Books in the German Library series

Here are five important modern German dramas: "Farmyard" by Franz Xaver Kroetz; "Offending the Audience" by Peter Handke; "Eve of Retirement" by Thomas Bernhard; "Big and Little" by Both Strauss; and "Clara S." by Elfriede Jellinek.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plays Egmont, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso. This volume will serve to illustrate the range of Goethe's long and unparalleled career.

Heroic poetry from the great epics of German literature. Includes Jungere Hildebrandslied, The Battle of Ravenna, Bitterolf and Dietlieb, and The Rose Garden (Version A).

This volume includes the abridged New York stage version of Hocchuth''s controversial The Deputy, which is about Pope Pius XII''s failure to speak out against Nazi atrocities; In the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kipphardt; and two plays by Mnller: Hamletmachine and Manser.

Gathers lyric poems, satire, and essays about the German countryside and literature, by the nineteenth-century romantic poet.

This book contains key writings by early 20th century German playwrights, which are the source of Expressionist art both in literature and film, including Georg Kaiser, Gottfried Benn and Carl Sternheim.

This title features the plays "Before Daybreak", "The Weavers", "The Beaver Coat", "Vor Sonnenaufgang", "Die Weber", and "Der Biberpelz."

Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice", is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio.