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How German Is It

By: Abish, Walter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2011

Seller ID: 111184

ISBN: 0811207765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The question How German Is It underlies the conduct and actions of the characters in Walter Abish's novel, an icy panorama of contemporary Germany, in which the tradition of order and obedience, the patrimony of the saber and the castle on the Rhine, give way to the present, indiscriminate fascination with all things American. On his return from Paris to his home city of W rtenburg, Ulrich Hargenau, whose father was executed for his involvement in the 1944 plot against Hitler, is compelled to ask himself, "How German am l?"--as he compares his own recent attempt to save his life, and his wife ...
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How German Is It

By: Abish, Walter

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Nov-11

Seller ID: 459140

ISBN: 811207765

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ghosts

By: Aira, Cesar

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 441318

ISBN: 811217426

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nightwood

By: Barnes, Djuna

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 473705

ISBN: 0811216713

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.

The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction--there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son ...
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Flowers of Evil

By: Baudelaire, Charles

Price: $6.50

Publisher: November 2015

Seller ID: 473606

ISBN: 0811211177

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to Baudelaire's full poetic range. In compiling their classic, bilingual edition of The Flowers of Evil, the late Marthiel and Jackson Mathews chose from the work of forty-one translators to create a collection that is "a commentary on the present state of the art of translation." The Mathews' volume is a poets' homage to Baudelaire as well. Among...
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Waiting for Godot: A tragicomedy in two acts

By: Beckett, Samuel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: June 2012

Seller ID: 363613

ISBN: E33

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bernard Shaw

By: Bently, Eric

Price: $2.00

Seller ID: 333300

ISBN: 120SHAW

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Skating Rink

By: Bolano, Robert

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Jul-16

Seller ID: 414714

ISBN: 811217132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Man Outside

By: Borchert, Wolfgang

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 390139

ISBN: NDP319

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (English and Spanish Edition)

By: Borges, Jorge Luis

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New Directions: January 1964

Seller ID: 471528

ISBN: 0811200124

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Life Being The Best & Other Stories

By: Boyle, Kay

Price: $4.00

Publisher: July 2010

Seller ID: 101715

ISBN: 0811210537

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Thirteen stories deal with three sisters, a young woman's dashed hopes, failed love, life's dissatisfactions, missed opportunities, and the search for identity.
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Guignol's Band

By: Celine, Louis Ferdinand

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2015

Seller ID: 469807

ISBN: 0811200183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes, pawnbrokers and magicians, policemen and arsonists. He sees social and physiological decomposition as these processes unfold along parallel lines of development. The illusions of existence are nakedly exposed. The narrative erupts in C line's characteristic elliptical style. His splintered sentences and scatology reflect his fury at the fragmentation of experience and at his own impotence in the face of i...
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Windows

By: Creeley, Robert

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 364919

ISBN: 0811211231

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Because I Was Flesh

By: Dahlberg, Edward

Price: $6.00

Publisher: July 2013

Seller ID: 244111

ISBN: 08112002991

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Edward Dahlberg Reader

By: Dahlberg, Edward

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 389695

ISBN: NDP246

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Because I Was Flesh: The Autobiography of Edward Dahlberg

By: Dahlberg, Edward

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New Directions: January 1967

Seller ID: 471792

ISBN: 0811200299

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Because I Was Flesh is an authentic record from the inferno of modern city life, and a testament of American experience. Lizzie Dahlberg, separated from a worthless husband, works as a lady barber to keep herself and her son in shabby respectability amid the vice and brutality of Kansas City in the early 1900's. Her constant objective: to acquire a new husband who can give her security and help educate the child. She is attractive to men, but fate never brings her a good one. One suitor makes her put the boy in an orphanage--years of torment that are brilliantly described--and then be...
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No Longer Human

By: Dazai, Osamu

Price: $7.50

Publisher: December 2012

Seller ID: 471637

ISBN: 0811204812

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.
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Quite Early One Morning

By: Dylan Thomas

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New Directions: Jan-60

Seller ID: 417364

ISBN: B00G7SUIA6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Seven Types of Ambiguity

By: Empson, William

Price: $7.00

Seller ID: 473255

ISBN: 081120037X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Revised twice since it first appeared, it has remained one of the most widely read and quoted works of literary analysis. Ambiguity, according to Empson, includes "any verbal nuance, however slight, which gives room for alternative reactions to the same piece of language." From this definition, broad enough by his own admission sometimes to see "stretched absurdly far," he launches into a brilliant discussion, under seven classifications of differing complexity and depth, of such works, among others, as Shakespeare's plays and the poetry of Chaucer, Donne, Marvell, Pope, Wordsworth, Gerard Man...
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Starting from San Francisco

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 339174

ISBN: NDP220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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