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1	The Haunted Looking Glass more books like this by Edward Gorey (Editor), Robert Walser "The Haunted Looking Glass" is the late Edward Gorey's selection of his favorite tales of ghosts, ghouls, and grisly goings-on. It includes stories by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M. R. James, W. W. Jacobs, and L. P. Hartley, among other masters of the fine art of making the flesh creep, all accompanied by Gorey's inimitable illustrations. ... see all copies from $4.08! new only from $8.55! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Jakob Von Gunten more books like this by Professor Robert Walser "Aqui se aprende muy poco, falta personal docente y nosotros, los muchachos del Instituto Benjamenta, jamas llegaremos a nada, es decir, que el dia de manana seremos todos gente muy modesta y subordinada. La ensenanza que nos imparten consiste basicamente en inculcarnos paciencia y obediencia, dos cualidades que prometen escaso o ningun exito. ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $7.55! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History more books like this by Professor Robert Walser (Editor) Drawing from contemporary journalism, reviews, program notes, memoirs, interviews, and other sources, Keeping Time lets you experience, first hand, the controversies and critical issues that have accompanied jazz from its very birth. Edited by Robert Walser, these sixty-two thought provoking pieces offer a wealth of insight into jazz. Some of the ... see all copies from $8.83! new only from $28.09! \| first editions
4	Selected Stories of Robert Walser more books like this by Professor Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator), Susan Sontag (Foreword by) How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreaking verbal artifacts; an inspiration to such very different writers as Kafka and W.G. Sebald; ... see all copies from $9.25! new only from $9.25! \| SVS
5	Selected stories more books like this by Professor Robert Walser A collection of the best of the short fiction by Robert Walser. The collection is arranged chronologically, ranging from 1907 to 1929--the year that schizophrenia ended his writing career. Walser's work is said to have influenced Kafka, and these stories display isolation, irony, detachment, and terror on the verge of mental ruin. Yet, they are ... see all copies from $3.50! first editions \| SVS
6	Running with the Devil more books like this by Professor Robert Walser A Choice Outstanding Academic Book. A musicologist and cultural critic as well as a professional musician, Robert Walser offers a comprehensive musical, social, and cultural analysis of heavy metal in Running with the Devil. Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $25.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Assistant more books like this by Professor Robert Walser, Professor Susan Bernofsky (Translator) This classic by Robert Walser--who was admired greatly by Kafka, Musil, Walter Benjamin, and W. G. Sebald--is now presented in English for the very first time. Robert Walser is an overwhelmingly original author with many ardent fans: J. M. Coetzee ("dazzling"), Guy Davenport ("a very special kind of whimsical-serious-deep writer"), and Hermann ... see all copies from $3.75! new only from $4.50! \| SVS
8	Speaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912-1932 more books like this by Professor Robert Walser, Christopher Middleton (Translator) The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, 'If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place', Robert Walser (1878-1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits - if not with his self-image. After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $12.35! \| SVS
9	Riding the High Country more books like this by Patrick T Tucker see all copies from $1.99! first editions
10	Masquerade and Other Stories more books like this by Robert Walser Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his "true profession." From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose pieces. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| SVS
11	Joan Nelson more books like this by John Cheim (Editor), Robert Walser see all copies from $4.16! new only from $6.67! \| first editions
12	The Robber more books like this by Robert Walser, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) "The Robber", Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons, flirts with important politicians, plays maidservant to young boys, and uses a passer-by's mouth as an ashtray. Walser's novel spoofs the stiff-upper ... see all copies from $15.68! new only from $15.68! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Music, Society, Education more books like this by Christopher Small, Robert Walser (Foreword by) Cited by Soundpost as "remarkable and revolutionary" upon its publication in 1977, Music, Society, Education has become a classic in the study of music as a social force. Christopher Small sets out to examine the social implications of Western classical music, effects that until recently have been largely ignored or dismissed by most musicologists ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $39.27! \| first editions
14 view cover	The walk more books like this by Robert Walser A collection of short stories written at the turn of the century by a Swiss writer whose work influenced Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka. Robert Walser was one of the first practitioners of surrealism in 20th-century European literature, renowned for his themes of political menace and power. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.69!
15 view cover	Institute Benjamenta more books like this by Robert Walser This novel takes the form of the journal of a young man attending a school for butlers, the Benjamenta Institute. First published as "Jakob Von Gunten" in 1909, the book is now the subject of a Channel 4 feature film. see all copies from $9.18! new only from $9.18!
16	Geschwister Tanner : Roman by Robert Walser see all copies from $15.02! new only from $15.02!
17 view cover	Escrito a Lapiz - Microgramas I - 1924-1925 by Professor Robert Walser see all copies from $41.07! new only from $41.08!
18	Aus Dem Bleistiftgebiet by Robert Walser, Werner Morlang, Carl Seelig-Stiftung Z Urich see all copies from $112.17! new only from $112.17!
19	Der Gehülfe by Robert Walser see all copies from $30.51! new only from $30.51! \| first editions
20	Der Räuber by Robert Walser see all copies from $10.00!
21	El Paseo by Robert Walser La vida de Robert Walser es una de las mas apasionantes tragedias de la literatura centroeuropea de este siglo. Autodidacta, errante, finisimo estilista de la lengua alemana y provisto de una mirada capaz de destripar la realidad con la mas suave ironia, Walser empleo los pocos anos en que pudo escribir, entre 1904 y 1925, antes de sucumbir a una ... see all copies from $27.01! new only from $27.01!
22	Robert Walser Rediscovered: Stories, Fairy-Tale Plays, and Critical Responses--Including the Anti-Fairy Tales Cinderella and Snowwhite Translated by Walter Arndt more books like this by Professor Robert Walser, Mark Harman (Editor) see all copies from $9.01! new only from $12.50! \| first editions
23 view cover	Los Hermanos Tanner by Robert Walser De 1905 a 1913 el escritor suizo Robert Walser vive en Berlin, donde el poeta Christian Morgenstern lee "Los hermanos Tanner," su primera y mas celebrada novela, que recomienda al editor Bruno Cassirer: B+Este hombre hablara asi mientras viva y sus libros seran un extrano y fascinante espejo de la vidaB; . Como todas las obras de Walser esta ... see all copies from $36.29! new only from $36.29!
24 view cover	La Habitacion del Poeta more books like this by Professor Robert Walser see all copies from $32.01! new only from $32.01!
25	Die Rose by Robert Walser see all copies from $26.69! new only from $26.69!

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