The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1798

Legouis, Emile

Biographies & Memoirs

Libris Ltd

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: Selected Poetry

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

He Was a German: A Biography of Ernst Toller

Dove, Richard

The German Idea: Four English Writers and the Reception of German Thought, 1800-1860

Ashton, Rosemary D.

The German novelist Hans Fallada (1893-1947), whose most famous work, Little Man - What Now?, became the last bestseller of the Weimar Republic, was one of the very few liberal humanist writers to remain in Germany throughout the Nazi era. Fallada's work is still widely read in Germany today. It provides an unusually honest record of the country's crisis and decline after the First World War; Fallada always stands alongside his fictional characters, never in judgement over them. He also described his own mortal struggle against the morphine and cocaine addiction which began in his youth. His life throws a new, sometimes surprising light on Germany. From his comfortable but psychologically disturbed middle-class upbringing, and his years of active delinquency (leading to several periods in asylums and prisons), through his private happiness and public success in the late Weimar years, to the often self-inflicted humiliations of the Third Reich period and his self-destructive last years, Fallada hardly stopped writing and bearing witness.

More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada

Williams, Jenny

Arts & Literature

Poems and Prose

Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was an Austrian poet, born in Salzburg. His work has up until now only been available in anthologies and short selections. This volume contains all his major poetic work including the prose poetry and some prose pieces. Trakl's models were Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine. His admirers include Rilke, Kafka, Karl Kraus, and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who was one of his patrons. This is a bilingual edition with German/English on facing pages.

Trakl, Georg

209p brown paperback, from a Cambridge college library with stamp on top edge and barcode to endpaper, spine sunned and creased, some shelfwear, pages with few pencil marks, binding still firm, very good condition

Heinrich Heine: Poetry & Politics

Reeves, Nigel

Most studies of exiles and emigres from Nazi Germany have concerned the lives of outstanding scientists and scholars in various fields. This book is based on in-depth interviews with 34 men and women who had to flee from Germany and came to Britain between 1933 and 1940, focusing on ordinary people. Special attention is given to the social, educational and cultural backgrounds of the exiles, all of which were to play a crucial role in their new lives. Attention is also given to the historical and personal circumstances of their enforced departure, including family members who voluntarily or for other reasons stayed behind, often to perish ultimately in the Holocaust.

Changing Countries: The Experience and Achievement of German-Speaking Exiles from Hitler in Britain, 1933 to Today

History

Europe

On first reading these seven stories, about contagious disease, social revolt, unhappy love, and the criminally insane, their eventual publisher expressed fears that the grim nature of their subjects would put off potential readers. Georg Heym replied that his subjects had chosen him as much as he had chosen them. This special, compulsive relationship with his material is reflected in the mesmeric, spellbinding character of the stories which have become classics of German Expressionist prose, the equivalent in their violent imagery of the Expressionist paintings of the time, prefiguring the great era of Expressionist film that was to follow. On publication they were compared to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and the prose pieces of Baudelaire, and they have been acclaimed ever since for their power and formal beauty.

The Thief and Other Stories

Heym, Georg

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