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This revolutionary translation is the only way to experience the novel as Hesse envisioned it nearly one hundred years ago. The quest for self-discovery never ends, especially for Harry Haller—better known as the Steppenwolf. After a life spent in self-imposed isolation, Harry meets the mysterious H... Read More about The Steppenwolf

The first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawings  “The figures he drew stand alone as stories in themselves.”—Lauren Christensen, New York Times Book Review  “A sensational new book [that] reveals these hitherto hidde... Read More about Franz Kafka: The Drawings

A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck Jenny 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 spotlig... Read More about Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

A collection of new essays bringing into view the push and pull of the national and the international in the German-language cultural field of the period. The cultural formations of the so-called Age of Nationalism (1848-1919) have shaped German-language literary studies to the present day, for bet... Read More about German Literature as a Transnational Field of Production, 1848-1919 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture #235)

Now in paperback, a wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka In 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,... Read More about Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds

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 ... Read More about The Country Road: Stories