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A collection of the work of Uwe Johnson. It includes "Speculations about Jakob", a Faulknerian novel; selections from "Anniversaries: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; Anniversaries II: From the Life of Gesine Cresspahl"; and the writer's essay on the "Anniversaries".
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 title features the plays "Before Daybreak", "The Weavers", "The Beaver Coat", "Vor Sonnenaufgang", "Die Weber", and "Der Biberpelz."
This text, part of the "German Library" series, provides an anthology of hymns and songs from the 16th century to the modern day. The songs are arranged in themes, including religious and children's songs. German and English texts are presented on facing pages, in addition to musical scores.
An illustrative selection of German dramas from the baroque age and the early Enlightenment (i.e. prior to Lessing), by Sachs, Gryphius, Schlegel, and others. Foreword by Martin Esslin. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
This text forms part of the "German Library" series, which discusses major works of German literature and thought from medieval times to the present. It is a collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers.
Foreword by G├╝nter GrassThis anthology gives a sense of the broad range of prose writing, the many interests of the seventeenth century intellectual, a rich diversity of genres, fictions and non-fictions.
The four plays presented here, two newly translated for this edition, are The Broken Pitcher, Amphitryon, Penthesilea, and Prince Frederick of Homburg. As E.L. Docotorow says, ''a Kleist play may be set in ancient Greece, in Holland, or in seventeenth century Prussia, but the fortress of consciousness is where the action occurs.''
Including more than 90 excerpts and by some 50 German women writers, this collection is organized in five parts: education for girls and women, women and work, women and politics, issues of gender, and women in art and literature.
This volume contains 22 stories and novellas, many appearing in English for the first time. Among the authors represented are Peter Handke, Alfred Andersch, Stefan Andres, Jurgen Becker, Ulla Merkewicz, Elisabeth Borchers, Gisela Elsner and Max von der Grun.
Gathers selections from letters, essays, criticism, and autobiographies by Telemann, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schuman, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, and Mahler.
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