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Lives Other Than My Own
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 15.99From the acclaimed Emmanuel Carrère, an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grand-father helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving... more...
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Floating Press 2010; US$ 3.99Very loosely based on the life of a French duelist and playwright, Cyrano de Bergerac is a play in verse that tells the tale of soldier who is gifted with every imaginable positive attribute -- except that of a handsome appearance. Because of his perceived ugliness (including a disproportionately large nose), Cyrano feels unworthy of the woman he loves... more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
One Day in Oradour
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 8.99On a hot summer afternoon in 1944, SS troops wiped out an entire French village. 644 men, women and children died that day. Just one child survived. This book tells the story of what happened in Oradour, and imagines what drove both the SS officer who ordered the massacre, and the seven-year-old boy who escaped it. Powerful, moving and almost unbearably... more...
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 44.00Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literarature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn made a great impact on literary texts. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture. more...
Die beste Bewerbungsmappe
Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 16.52Hauptbeschreibung Personalverantwortliche haben hohe Ansprüche - bereits die schriftliche Bewerbung muss diese Erwartungen erfüllen und den neuen Arbeitgeber in kürzester Zeit von den Qualitäten des Bewerbers überzeugen. Das gelingt nur mit individuellen und passgenauen Unterlagen. Püttjer & Schnierda zeigen in ihrem Ratgeber, wie man Fehler vermeidet... more...
Nana
OUP Oxford 1992; US$ 8.99Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan élite, was la Ville Lumière, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siècle moral corruption. The fate of Nana, the Helen of Troy of the Second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir, reduced... more...
Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch 2010
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 55.11Hauptbeschreibung Das Lichtenberg-Jahrbuch bringt neben Erstdrucken aus dem Nachlaß, insbesondere aus den Sudelbüchern und Tagebüchern, neue Funde von Lichtenberg-Briefen, kommentierte Ausdrucke von nicht wieder veröffentlichten Kalenderartikeln, Miszellaneen zu Person und Werk, eine fortlaufende Bibliographie und regelmäßige Bücherschau, vor allem... more...
Internationale Bibliographie zum Werk Gerhart Hauptmanns
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 32.84Hauptbeschreibung Seit Abschluss des 3. Bandes der "Internationalen Bibliographie zum Werk Gerhart Hauptmanns" im Jahre 2001 ist eine beträchtliche Anzahl neuer Publikationen über den 1946 verstorbenen schlesischen Nobelpreisträger erschienen. Im vorliegenden 4. Band der Bibliographie werden die bis Ende 2011 publizierten und Relevanz beanspruchenden... more...









