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1	Letters to a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist Relatively early in Rilke's literary career, these letters began as advice addressed to a young student who had solicited it by sending Rilke some poems. The two authors never met, but over the course of several years a correspondence developed in which Rilke composed astoundingly elegant and eloquent characterizations of the craft and discipline ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.13! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Peeling the Onion more books like this by Gunter Grass, Michael Henry Heim (Translator) add to wishlist In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when "The Tin Drum "was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944 ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Diaries of a Young Poet more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Michael Winkler (Translator), Edward A Snow (Translator) add to wishlist A compilation of Rilke's diaries, beginning with entries made in April 1898 when he arrived in Florence as a 22-year poet unsure of his vocation and his destiny. Snow and Winkler, professor of literature at Rice University, provide annotations of the journals, which include much heretofore unpublished verse. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Looking Back: Memoirs more books like this by Lou Andreas-Salome, Breon Mitchell (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $27.40! new only from $78.95! \| first editions
5	Great German Poems of the Romantic Era: A Dual-Language Book more books like this by Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Over 130 poems by 23 poets, including Goethe, Schiller, Holderlin, Tieck, Heine, Nietzsche, many others. New literal English translations on facing pages. Introduction. see all copies from $3.25! new only from $6.56!
6	The Hesse-Mann letters : the correspondence of Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann, 1910-1955 more books like this by Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Anni Carlsson, Volker Michels add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	Letters to Merline, 1919-1922 more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	Hermann Hesse: Life and Art more books like this by Joseph Mileck add to wishlist see all copies from $3.48! new only from $19.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Sturm Und Drang more books like this by Friedrich Schiller, J Friedrich Von Schiller, Alan C Leidner (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $16.00! new only from $25.66! \| SVS
10	Goethe and the Weimar Theatre more books like this by Marvin A Carlson add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
11	My search for B. Traven more books like this by Jonah Raskin add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Berlin Childhood Around 1900 more books like this by Walter Benjamin, Howard Eiland (Translator) add to wishlist Begun in Poveromo, Italy, in 1932, and extensively revised in 1938, "Berlin Childhood around 1900" remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime, one of his 'large-scale defeats'. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered 'final version' that contains the author's own arrangement ... see all copies from $7.12! new only from $10.53! \| SVS
13	Letters of Thomas Mann, 1889-1955 more books like this by Thomas Mann add to wishlist This selection of Thomas Mann's letters spans sixty-six years, from the first, written in 1889 by a precocious fourteen-year-old, to the last, composed on his deathbed in 1955 by the eighty-year-old Nobel Laureate and world figure. Covering two world wars and exile in America and Europe, these letters offer the reader insight into the concerns and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.99! \| first editions
14	Rilke and Andreas-Salome: A Love Story in Letters more books like this by Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salome, Edward Snow (Translator) add to wishlist A collection of letters between the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and the writer and intellectual Lou Andreas-Salome. see all copies from $6.87! new only from $6.87!
15 view cover	Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs more books like this by Ursula Marx (Editor), Gudrun Schwarz (Editor), Michael Schwarz (Editor) add to wishlist This work is an absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents from his own collection. The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday life, arts and dreams. This beautifully designed book gives an insight into ... see all copies from $17.49! new only from $17.49! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Bertolt Brecht in America more books like this by James K. Lyon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	Salome: Her Life & Work more books like this by Angela Livingstone add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940 more books like this by Anson Rabinbach (Introduction by), Gershom Gerhard Scholem (Editor), Gary Smith (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $17.75! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Life of Goethe more books like this by George Henry Lewes add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. EARLY EXPERIENCES. It is profoundly false to say that " Character is formed by Circumstance," unless the phrase, with unphilosophic equivocation, include ... see all copies from $9.80! new only from $18.92! \| SVS
20	Unheeded Warning more books like this by Manes Sperber add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	Erich Maria Remarque: The Last Romantic more books like this by Hilton TIMS add to wishlist For more than seventy years Erich Maria Remarque's startlingly realistic and intensely moving anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front has remained a worldwide best seller. A political and literary sensation when it was first published, Remarque's masterpiece was banned and burned in the 1930s by the Nazis. Remarque was forced to flee ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Goethe's World as Seen in Letters and Memoirs more books like this by Berthold Biermann (Editor), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe add to wishlist see all copies from $3.91! first editions
23 view cover	Goethe: The Poet and the Age: Volume II: Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 more books like this by Nicholas Boyle add to wishlist The 13 most productive years of Goethe's life are chronicled in this volume of a celebrated biography. The book includes detailed analysis of Goethe's poems and books of the period, which included WILHELM MEISTER'S APPRENTICESHIP and much of FAUST. see all copies from $11.69! first editions
24 view cover	Goethe: The Poet and the Age more books like this by Nicholas Boyle add to wishlist In this, the second volume of Goethe: The Poet and the Age, Nicholas Boyle covers the most eventful and crowded years of Goethe's life: the period of the French Revolution, which turned his life upside down, and of the German philosophical revolution which ushered in the periods of Idealism and Romanticism. It was also a period dominated by two ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $3.86! \| first editions
25 view cover	Walter Benjamin : the story of a friendship more books like this by Gershom Scholem add to wishlist Gershom Scholem was a teenager when he and Walter Benjamin became close friends. Here he illuminates their common engagement with the Kabbalah and sharp disagreement over Marxism, while registering his undying sorrow at Benjamin?s refusal to emigrate to Palestine and his suicide in 1940. This remarkable memoir is both a portrait of two searching ... see all copies from $2.58! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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