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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, "attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer capitalism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire"--Dust jacket flap.
7) In praise of mortality: selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry is among the finest lyrical verse of the last century. His Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies, most of which were written simultaneously in February 1922, were mutually inspired and deserve to be read together. And so they are presented together here, alongside the original German."
"In Praise of Mortality illumines certain themes threading through these beloved works that speak directly to our world today. The poet's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Egmont LYX
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Lady Celia Sharpe hopes that if she can garner offers of marriage from several eligible gentlemen and show her grandmother she is capable of gaining a husband, she can convince Gran to rescind the marriage ultimatum for her. And if that plan doesn't work, at least she'll have a husband lined up. But Bow Street Runner Jackson Pinter seems determined to ruin her plans by disapproving of every suitor she asks him to investigate. It's only when she and...
17) Letzte Gedichte
Author
Series
Transfer ; 91
Publisher
Folio-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Deutsch
