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  • The Storyteller

    Tales out of Loneliness

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short storiesThe Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street and The Arcades Project. His stories revel in the erotic tensions of city life, cross the threshold between rational ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 1913

    The Year Before the Storm

    by Florian Illies ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer).“A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post).**It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Letters to a Young Poet

    by Rainer Maria Rilke, Charlie Louth ...
    Translated by Charlie Louth ...
    At the start of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a series of letters to a young officer cadet, advising him on writing, love, sex, suffering and the nature of advice itself; these profound and lyrical letters have since become hugely influential for writers and artists of all kinds. This book also contains the 'Letter from a Young Worker', a striking polemic against Christianity ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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  • Diaries, 1910-1923

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **The diaries of the acclaimed author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—provide a penetrating look into Prague and the life and dreams of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a look into Kafka’s accounts of his ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for What I Saw, a book that has become a classic with five hardcover printings. Glowingly reviewed, What I Saw introduces a new generation to the genius of this tortured author with its ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Diaries of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Ross Benjamin ...
    Series series The Schocken Kafka Library
    **A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.“An invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times**An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Joyce Crick ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Rilke and Andreas-Salomé

    A Love Story in Letters

    by Rainer Maria Rilke, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Edward Snow, Michael Winkler ...
    Translated by Edward Snow, Michael Winkler ...
    "Immensely readable...a significant piece of scholarship."—Fred Volkmer, New York SunHe would become one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; she a muse of Europe's fin-de-siècle thinkers and artists. In this collection of letters, a finalist for the PEN USA translation award, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé, a writer and intellectual fourteen years his senior, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Posthumous Papers of a Living Author

    by Robert Musil ...
    Translated by Peter Wortsman ...
    This collection of exploratory pieces, short stories, and reflections was originally published in Zurich in 1936. It was the last volume Robert Musil published before his sudden death in 1942. Musil had begun to fathom the impossibility of com- pleting his monumental masterpiece The Man Without Qualities and this volume reveals a radically different aspect of his work. Musil observes a fly’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1913

    by Max Brod ...
    This book contains the diaries of the well-known Franz Kafka during the period 1910-1913, and would make a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone who is a fan of his works. ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by M. D. Herter Norton ...
    Rilke's timeless letters about poetry, sensitive observation, and the complicated workings of the human heart.Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

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