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  • Charles Baudelaire

    A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    A classic account of late nineteenth-century Paris and a study of Baudelaire's life and workWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural commentators and theorists of this century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of the work of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history.Yet it was through his study of the social and cultural history of the late nineteenth-century Paris, examined ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Walter Benjamin

    The Story of a Friendship

    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    by Gershom Scholem ...
    Gershom Scholem is celebrated as the twentieth century’s most profound student of the Jewish mystical tradition; Walter Benjamin, as a master thinker whose extraordinary essays mix the revolutionary, the revelatory, and the esoteric. Scholem was a precocious teenager when he met Benjamin, who became his close friend and intellectual mentor. His account of that relationship—which was to remain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unpacking My Library

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series series ERIS gems
    “I fully realize that my discussion of the mental climate of collecting will confirm many of you in your conviction that this passion is behind the times, in your distrust of the collector type. Nothing is further from my mind than to shake either your conviction or your distrust.”Walter Benjamin was one of the great cultural critics of the twentieth century. In Unpacking My Library he offers a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Alison Belle Bews ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht’s epic theater. Illuminations also includes his penetrating study “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” an ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Germany? Germany!: Satirical Writings

    The Kurt Tucholsky Reader

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Series Book 3 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Kurt Tucholsky is one of Weimar Germany's most celebrated literary figures, loved by his many readers and hated by the Nazis. The poet, journalist, and satirist who was at the center of the tumultuous political and cultural world of 1920s Berlin still emerges as an astonishingly contemporary figure. But he was more than just an angry truth-teller; he was also one of the funniest satirical writers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • People in Auschwitz

    by Hermann Langbein ...
    Translated by Harry Zohn ...
    Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates. Interned at Auschwitz in 1942 and classified as a non-Jewish political prisoner, he was assigned as clerk to the chief SS physician of the extermination camp complex, which gave him access to documents, conversations, and actions that would have remained unknown to history were it not for his ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Berlin! Berlin!

    Dispatches from the Weimar Republic

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 1 - Tucholsky in Translation
    Berlin! Berlin! is a satirical selection from the "man with the acid pen and the perfect pitch for hypocrisy," as New York author and Tucholsky-expert Peter Wortsman writes. This book os a complete collection of Tucholsky's news stories, features, satirical pieces, and poems about his hometown Berlin. It depicts Weimar Berlin, its cabarets, its policies, its follies, its ticks, and its celebrities ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Prayer After the Slaughter

    Poems and Stories From World War I

    by Kurt Tucholsky, Peter Appelbaum, James Scott ...
    Series Book 4 - Tucholsky in Translation
    No one before or after Kurt Tucholsky has captured the horrors of the "Great War," as World War I was known, quite like he did. The famed Weimar writer, who would become one of Germany's best-known satirist and journalists, describes surviving in the trenches and fighting a losing battle, the arrogance of the officers and the desperation of the loved ones back home. His writing is similar to that ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hereafter

    We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs

    by Kurt Tucholsky ...
    Translated by Cindy Opitz ...
    Series Book 5 - Tucholsky in Translation
    What happens after you die? Where will you go? Will you have a harp, and wings? Will you still have your sharp wit? Does it do you any good? Were you happy with your life? Did your family love you? Or, at least, your mistress? And do you want a second chance to return to earth? In Hereafter. We Were Sitting on a Cloud, Dangling Our Legs Kurt Tucholsky, the iconic German Jewish author and poet of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Reflections

    Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings

    by Walter Benjamin, Alison Belle Bews ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 13 min

    A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Story of Tea

    A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

    by Mary Lou Heiss, Robert J. Heiss ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours

    Whether it's a delicate green tea or a bracing Assam black, a cup of tea is a complex brew of art and industry, tradition and revolution, East and West. In this sweeping tour through the world of tea, veteran tea traders Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss chronicle tea's influence across the globe and provide a complete reference for choosing, drinking, and enjoying this beverage.The Story of Tea ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Complete Works of Franz Kafka

    by Franz Kafka ...
    The Complete works of Franz Kafka with active table of content for easy navigation through all of his great works. ... Read more

    $1.82 USD