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“kurt beals”

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  • The Steppenwolf

    by Hermann Hesse ...
    Translated by Kurt Beals ...
    "Kurt Beals makes this 1927 classic of psychedelic dreams sparkle in new technicolor splendor. Talk to your doctor about possible side effects." —Martin Puchner, author of The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to EliminateThis revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago.The quest ... Read more

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  • All Quiet on the Western Front

    by Erich Maria Remarque ...
    Translated by Kurt Beals ...
    The greatest war novel of all time rendered in a taut, muscular, and urgent new translation.An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German novel of all time. Its impact is indisputable: it has been adapted for film, television, and other ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • The Frankfurt Lectures

    by Ingeborg Bachmann, Kurt Beals ...
    In these spellbinding lectures, Ingeborg Bachmann opens our eyes to the endless possibilities of literatureIngeborg Bachmann, one of the greatest German-language writers of the last century, delivered these astonishing lectures on the questions of poetics at Frankfurt University in 1959 and 1960.In these lucid and dazzling lectures, Bachmann leads us to the essence of literature, which was, at ... Read more

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  • Not a Novel

    A Memoir in Pieces

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Kurt Beals ...
    A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny ErpenbeckJenny Erpenbeck’s highly acclaimed novel Go, Went, Gone was a New York Times notable book and launched one of Germany’s most admired writers into the American spotlight. In the New Yorker, James Wood wrote: “When Erpenbeck wins the Nobel Prize in a few years, I ... Read more

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  • Things That Disappear

    by Jenny Erpenbeck ...
    Translated by Kurt Beals ...
    An exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 Booker International Prize: “She is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have—it’s no surprise that she is already bruited as a future Nobelist.” —Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Is that Kafka?

    99 Finds

    by Reiner Stach ...
    Translated by Kurt Beals ...
    Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about KafkaIn the course of compiling his highly acclaimed three-volume biography of Kafka, while foraying to libraries and archives from Prague to Israel, Reiner Stach made one astounding discovery after another: unexpected photographs, inconsistencies in handwritten texts, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Country Road

    Stories

    by Regina Ullman ...
    Translated by Kurt Beals ...
    Although a famous Swiss author, Regina Ullmann has never appeared before in English: her oracular, strange, singular voice astonishes.Never before in English, Regina Ullmann's work is distinctive and otherworldly, resonant of nineteenth-century village tales and of authors such as Adalbert Stifter and her contemporary Robert Walser. In the stories of The Country Road, largely set in the Swiss ... Read more

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  • The ABC of Relativity

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    The Nobel Prize winner offers "an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity" in clear, comprehensible language ( Nature ).A renowned mathematician and philosopher , and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was acclaimed for his ability to address complex subjects in accessible ways. In this classic reference book, Russell delve... ... Read more

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  • A New New Me

    A Novel

    by Helen Oyeyemi ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER"Equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart...Her prose offers, in a single page, poetic candor, sly wit, dad jokes, and contemporary therapyspeak." ― The New Yorker“Her weirdest and funniest yet — in the best way possible.” ― Los Angeles Times"Audacious, incisive and very funny." ― Daily MailA masterful story that asks: What if the different sides of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Read more

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  • Plowing the Dark

    A Novel

    by Richard Powers ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground . " Plowing the Dark is virtual reality composed in a language that will never go obsolete." —Kevin Berger, The San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewIn a digital laboratory on the shores of Puget Sound, a band of virtual-reality researchers races to complete the Cavern, an empty white room that can bec... ... Read more

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  • We

    A Novel

    by Yevgeny Zamyatin ...
    Translated by Bela Shayevich ...
    The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le GuinIn a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful “Benefactor,” the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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