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  • The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

    Translated by Burton Pike ...
    Series series German and Austrian Literature
    First published in 1910, Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is one the first great modernist novels, the account of poet-aspirant Brigge in his exploration of poetic individuality and his reflections on the experience of time as death approaches.A young man named Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris while his belongings rot in storage. Every person he sees seems to carry ... Read more

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  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    Translated by Burton Pike ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A major work of German romanticism in a translation that is acknowledged as the definitive English language version. The Vintage Classics edition also includes NOVELLA, Goethe's poetic vision of an idyllic pastoral society. ... Read more

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    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

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  • Nausea

    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Sartre's greatest novel — and existentialism's key text — now introduced by James Wood.Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressionistic, diary form he ruthlessly catalogs his every feeling and sensation. His thoughts culminate in a pervasive, overpowering feeling of nausea which “spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the ... Read more

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  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. GraylingNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the ... Read more

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  • Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Michael Henry Heim ...
    The world-famous masterpiece about a writer's obsessive pursuit of forbidden love by a Nobel Prize laureate.Translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of ... Read more

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  • Mountains of Spices

    An allegory of the nine spices mentioned in Song of Solomon compared with the nine fruits of the Spirit. ... Read more

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  • The Fall

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR • One of the most widely read novels of all time—from one of the best-known writers of all time—about a lawyer from Paris who brilliantly illuminates the human condition.Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality. ... Read more

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  • The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    **22 classic short stories and novellas of love and death, betrayal and hope—now collected for the first time in this beautiful 720-page volume!“One of the masters of the short story.” —Guardian**In this magnificent collection of Stefan Zweig’s short stories, the very best and worst of human nature is captured with sharp observation, understanding, and vivid empathy. Ranging from love and death to ... Read more

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  • Death In Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by David Luke ...
    A tale of genius in which Thomas Mann explores the artist's relation to life.First published in 1912, Death in Venice tells how Gustave von Aschenbach, a writer utterly absorbed in his work, arrives in Venice as the result of a 'youthfully ardent thirst for distant scenes', and meets a young boy by whose beauty he becomes obsessed. His pitiful pursuit of the object of his affection and its ... Read more

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  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    You only find true love once.When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte, it seems as though he is in paradise. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates Werther's adoration and encourages his friendship. She can never return his love.Broken-hearted, he leaves her home in the country, trying to escape his own desire. But when he receives a ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Poet

    Translated, with an Introduction and Commentary, by Reginald Snell

    Translated by Reginald Snell ...
    The ten letters collected here are arguably the most famous and beloved letters of our century. Written when Rainer Maria Rilke was himself still a young man with most of his greatest work before him, they are addressed to a student who had sent Rilke some of his work, asking for advice about becoming a writer. The two never met, but over a period of several years Rilke wrote him these ten letters ... Read more

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