Category: Classics

Heinrich B ll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanized by the thought that he is on the way to his death.

As the train hurtles on, he riffs through prayers and memories, talks with other soldiers about what they've been through, and gazes desperately out the window at his country racing away. With mounting suspense, Andreas is gripped by one thought over all: Is there a wa...
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The Safety Net (The Essential Heinrich Boll)

By: Boll, Heinrich

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Melville House: December 2010

Seller ID: 361120

ISBN: 193555431X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Fritz Tolm has risen to the most powerful position in Germany. With fame comes fear and vulnerability. Threats to his life are met with the all-pervasive "safety-net" of police protection and surveillance. Trapped in a house they dare not leave, where every visitor is suspect and every object a potential bomb, Tolm and his family wait to discover when and how terrorism will overtake them.
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Group Portrait with Lady (The Essential Heinrich Boll)

By: Boll, Heinrich

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Melville House: March 2011

Seller ID: 361121

ISBN: 1935554336

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the "crown" of Heinrich B ll's work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story--past and present--of one of B ll's most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow.

At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a co...
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine (The Essential Heinrich Boll)

By: Boll, Heinrich

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Melville House: December 2010

Seller ID: 361122

ISBN: 1935554182

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

B ll's well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany's defeat in the two World Wars.
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The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader (Modern Library)

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Modern Library: November 1995

Seller ID: 345049

ISBN: 0679601651

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Offers seventy-five selections from the author's works, including The Americans, The Discoverers, The Creators, and eight other books.
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The Man Outside: Play & stories

By: Borchert, Wolfgang

Price: $5.95

Publisher: New Directions: January 1971

Seller ID: 278914

ISBN: 0811200116

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of Borchert's most important prose, translated by A. D. Porter with an Introduction by Stephen Spender, includes the complete text of the title play, as well as 39 stories and assorted pieces that comprise much of the author's output during the two short, fever-ridden years in which he wrote, complemented by Kay Boyle's appreciative Foreword.
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Man from Mt. Vernon

By: Boyce, Burke

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Harper & Brothers: January 1961

Seller ID: 340213

ISBN: B0006AWY1M

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Beginnings of Modern Science Scientific Writings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries

By: Boynton, Holmes (Editor)

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Walter J. Black, Inc 1970's: January 1970

Seller ID: 349115

ISBN: B000RSNXPY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Bradbury, Ray

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Avon: March 1998

Seller ID: 357698

ISBN: 0380729407

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two boys will discover the secret of its smoke, mazes, and mirrors; two friends who will soon know all too well the heavy cost of wishes. . .and the stuff of nightmare.

Few American novels written this century have endured in the ...
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Less Than One: Selected Essays

By: Brodsky, Joseph

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: May 1987

Seller ID: 278601

ISBN: 0374520550

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by their inability to write in English, Brodsky consumed the language to attain a "closer proximity" to poets such as Auden. The book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiogr...
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Wuthering Heights (Notes)

By: Bronte

Price: $1.95

Publisher: Cliffs Notes: September 1991

Seller ID: 261186

ISBN: 0822013932

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Cliffs Notes On Bronte's Jane Eyre

By: Bronte

Price: $2.95

Publisher: Cliffs Notes: June 2000

Seller ID: 269260

ISBN: 0764585894

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

Question Victorian--and present-day--society as you study Charlotte Bronte's popular novel with CliffsNotes on Jane Eyre. What is women's position in society? What is the relationship of dreams and fantasy to reality? What is the basis of an effective marriage? Bronte tackles all these questions and more throu...
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Jane Eyre (Broadview Literary Texts)

By: Bronte, Charlotte

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Broadview Press: January 1999

Seller ID: 365761

ISBN: 1551111802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The World of Washington Irving

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dutton: January 1944

Seller ID: 364345

ISBN: B0007FEYJ6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker (Penguin Classics)

By: Brown, Charles Brockden

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1988

Seller ID: 211183

ISBN: 0140390626

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

One of the first American Gothic novels, Edgar Huntly (1787) mirrors the social and political temperaments of the postrevolutionary United States.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date transla...
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (Penguin Classics)

By: Brown, Charles Brockden

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Penguin Classics: January 1991

Seller ID: 218066

ISBN: 0140390790

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A terrifying account of the fallibility of the human mind and, by extension, of democracy itself, Wieland brilliantly reflects the psychological, social, and political concerns of the early American republic. In the fragmentary sequel, Memoirs, Brown explores Carwin's bizarre history as a manipulated disciple of the charismatic utopian Ludloe.

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Category: Classics