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  • Fräulein Else

    by Arthur Schnitzler ...
    Translated by F.H. Lyon ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Son of a Star

    by Poul Borchsenius ...
    Translated by F.H. Lyon ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1960, and the first of three volumes on the history of the Jews during the dispersal, this book covers briefly the period from the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in the year 70 down to Hadrian’s suppression of Simeon’s insurrection in 135. It sketches the political and religious background to the conflict between the Jewish and Graeco-Roman cultures, and the final ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

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  • The Passenger

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    by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz ...
    Translated by Philip Boehm ...
    **A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FOR THE GUARDIAN * FINANCIAL TIMES * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT * MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE * THE TIMESHailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany**Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his ... Read more

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  • Buddenbrooks

    The Decline of a Family

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Grand Hotel

    by Vicki Baum, Margot Bettauer Dembo ...
    Translated by Basil Creighton ...
    A luxury hotel in 1920s Berlin is a microcosm of modern society in this classic that inspired a hit Broadway musical and the classic film starring Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, and John Barrymore.“Prefigures Downtown Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs by examining multiple characters from different classes.” —Shelf AwarenessThe luxury Grand Hotel is a revolving door for the stray souls of 1920s Berlin. ... Read more

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  • Three Comrades

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    by Erich Maria Remarque ...
    Translated by Arthur Wesley Wheen ...
    From the acclaimed author of All Quiet on the Western Front comes Three Comrades, a harrowing novel that follows a group of friends as they cope with upheaval in Germany between World Wars I and II.The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and ... Read more

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  • Who Killed Gatton?

    An Inspector Head Mystery

    by E. Charles Vivian ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Superintendent Wadden is spending his day off hunting out a likely spot for the tomato plantation he means to establish during his impending retirement. But his day off comes to an abrupt end when the area he is looking to purchase turns out to contain a highly secret experimental aircraft - and the corpse of Harry Gatton, its murdered pilot. What could such a plane possibly be doing in ... Read more

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  • Love in Amsterdam

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    by Nicolas Freeling ...
    Series series Van der Valk
    In this classic mystery, a Dutch police detective investigates a woman's murder with assistance from the man accused of killing her.A woman, Elsa, is brutally murdered in her Amsterdam apartment. Her ex-lover, Martin, is seen outside the building around the time of the crime. The witness who saw him? A policeman.It looks like a straightforward case—but police inspector Van der Valk is not ... Read more

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  • I'm Not Stiller

    by Max Frisch ...
    The classic German novel with a narrator as "treacherous, evasive and compelling as an Edgar Allan Poe murderer or a Raymond Chandler detective" ( The New York Times).The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother, and mistress recognize him and call him by his name, Anatol Ludwig Stiller. But he rejects them, repeatedly insisting that he's not Stiller. Could he ... Read more

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  • Effi Briest

    by Theodor Fontane, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.' Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He takes her from her home to a remote provincial town on the Baltic coast of Prussia where she is isolated, bored, and prey to superstitious fears. She drifts into a half-hearted affair with a manipulative, ... Read more

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  • White Stallion of Lipizza

    by Marguerite Henry ...
    Illustrated by Wesley Dennis ...
    The magnificent Lipizzan stallions of Vienna come to life as never before in this exciting story from Newbery Award–winning author Marguerite Henry, back in print by popular demand.A young boy named Hans dreams of one day working with the famed stallions of Lipizza. But coming from a family of bakers, Hans is discouraged from ever becoming a rider. That is, until the day he is invited to watch the ... Read more

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  • Effi Briest

    by Theodor Fontane ...
    Effi Briest, the classic German realist novel, follows a young woman through her life and marriage. She is an innocent when she is married to the social climbing Instetten, and longs for wordly things. When she is left alone by her husband, who is pursuing his political career, she succumbs to the flattery of another man. Her adultery has wide and tragic consequences on the rest of her life. ... Read more

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