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The best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersNo one has captured the modern experience, its wild dreams, strange joys, its neuroses and boredom, better than Franz Kafka. His vision, with its absurdity and twisted humour, has lost none of its force or re... Read More about The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories (Pushkin Press Classics)

A beautiful new paperback edition of this collection containing five of Stefan Zweig's most powerful novellas. A casual introduction, a challenge to a simple game of chess, a lovers' reunion, a meaningless infidelity: from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales... Read More about The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig

This book is a standard work for modern narrative theory. It provides a terminological and theoretical system of reference for future research. The author explains and discusses in detail problems of communication structure and entities of a narrative work, point of view, the relationship between na... Read More about Narratology (de Gruyter Textbook)

WINNER OF THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZEA letter from a German soldier to his grandson recounts the terrors of war on the Eastern Front, and a postwar ordinary life in search of atonement, in this “raw, visceral, and propulsive” novel (New York Times Book Review).A New York Times Book Review E... Read More about We Germans: A Novel

A hilarious takedown of celebrity and false genius, never before available in the US.An NYRB Classics OriginalEduard Saxberger is a quiet man who is getting on in years and has spent the better part of them working at a desk in an office. Once upon a time, however, he published a book of poetry, Wan... Read More about Late Fame (NYRB Classics)

New translations of the best stories by the one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersKafka, whose name has generated an adjective, is one of the best loved writers of the twentieth century. Known for his dark, enigmatic stories, for the absurd nightmares he depicts, his ex... Read More about The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man: Essential Stories (Pushkin Press Classics #2)