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1	All Quiet on the Western Front more books like this by Erich Maria Remarque Remarque's famous novel about a soldier's experiences in World War I. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Metamorphosis more books like this by Franz Kafka This is a graphic novel adaptation of Kafka's immortal absurdist tale of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up to find he has been transformed into a cockroach. The black-and-white scratchboard, woodcut-like drawings point up the physical resemblance between Gregor-as-human and Gregor-as-cockroach, and illustrate how the overwhelming pressures and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Trial more books like this by Franz Kafka Kafka's exploration of the psychological terror inherent in everyday life is both allegorical and stunningly realistic. A bank employee named Joseph K. is accused of a crime he not only did not commit but doesn't even understand. He is released, but thereafter enslaved to a legal system that requires him to continue to go to court to defend his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Man Without Qualities more books like this by Robert Musil A new, complete translation in two volumes of the momentous novel described by "The New York Times Book Review" as "unfinished and unfinishable." Documenting the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the novel begins just before World War I to explore the "Age of Anxiety." see all copies from $5.20! new only from $31.43! \| first editions
5	Glass Bead Game more books like this by Hermann Hesse A work of science fiction by the acclaimed German author and Nobel Laureate. Purportedly a historical chronicle written in the year 2400, it describes the rise to political prominence of an elite organization of scholars, called the Castalia. As the only educated class left within society, the Castalia are responsible for preserving and handing on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.82! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Initiation more books like this by Elisabeth Haich see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.94! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer more books like this by Isaac Bashevis Singer The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool," in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.70! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Independent People more books like this by Halldor Laxness A novel by an Icelandic Nobel Prizewinner, about a sheep farmer who wants only to be an independent man. When his daughter expresses her own needs for independence, the battle of wills that results is both harsh and poignant. Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction: "I finished its last chapters one late afternoon in Rome, seated in an all-but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.23! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family more books like this by Thomas Mann Mann's first novel was unusual for its time (1901) because, instead of focusing on a single character (as in the popular Bildüngsroman), it was a family saga, a chronicle of the Buddenbrook family over four generations. This large and multi-faceted family, its business successes combined with an intense interest in music and the arts, is shown at ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.80! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Desiree more books like this by Annemarie Selinko see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.23! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Castle more books like this by Franz Kafka Published posthumously, Kafka's novel--a major modernist/symbolist work--is about a surveyor, known only as K., who struggles with an absurd, implacable bureaucracy in an attempt to penetrate a dimly defined "castle." The characters in Kafka's allegory inhabit a strange world, comic and dreamlike, that has come to be known as "Kafkaesque." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.25! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Night of the Generals more books like this by Hans Helmut Kirst At the height of the occupation of Poland, a major in the German army begins an investigation into the horrific murder of a Nazi collaborator. His investigation leads him to suspect a general, but even if could figure out which one, generals are protected by the Reich and "above" the law. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Fiela's Child more books like this by Dalene Matthee Set in nineteenth-century rural Africa, "Fiela's Child" tells the gripping story of Fiela Komoetie and a white, three-year old child, Benjamin, whom she finds crying on her doorstep. For nine years Fiela raises Benjamin as one of her own children. But when census takers discover Benjamin, they send him to an illiterate white family of woodcutters ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The night in Lisbon more books like this by Erich Maria Remarque THE NIGHT IN LISBON With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor refugee gazes hungrily at the boat enroute to America, a man approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell. It is a harrowing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.53! \| first editions \| SVS
15	The pigeon more books like this by Patrick S'Uskind A Paris bank guard, with only five payments on the mortgage for his tiny attic room left, and his life's plan laid out ahead of him, opens his door one morning to find a pigeon on the landing. The crisis this engenders and the touching resolution that follows make this novella wonderfully comic and tender. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.24! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Cassandra : a novel and four essays more books like this by Christa Wolf In the tradition of such masterpieces of historical fiction as Mary Renault's "The King Must Die" East German writer Christa Wolf movingly retells the story of the fall of Troy - but from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, "Cassandra" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.68! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Lilies of the Field more books like this by William E Barrett One of the most beloved of modern classics returns with a beautiful new cover. The enchanting story of two unlikely friends, a black ex-GI and the head of a group of German nuns, The Lilies of the Field tells the story of their impossible dream--to build a chapel in the desert. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Family Moskat more books like this by Isaac Bashevis Singer The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the strata of this complex society were populated by powerfully individual personalities, and the whole community pulsated with life and vitality. The affairs of the patriarchal Meshulam Moskat and the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Enemies a Love Story more books like this by Isaac Bashevis Singer Herman Broder has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife, miraculously returned from the dead. Astonished by each new complication, and yet resigned to a life of evasion, Herman navigates a crowded, Yiddish New York with a sense of perpetually ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Shosha more books like this by Isaac Bashevis Singer An international bestseller and Singer's own favorite among his novels, "Shosha" is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at riches and a passport to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21	Cross of iron. more books like this by Willi Heinrich see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.05! \| first editions
22 view cover	Satan in Goray more books like this by Isaac Bashevis Singer As messianic zeal sweeps through medieval Poland, the Jews of Goray divide between those who, like the Rabbi, insist that no one can "force the end" and those who follow the messianic pretender Sabbatai Zevi. But as hysteria and depravity increase, it becomes clear that it is not the Messiah who has come to Goray. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The assault more books like this by Harry Mulisch A boy's parents are killed in the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands; this novel examines how this event affects the boy's life as he grows into adulthood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.72! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Flounder more books like this by Gunter Grass This 1978 novel, based loosely on Grimm's "The Fisherman and His Wife," takes place over the course of nine months, during which the wife of the narrator becomes pregnant and, at the end, gives birth. The Flounder is an advisor to the main characters who include many cooks (including a woman from a primitive tribe who has three breasts) in a story ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Group portrait with lady more books like this by Heinrich Boll This novel takes place during World War II. Leni Pfeiffer is German, and her secret lover is a Soviet prisoner of war; the relationship is both sustaining and threatening. Her story is told--to an anonymous author/investigator--by people ("informants") who know her, and a complete portrait emerges, not only of Leni but of German life under the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $63.67! \| first editions

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