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1	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 $2.22! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Critical and miscellaneous essays more books like this by Thomas Carlyle Contents: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter; state of German literature; life and writings of Werner; Goethe's Helena; Goethe; Burns; life of Heyne; German playwrights; Voltaire; Novalis; signs of the times; Jean Paul Friedrich Richter again; on history; Luther's Psalm; Schiller; Nibelugen Lied; German literature of the 14th and 15th centuries; Taylor's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust more books like this by Professor Paul De Man see all copies from $12.95! new only from $21.34! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Plays and essays more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Volkmar Sander (Editor), Martin Esslin (Foreword by) Six richly inventive pieces by the Swiss master of existentialist theater. Includes "Romulus the Great, 21 Points to the Physician," and "A Monster Lecture on Justice and Law." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought more books like this by Erich Heller (Preface by) Since first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, "The condition it describes is our condition, and I can think of no other modem book in which it is described so ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $17.94! \| first editions \| SVS
6	On writing and politics : 1967-1983 more books like this by Günter Grass Grass-novelist, poet, and graphic artist-is also a committed political activist. In this collection of essays, he takes on writing and politics with his accustomed verve and insight. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Confessions of a Closet Catholic more books like this by Sarah Littman Eleven-year-old Justine Silver follows her friend Mary Catherine, who's Catholic, in giving up something for Lent, so Justine gives up being Jewish. But when her beloved Bubbe suffers a stroke, Justine worries that her religious exploration is responsible. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Wandering; Notes and Sketches more books like this by Hermann Hesse see all copies from $9.95! first editions \| SVS
9	Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1, 1913-1926 more books like this by Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (Editor), Marcus Bullock (Editor) This is the first volume in a three volume series of English translations of the works of philosopher Walter Benjamin. This volume contains 79 essays, fragments, articles, and reviews, including the classic One-Way Street, written between 1913 and 1926. see all copies from $16.14! new only from $20.86! \| SVS
10	Karl Kraus: Apocalyptic Satirist Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna more books like this by Professor Edward Timms see all copies from $15.00! new only from $22.25! \| first editions
11	Selected Poems more books like this by Hans M Enzensberger Poems by one of Germany's most prominent social critics, including work from the last 30 years. see all copies from $8.54! new only from $16.00!
12	Nathan Der Weise more books like this by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing see all copies from $2.00! new only from $18.81! \| first editions
13	Inscribing the Other more books like this by Sander L Gilman Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. In thirteen probing, provocative essays Sander L. Gilman reinterprets their writing as ... see all copies from $2.66! new only from $2.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust more books like this by Professor Ernestine Schlant Focusing on individual authors from Heinrich Boll to Gunther Grass, Hermann Lenz to Peter Schneider, The Language of Silence offers an analysis of West German literature as it tries to come to terms with the Holocaust and its impact on postwar West German society. Exploring postwar literature as the barometer of Germany's unconsciously held values ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Era of German Expressionism more books like this by Paul Raabe see all copies from $3.67! new only from $9.83! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Cambridge History of German Literature more books like this by Helen Watanabe-O'kelly (Editor) A history of German literature to 1990, written from a post-Reunification standpoint. see all copies from $23.00! new only from $38.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A New History of German Literature more books like this by Judith Ryan (Editor), David E Wellbery The revolutionary spirit that animates the culture of the Germans has been alive for at least twelve centuries, far longer than the dramatically fragmented and reshaped political entity known as Germany. German culture has been central to Europe, and it has contributed the transforming spirit of Lutheran religion, the technology of printing as a ... see all copies from $31.14! new only from $33.48! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Critical Essays more books like this by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Bruce Armstrong (Editor), Reinhold Grimm (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	German Romanticism and Its Institutions more books like this by Theodore Ziolkowski Using an illuminating method that challenges the popular notion of Romanticism as aesthetic escapism, Theodore Ziolkowski explores five institutions--mining, law, madhouses, universities, and museums--that provide the socio-historical context for German Romantic culture. He shows how German writers and thinkers helped to shape these five ... see all copies from $57.00! new only from $57.00! \| SVS
20	Beyond Theory: Eighteenth-Century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony more books like this by Benjamin Bennett A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book for 1995" In a book of rare breadth of vision, Benjamin Bennett offers a new interpretation of the eighteenth century. He provides nuanced re-evaluations of Goethe, Herder, Hölderlin, Kleist, Lessing, Schiller, and Kant, as well as many other poets and philosophers. He seeks to trace the process by which ... see all copies from $5.93! new only from $11.50! \| first editions
21	A history of German literature. more books like this by John George Robertson see all copies from $2.82! first editions
22 view cover	The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe more books like this by Robert J Richards see all copies from $12.99! new only from $16.25! \| SVS
23	The Oxford Companion to German Literature more books like this by Henry Garland (Editor), Mary Garland (Editor) Hailed upon its publication a decade ago as "an impressive work" (Library Journal) and "a boon to dabblers in German literature who up to now have had to make do without a suitable frame of reference" (The Economist), The Oxford Companion to German Literature has now been thoroughly revised and updated. Mary Garland has added many new entries on ... see all copies from $5.61! new only from $78.09!
24	Irrungen, Wirrungen more books like this by Fontane see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50!
25	Daten deutscher Dichtung : chronologischer Abriss der deutschen Literaturgeschichte more books like this by Herbert A. Frenzel, Elisabeth Frenzel see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!

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