Books, Literature & Fiction, Classics, German

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Franz Kafka
The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
by Schocken (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1998-08-25)

Franz Kafka
The Complete Stories
by Schocken (Paperback) (Release Date: 1995-11-14)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Russell (Introduction) Crofts
Lady Audley's Secret
by Penguin Classics (Kindle Edition) (Release Date: 2007-04-04)

Lady Audley-s Secret epitomized the scandalous and irresistible "sensation" fiction of the period and established Braddon as the doyenne of the genre. Lady Audley, a beautiful woman with a mysterious past, serves as a commentary on the rise of the middle class and the consumer culture, and her fate reflects the public-s fascination with psychological theories about the nature of identity and the definition of madness.

Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis and Other Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Penguin Classics (Paperback)

For the 125th anniversary of Kafka’s birth, an astonishing new translation of his best-known stories, in a spectacular graphic package For all his fame, Franz Kafka published only a small number of stories in his lifetime. This new translation of those stories, by Michael Hofmann, one of the most respected German-to-English translators at work today, makes Kafka’s best-known works available to a new generation of readers. Metamorphosis gives full expression to the breadth of Kafka’s literary vision and the extraordinary depth of his imagination.

Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
by Knopf (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1995-10-17)

A vast intellectual drama of the forces that play upon modern man, The Magic Mountain is set in a sanitorium in the Swiss Alps--a community organized with exclusive reference to ill health, and a symbol of the diseased society of Europe before 1914.

Franz Kafka
The Castle (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Everyman's Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1992-11-03)

Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
by Holt Paperbacks (Paperback)

The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author’s last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that uses all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the Ages. The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.This edition features a Foreword by Theodore Ziolkowski that places the book in the full context of Hesse’s thought.

Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
by Modern Library (Kindle Edition) (Release Date: 2004-02-17)

A Major New TranslationFor more than two centuries the very title of this book has evoked the sensitivity of youth, the suffering of the artist, the idea of a hero too full of love to live. When it was first published in Germany, in 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther created a sensation. Banned and condemned but embraced—especially by the young—it has continued to captivate.Now Burton Pike’s startlingly new translation expresses as never before all the anguish, ideas, and ardor of this seminal, iconic novel. And his Introduction reveals both Goethe’s inspirations and his influence—on works ranging from Madame Bovary to Frankenstein and beyond.Here is the classic story of Werther, a young man “seeking the infinite” in an art he cannot master and a woman he cannot have—the prototype of the Romantic hero in a work that anticipated the Romantic Age. Here is a bold new look at a masterpiece that has changed lives and, like its beloved hero, will never grow old.From the ...

Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf (Henry Holt Classic)
by Henry Holt & Co (Hardcover)

With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesses best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literatures most poetic evocations of the souls journey to liberationHarry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal Magic TheaterFor Madmen Only!Originally published in English in 1929, Steppenwolf s wisdom continues to speak to our souls and marks it as a classic of modern literature.

Franz Kafka
The Trial (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Everyman's Library (Hardcover) (Release Date: 1992-06-30)

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