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  • The Black Spider

    by Jeremias Gotthelf ...
    Translated by H.M. Waidson ...
    Series series 101 Pages
    After one of their own people repeatedly fails to live up to a pact with the Devil, a petty and morally bankrupt village community is plagued by a swarm of deadly black spiders. Using a complex narrative structure, Gotthelf’s cautionary novella shrewdly dissects the iniquitous social dynamics of rural life.First published in 1842, The Black Spider displays its author’s talent for dark satire and ... Read more

    $4.79 USD

  • Wilhelm Meister

    by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ...
    Translated by Waidson, H.M. ...
    Seduced by the chimerical world of the theatre and taking upon himself the grand ambition of becoming a successful performer and dramatist, the merchant’s son Wilhelm Meister embarks on a tumultuous quest of self-discovery. Along his path he finds himself having to negotiate love, desire and the need to face up to his own past and responsibilities.A landmark in the history of European literature, ... Read more

    $4.59 USD

  • Elective Affinities

    by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ...
    Translated by H.M. Waidson ...
    Baron Eduard and his second wife Charlotte enjoy a quiet, humdrum existence in their opulent castle, but when he invites his friend the Captain and she invites her niece Ottilie to stay with them, their lives are turned inside out as both hosts begin to feel attracted to their guests. Using one of the chemical theories of the time as a metaphor throughout the novel, Goethe juxtaposes social ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

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  • Elective Affinities, Essays, and Letters by Goethe

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    This collection includes: Elective Affiniities and shorter works by Goethe. The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 2, edited by Kuno Francke. ... Read more

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  • The German Refugees

    by Johann Wolfgang Goethe ...
    A new translation by an award winning translator rescues this work from being out of print in English. Goethe�s collection of stories (1795) is modelled on the Decameron. A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left bank of the Rhine by the French Revolution. Their peace is further disrupted by the arguments between the young Karl, a supporter of the ideals of the ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy

    by Douglas A. Anderson, Ludwig Tieck, George MacDonald, E. Nesbit, Richard Garnett ...
    Terry Brooks. David Eddings. George R. R. Martin. Robin Hobb. The top names in modern fantasy all acknowledge J. R. R. Tolkien as their role model, the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But what writers influenced Tolkien himself? Here, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson has gathered the fiction of authors who sparked Tolkien’s imagination in a ... Read more

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  • The Seducer's Diary

    Translated by Alastair Hannay ...
    by Søren Kierkegaard ...
    Series series Penguin Great Loves
    Johannes is an aesthete, dedicated to creating the possibility of seduction through the careful manipulation of young women. He stealthily pursues the innocent Cordelia until she becomes increasingly drawn to him. But when she is ready to give herself completely, she realizes she may have got everything wrong.United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Michael Hulse ...
    Translated by Michael Hulse ...
    You only find true love once.When Werther dances with the beautiful Lotte, it seems as though he is in paradise. It is a joy, however, that can only ever be short-lived. Engaged to another man, she tolerates Werther's adoration and encourages his friendship. She can never return his love.Broken-hearted, he leaves her home in the country, trying to escape his own desire. But when he receives a ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

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  • A Journey Around My Room

    by Xavier De Maistre ...
    Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer uses his imagination to travel around his room, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having to travel to exotic locations. Contains a foreword by Alain de Botton ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by David Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.' The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. Overwhelmed by his ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Black Spider

    by Jeremias Gotthelf ...
    Translated by Susan Bernofsky ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalIt is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of the venerable edifice: a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new window frame. Thereby hangs a tale, one that, as the wise old grandfather who has lived all his life in the house ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • In Vino Veritas

    by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    It was on one of the last days in July, at ten o'clock in the evening, when the participants in that banquet assembled together. Date and year I have forgotten; indeed this would be interesting only to one's memory of details: and not to one's recollection of the contents of what experience. The spirit of the occasion and whatever impressions are recorded in one's mind under that heading, concerns ... Read more

    $2.99 USD