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The peerless translations of this haunted—and haunting—Holocaust poet, including ten new poems and an illuminating essay by the translator. Paul Celan is one the twentieth century's most essential poets, and twenty-two years after its publication, Poems of Paul Celan continues to be the single truest access for English-speakers to this poet's work. This new edition adds ten more poems and a more..

Describes the life of a deer in the forest as he grows into a beautiful stag. more..

Peter, a fifteen-year-old Australian boy, struggles to cope with the pressures of his peers, the macho expectations of his society, his emerging sexual feelings, and his unwilling attraction to the gay friend of his older brother. more..

This collection moves from medieval lyrics and ballads to the Protestant hymns of the 16th century, to the great explosion of German literature with Goethe and Schiller, taking in the isolated genius of Hoelderin, and then on to late 19th-century naturalism, the post-World War I expressionists, and several notable poets in this century, including Loerke and Bertolt Brecht. Demonstrating the more..

Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmann’s two celebrated books of poetry, as well as early and late poems not collected in book form, over 100 of them appearing in English for the first time, as well as 25 poems never before published in German. Bachmann is considered one of the most important poets to emerge in postwar German letters, and this volume represents the more..

No poem in German literature is so well known and studied in Germany and Europe as the 800-year-old Das Nibelungenlied. In the English-speaking world, however, the poem has remained little known, languishing without an adequate translation. This wonderful new translation by eminent translator Burton Raffel brings the epic poem to life in English for the first time, rendering it in more..

Michael Hamburger has been translating the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) for over half a century. This lifelong preoccupation culminates in this fourth bilingual edition, incorporating revisions, new translations and other supplementary material. It is the classic English edition of Hölderlin's poetry for our age. more..

Der Roman Radetzkymarsch von Joesph Roth erschien 1932 und wurde zu dem wohl berühmtesten Werk des österreichischen Schriftstellers.

In Form einer drei Generationen umspannenden Familiengeschichte beschreibt Roth den Zerfall der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. Der Titel des Romans bezieht sich auf den gleichnamigen Marsch von Johann Strauß (Vater) aus dem Jahr 1848 (siehe more..