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  • The Eternal Philistine

    Translated by Benjamin Dorvel ...
    by Odon Von Horvath ...
    Series series Neversink
    “At the World’s Fair in Paris I once lost my late husband and, just then, an elegant gentleman accosted me. As I look at him, he opens up his overcoat and hasn’t got anything on underneath. I only mention this in passing.”This never-before translated work by a major yet overlooked mid-20th century writer is a brutally funny look at the human comedy on the eve of Europe’s descent into Fascism.It ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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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

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  • Crossing the Borders of Time

    A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed

    by Leslie Maitland ...
    On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read ... Read more

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  • My German Question

    Growing Up in Nazi Berlin

    by Peter Gay ...
    "Not only a memoir, it's also a fierce reply to those who criticized German-Jewish assimilation and the tardiness of many families in leaving Germany" ( Publishers Weekly).In this poignant book, a renowned historian tells of his youth as an assimilated, anti-religious Jew in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1939—"the story," says Peter Gay, "of a poisoning and how I dealt with it." With his customary ... Read more

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  • Diary of a Man in Despair

    by Richard Evans, Friedrich Reck ...
    Translated by Paul Rubens ...
    Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed gentleman, deplored democracy, and rejected the modern world outright. To Reck the Nazis were ruthless revolutionaries in Gothic drag, and helpless as he was to counter the spell they had cast on the German people, he felt compelled to record the ... Read more

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  • I Will Bear Witness, Volume 1

    A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1933-1941

    by Victor Klemperer ...
    The publication of Victor Klemperer's secret diaries brings to light one of the most extraordinary documents of the Nazi period. "In its cool, lucid style and power of observation," said The New York Times, "it is the best written, most evocative, most observant record of daily life in the Third Reich." I Will Bear Witness is a work of literature as well as a revelation of the day-by-day horror of ... Read more

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  • Berlin Stories

    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    by Robert Walser ...
    A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in Berlin to join his older brother Karl, already an important stage-set designer, and immediately threw himself into the vibrant social and cultural life of the city. Berlin Stories collects his alternately celebratory, droll, and satirical observations on every aspect of the bustling German capital, from its ... Read more

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  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    by Joseph Roth ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
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    Translated by Joachim Neugroschel ...
    by Gregor von Rezzori ...
    The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraught episodes, he revisits his past, from adolescence to middle age, a period that coincides with the twentieth century’s ugliest years. Central to each episode is what ... Read more

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  • Journey to the Abyss

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    by Harry Kessler ...
    These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler—patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat—present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Époque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin ... Read more

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