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  • The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    The City Without Jews! It sounds almost like a jest, a paradox. The cosmopolitan will smile at the title; yet both Jews and Christians will prick up their ears and wonder: “Does such a thing exist?” Some will consider this book merely a clever fantasy. Still, the reading of it will make them feel that The City Without Jews is symptomatic of our time. One fine day a law is passed in the great city, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City Without Jews A Novel Of Our Time

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time by Hugo Bettauer is a provocative and prescient work of social commentary that imagines a world stripped of its Jewish population, exploring the cultural, economic, and moral consequences of intolerance and exclusion. This audiobook offers listeners a striking blend of narrative fiction and powerful reflection on prejudice, society, and human nature ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blue Stain

    A Novel of a Racial Outcast

    by Hugo Bettauer, Kenneth R. Janken ...
    Translated by Peter Hoeyng, Chauncey J. Mellor ...
    Hugo Bettauer's The Blue Stain, a novel of racial mixing and "passing," starts and ends in Georgia but also takes the reader to Vienna and New York. First published in 1922, the novel tells the story of Carletto, son of a white European academic and an African American daughter of former slaves, who, having passed as white in Europe and fled to America after losing his fortune, resists being seen ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The City Without Jews

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    A prophetic satirical novel depicting the social and economic consequences of antisemitism. ... Read more

    $1.37 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The City Without Jews

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    Set in a Vienna consumed by scapegoating, The City Without Jews is a savage political satire that imagines the "liberation" of Austria through the expulsion of its Jewish citizens. When Chancellor Dr. Schwertfeger and his allies turn anti-Semitism into state policy, the city erupts in triumph, panic, hypocrisy, and bureaucratic cruelty, exposing how prejudice can be dressed up as patriotism, logic ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The City Without Jews A Novel of our Time

    A Provocative Political Satire on Anti-Semitism and Social Injustice

    by Hugo Bettauer ...
    The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time by Hugo Bettauer is a bold and satirical exploration of prejudice, intolerance, and the consequences of societal exclusion. Set in a city that expels its Jewish population, the novel examines the social, economic, and moral impacts of discrimination, highlighting the dangers of bigotry and the importance of diversity. Bettauer’s sharp wit and keen ... Read more

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  • They Thought They Were Free

    The Germans, 1933–45

    by Milton Mayer, Richard J. Evans ...
    National Book Award Finalist: Never before has the mentality of the average German under the Nazi regime been made as intelligible to the outsider." — The New York TImesThey Thought They Were Free is an eloquent and provocative examination of the development of fascism in Germany. Milton Mayer's book is a study of ten Germans and their lives from 1933-45, based on interviews he conducted after the ... Read more

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  • The World of Yesterday

    Enriched edition. A Lyrical Memoir of Pre-War Europe, the Austro-Hungarian Cultural World, and Its Shattering

    by Stefan Zweig ...
    In "The World of Yesterday," Stefan Zweig provides an evocative memoir that captures the essence of pre-World War I Europe, blending autobiography with incisive historical analysis. Written in a lyrical prose style that reflects his deep emotional engagement with his subject, this work serves as a poignant exploration of the cultural and intellectual milieu of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Zweig's ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reunion

    by Fred Uhlman ...
    Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianReunion is a little-known but perfect novel with fans including Ian McEwan, John Boyne, Deborah Moggach, David Nicholls, Meg Rosoff and Sarah Perry.On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is stirred by the arrival of a newcomer. Middle-class Hans is intrigued by the aristocratic new boy, Konradin, and before long they become best ... 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

    $12.99 CAD

  • Dream Story

    by Arthur Schnitzler ...
    Translated by J.M.Q. Davies ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • 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

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