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  • Duino Elegies

    A New and Complete Translation

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Alfred Corn ...
    A new translation of Rilke’s classic elegies—ten mystical, radiant poems that bring together the beautiful and the sacred.Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a final bout of feverish inspiration in 1922, the ten elegies survey the ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

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  • The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    "This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced," (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version. ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • Faust

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Goethe’s masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Fausthas made the legendary German alchemist one of the central myths of the Western world. Here indeed is a monumental Faust, an audacious man boldly wagering with the devil, Mephistopheles, that no magic, sensuality, experience, or knowledge can lead him to a moment he would wish to last forever. Here, in Faust*,* Part I, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Rilke's Book of Hours

    Love Poems to God

    by Anita Barrows ...
    **A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/WEST TRANSLATION AWARDThe 100th Anniversary Edition of a global classic, containing beautiful translations along with the original German text.**While visiting Russia in his twenties, Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the twentieth century's greatest poets, was moved by a spirituality he encountered there. Inspired, Rilke returned to Germany and put down on paper what he felt ... Read more

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  • Parallel Text: German Short Stories

    Deutsche Kurzgeschichten

    Edited by Richard Newnham ...
    Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic.With the original German text running alongside English translations, this collection features stories from eight outstanding post-war authors including Heinrich Böll, Ilse ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus

    A Dual Language Edition

    by Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Translated by Stephen Mitchell ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Available for the first time in a single volume, Ranier Maria Rilke’s two most beloved sequences of poems rendered by his most faithful translator. Rilke is unquestionably the twentieth century’s most significant and compelling poet of romantic transformation and spiritual quest. His poems of ecstatic identification with the world exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s versions of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Selected Poems and Fragments

    by Friedrich Hölderlin ...
    Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe’s supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The ’Canticles of ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties

    Translations and Considerations

    by John J. L. Mood, Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    An anthology of Rilke's strongest poetry and prose for both aficionados and new readers.Here is a mini-anthology of poetry and prose for both aficionados and those readers discovering Rainer Maria Rilke for the first time. John J. L. Mood has assembled a collection of Rilke's strongest work, presenting commentary along with the selections. Mood links into an essay passages from letters that show ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Mozart's The Magic Flute - Opera Journeys Libretto Series

    by Burton D. Fisher ...
    A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Lenz

    by Georg Buchner ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    This classic of German literature—often hailed as the inception of European modernist prose—follows the mental breakdown of an 18th-century schizophrenic playwright, Jakob Michael Reinhold LenzPublished after Büchner’s death, Lenz provides a taut case study of three weeks in the life of schizophrenic, perhaps the first third-person text ever to be written from the “inside” of insanity. An early ... Read more

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  • The Book of Lieder

    by Ian Bostridge, Richard Stokes ...
    This unique volume contains, in parallel translation, a thousand of the most frequently performed Lieder, both piano-accompanied and orchestral. Composers are arranged alphabetically, with their songs appearing under poet in chronological order of composition - thus allowing the reader to engage in depth with a particular poet and at the same time to follow the composer's development. Richard ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • To The Silenced

    by Georg Trakl ...
    Translated by Will Stone ...
    Series series Arc Translations
    Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago, the mesmerising imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work. A source of inspiration for artists, musicians and writers throughout the Expressionist period and beyond, Trakl's ... Read more

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