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  • The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • E.T.A. Hoffmann

    by Professor Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series Book 125 - Critical Lives
    E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) is celebrated for his supernatural fiction such as 'The Sandman' as well as his musical achievements, notably the opera Undine. This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to Hoffmann as a Romantic writer, composer and public figure. It follows his life as a lawyer, theatre director and senior judge in Berlin, where he clashed with authorities over their ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • 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

    $9.59 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Goethe

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • A Case of Hysteria

    (Dora)

    by Sigmund Freud, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old 'Dora' was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide; as Freud's enquiries deepened, he ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Kafka

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Friedrich Nietzsche

    by Professor Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series Book 108 - Critical Lives
    In this concise yet comprehensive critical biography, Ritchie Robertson examines the work of Friedrich Nietzsche within the context of his life. The book traces Nietzsche’s development from outstanding classical scholar to cultural critic, who measured Imperial Germany by the standards of ancient Greece. It follows him thence to prophet (in the persona of Zarathustra) and savage polemicist against ... Read more

    $22.19 CAD

  • Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    This is a study of mock-epic poetry in English, French, and German from the 1720s to the 1840s. While mock-heroic poetry is a parodistic counterpart to serious epic, mock-epic poetry starts by parodying epic but moves on to much wider and richer literary explorations; it relies heavily on intertextual allusion to other works, on narratorial irony, on the sympathetic and sometimes libertine ... Read more

    $89.59 CAD

  • The Magic Mountain

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Simon Pare ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a portrait of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. The novel recounts how an apparently simple North German engineer, ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

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  • Conversations with Goethe

    by Johann Peter Eckermann ...
    Translated by Allan Blunden ...
    A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' NietzscheBy the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most famous people in the world. In 1823 he became friend and mentor to the young writer Johann Eckermann, who, for the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Doctor Faustus

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Why must I feel that almost all--no, all--of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?' Adrian Leverkühn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthrough from traditional art to extreme modernism and success. Creative and brilliant, he will stop at nothing to achieve greatness. Thomas Mann wrote Doctor Faustus (1947) in American exile during and ... Read more

    $11.89 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Heine

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series Book 5 - Jewish Thinkers
    Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is one of Germany's greatest writers. His agile mind and brilliant wit expressed themselves in lyrical and satirical poetry, travel writing, fiction, and essays on literature, art, politics, philosophy and history. He was a biting satirist, and a perceptive commentator on the world around him. One of his admirers, Friedrich Nietzsche, said of him: 'he possessed that ... Read more

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