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  • The Enlightenment

    The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    A magisterial work of intellectual history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

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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

    $10.99 USD

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  • 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

    $7.99 USD

  • The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka, Joyce Crick, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin.' With a bewildering blend of the everyday and the fantastical, Kafka thus begins his most famous short story, The Metamorphosis. A commercial traveller is unexpectedly freed from his dreary job by his inexplicable transformation into an insect, which drastically alters his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • 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

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD

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  • The Buddenbrooks

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Translated by Mike Mitchell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that all this could not last much longer, that his demise was imminent.' The Buddenbrooks (1900) was Thomas Mann's first major success. It draws on his own family history and on his vivid memories of growing up in the commercial town of Lübeck in North Germany. The narrative traces the decline of a wealthy, ... Read more

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  • A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

    by Franz Kafka, Ritchie Robertson ...
    Translated by Joyce Crick ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part ... Read more

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  • 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

    $17.99 USD

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  • 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

    $71.99 USD

  • 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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