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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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Paris Spleen

By: Baudelaire, Charles

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 96901

ISBN: 0811200078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age and one of...
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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: July 2016

Seller ID: 414714

ISBN: 0811217132

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A complex book, The Skating Rink's short chapters are skillfully broken off with questions to maintain the narrative tension: Who was murdered? Who was the murderer? Will the murderer be caught? All of these questions are answered, and yet The Skating Rink is not fundamentally a crime novel, or not exclusively; it's also about political corruption, sex, the experience of immigration, and frustrated passion. And it's an atmospheric chronicle of one summer season in a seaside town, with its vacationers, its drifters, its businessmen, bureaucrats and social worker...
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Man Outside

By: Borchert, Wolfgang

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 390139

ISBN: NDP319

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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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

Starting from San Francisco

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 339174

ISBN: NDP220

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Her

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 392069

ISBN: 0811200426

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Being thus very far from the kind of novels produced by Ferlinghetti's immediate contemporaries (whether Beat or academic) this book has met with little but bafflement among American critics. With well over 50,000 now in print Her nevertheless continues to make its own way.
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Wild Dreams of a New Beginning

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New Directions: December 1988

Seller ID: 408371

ISBN: 0811210758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Wild Dreams of a New Beginning brings together two acclaimed poetry volumes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of our "ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist).

Who Are We Now? (1976), the first half of Wild Dreams, takes a long poetic look at the cultural fallout of a more radical time. This probing of the changes in the American psyche through the 1970s is carried forward in the second part, Landscapes of Living & Dying (1979)--a work originally hailed by Library Journal as "Ferlinghetti's strongest work since his 1957 A Coney ...
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Secret Meaning of Things

By: Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 408849

ISBN: NDP268

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Five Novels

By: Firbank, Ronald

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 246730

ISBN: 0811207994

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Firbank, Five Novels. Part high-camp comedy of manners and part fairy tale.
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Gandhi on Non-Violence: A Selection From the Writings of Mahatma Gandi

By: Gandhi/Merton, Thomas

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 395526

ISBN: 0811200973

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this book, Merton has selected the basic statements of principle and interpretation which make up Gandhi's philosophy of non-violence (AHIMSA) and non-violent action (SATYAGRAHA). The Gandhi text follows that established by the Navaijivan Trust with sections dealing with Principles of non-violence, Non-violence, true and false, Spiritual dimensions of non-violence. The political scope of non-violence, and The purity of non-violence.
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Prisoner of Love (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Genet, Jean,Bray, Barbara,(Introducer), Ahdaf Soueif

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NYRB Classics: January 2003

Seller ID: 419448

ISBN: 1590170288

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For G...
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Goethe's Faust: Part 1: A New American Version (Pt. 1)

By: Goethe/MacIntyre

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 398282

ISBN: 0811200566

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech."
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H. D.: Selected Poems

By: H.D.

Price: $20.00

Seller ID: 393914

ISBN: 0811210650

Binding: Hardcover

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Death Sleep & The Traveler

By: Hawkes, John

Price: $4.00

Publisher: April 2012

Seller ID: 88263

ISBN: 081120569X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. "It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work," writes the novelist-critic Jonathan Baumbach, "delicate, erotic, dreamlike--in all, a luminous novel by the richest prose stylist in American letters since Faulkner....
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