translator) This collection , first published in Germany in 1978, contains 104 stories, each less than a page long, most of them about political corruption, madness, violence, and the inadequacies of language. see all copies from $4.75! new only from $7.76! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Extinction more books like this by Thomas Bernhard An Austrian writer named Murau goes to Rome to tutor a young man; his parents are killed in a car crash, and he returns home for the funeral, consumed by his loathing for the country of his birth and for the German weltanschaüng. David McLintock's translation of Thomas Bernhard's bleak and honest novel won the Times Literary Supplement Schlegel ... see all copies from $7.77! new only from $48.10! \| first editions
9	Correction more books like this by Thomas Bernhard "Like Swift, Bernhard writes like a sacred monster....A remarkable literary performer: he goes to extremes in ways that vivify our sense of human possibilities, however destructive". -- Richard Locke, Wall Street Journal "The excellence of Bernard -- and it is a kind virtuosity, ably maintained in this American translation -- is to make his ... see all copies from $16.31! new only from $16.31!
10	Concrete more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard A dark an grotesquely funny tale. Instead of the book on Felix Mendelssohn he means to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces a story of procrastination, failure, and despair, of small woes and grudges magnified, detailed, and dissected to the point of utter distraction. In Rudolph's life every desire and emotion has it evil twin: his ... see all copies from $25.01! first editions
11	Cutting timber : an imitation by Thomas Bernhard see all copies from $10.00! first editions
12 view cover	Histrionics : three plays more books like this by Thomas Bernhard "Like Swift, Bernhard writes like a sacred monster....A remarkable literary performer: he goes to extremes in ways that vivify our sense of human possibilities, however destructive". -- Richard Locke, Wall Street Journal "The excellence of Bernard -- and it is a kind virtuosity, ably maintained in this American translation -- is to make his ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $24.22! \| first editions
13 view cover	The lime works. more books like this by Thomas Bernhard For over 20 years, Konrad and his invalid wife have lived in self-imposed isolation in an abandoned lime works while Konrad prepares to write his masterwork "The Sense of Hearing." As the story begins, Konrad has just blown out his wife's brains with the rifle she had kept tied to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life the couple have led ... see all copies from $38.99! new only from $69.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	Wittgenstein's nephew : a friendship more books like this by Thomas Bernhard This novel is based on Bernhard's own friendship with the nephew of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. see all copies from $45.00! first editions
15 view cover	Greek Tragedy: An Introduction more books like this by Professor Bernhard Zimmermann, Professor Thomas Marier (Translator) In lively and thorough summaries of the major works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Zimmermann examines such topics as techniques of characterization, conditions and conventions of stage performances, musical and metrical aspects, and the religious and political content of the plays. see all copies from $3.94! new only from $22.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Frost more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard, Michael Hofmann (Translator) Visceral, raw, singular, and distinctive, "Frost" is the story of a friendship between a young man at the beginning of his medical career and a painter who is entering his final days. A writer of world stature, Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. "Frost" follows an unnamed young Austrian who ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $8.26! \| SVS
17	Gathering Evidence: Mem more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's autobiography in five short volumes originally published separately. see all copies from $13.50! first editions
18 view cover	Three Novellas more books like this by Thomas Bernhard Each of these three novellas by the great Austrian writer deals with an aspect of madness, sometimes suicidal. Bernhard's pessimistic view, which he illustrated in the body of his work, was that life is a tragedy. see all copies from $10.95! new only from $18.67! \| first editions
19	Gathering Evidence by Thomas Bernhard Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's autobiography in five short volumes originally published separately. see all copies from $15.80! new only from $15.80!
20	Wittgenstein's Nephew more books like this by Thomas Bernhard This novel is based on Bernhard's own friendship with the nephew of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. see all copies from $59.99! first editions
21	Gathering evidence : a memoir more books like this by Thomas Bernhard Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's autobiography in five short volumes originally published separately. see all copies from $10.12! new only from $55.00!
22	Heldenplatz more books like this by Thomas Bernhard see all copies from $5.91! new only from $17.95!
23	The cheap-eaters by Thomas Bernhard see all copies from $47.20! first editions
24	The President and Eve of Retirement: Two Plays more books like this by Ms. Gitta Honegger (Translator), Professor Thomas Bernhard see all copies from $33.00! first editions
25	On the mountain more books like this by Thomas Bernhard see all copies from $1.99! new only from $73.69! \| first editions \| SVS

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