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Classic German literature

"Jugend ohne Gott" gilt als das bedeutendste Werk von Horvaths. Hintergrund des Romans ist die Charakter-, Gedanken- und Lieblosigkeit der Jugend im Dritten Reich.

By Odön von Horvath

£7.00

Das kurze sommerliche Glück einer grosßen Liebe.

By Theodor Fontane

£9.40

Berlin 1940 and the city is filled with fear...

By Hans Fallada

£12.75

Kafka's most famous work.

By Franz Kafka

£11.95

The story of Edgar W's short life, his rebellion against the rules of communism and the love that is out of his reach.

By Ulrich Plenzdorf

£8.55

Entertainer Hans Schneir re-examines his life after his fianceé leaves him.

By Heinrich Böll

£11.95

Die Geschichte eines Entwurzelten, der keine Heimat mehr finden kann.

By W G Sebald

£11.50

In der 1920er Jahre, Gilgi macht sich auf den Weg in die Selbstständigkeit.

By Irmgard Keun

£11.95

Arriving at an illicit rendezvous, Hans finds his father taking revenge for past crimes.

By Jurek Becker

£13.50

Eine Erzählung aus der Zeit der systematischen Verfolgung der Juden im Dritten Reich.

By Albrecht Goes

£15.75

Ein Mord, ein Verdächtiger und Fräulein von Scuderi - Dichterin und Ermittlerin.

By E T A Hoffmann

£3.10

Ein Aussenseiter wird zum Mörder.

By Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

£3.80

Der Werther war wohl der erste europäische Bestseller der deutschen Literatur.

By J W von Goethe

£4.85

An old man looks back on his life and remembers Elizabeth - the only woman he ever loved...

By Theodor Storm

£4.30

Two examples of von Kleist's short stories.

By Heinrich von Kleist

£3.25

Erich Kästners Meisterwerk.

By Erich Kästner

£12.75

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Jahren der deutschen Teilung. Rita musß eine Entscheidung treffen, die sie in eine tiefe Krise stürzt.

By Christa Wolf

£16.75

In a small town on the sea six people meet. They are united by the wish to leave Germany!

By Alfred Andersch

£13.75

"Fundbüro" ist ein einnehmender, wunderbar erzählter Roman voll menschlicher Anteilnahme und liebenswertem Witz.

By Siegfried Lenz

£26.75

Ein Roman mit autobiographischen Zügen über die erste Liebe.

By Max Kruse

£7.85

Das wahrscheinlich bedeutendste und wieder bestürzend aktuell gewordene Werk des expressionistischen Autors Ernst Toller.

By Ernst Toller

£9.25

Eine Eheroman.

By Hans Fallada

£13.50

Ein Schachspiel gefährdet Dr B's Gesundheit.

By Stefan Zweig

£13.50

A story of obsession.

By Thomas Mann

£11.95

Anhand von zeitgenössischen Dokumenten erzählt Heym die Geschehnisse um den 17. Juni 1953. Ein packender Zeitroman, der als das bekannteste Werk des grosßen Schriftstellers gilt.

By Stefan Heym

£11.50

German literature in translation

A blisteringly immediate story of flight and survival in Nazi Germany.

By Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

£14.99

Count Holk is enthralled by life at a Danish castle - so much so he does not realise everything is at it appears...

By Theodor Fontane

£11.95

Gilgi's life is derailed when she meets a charming man...

By Irmgard Keun, Geoff Wilkes

£8.99

Brother and sister meet at their father's funeral after many years when they have had no contact...

By Robert Musil, Joel Agee

£14.99

Berlin, April 1945, a resistance group continues their fight against the Nazi regime...

By Heinz Rein, Shaun Whiteside

£10.99

A small-time singer is catapulted to fame by the press with consequences beyond anyone's imagining...

By Gabriele Tergit, Sophie Duvernoy

£9.99

A disillusioned German soldier travelling to the Eastern Front attempts to escape his fate...

By Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz

£8.99

Nathanael continues to be haunted by his childhood fear of the Sandman leading to strange events...

By E T A Hoffmann, Christopher Moncrieff

£7.99

Ashes for Breakfast introduces Germany's most highly acclaimed contemporary poet to a British audience.

By Durs Grünbein

£12.99

German poet Nora Gomringer translated into English for the first time by Scottish poet and editor Annie Rutherford.

By Nora Gomringer, Annie Rutherford

£9.99

A new expanded edition of Constantine's widely-praised Hoelderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996).

By Friedrich Hölderlin, David Constantine

£14.99

This collection of his poems is considered one of the masterpieces of twentieth century poetry.

By Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Temple

£9.99

This edition includes all of Trakl's major poems alongside a judicious selection of the best of his uncollected work.

By Georg Trakl, Will Stone

£15.00

This important work appears here in English for the first time in nearly a century, it is one of the most moving testaments we have from a writer in prison.

By Ernst Toller, Ashley Dukes

£9.99

A drama of the absurd that reduces human nature to its most ridiculous depths.

By Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Patrick Bowles

£8.99

ELI Language Games

£15.95

A fun, educational game which combines the telling of five traditional fairy tales with learning basic vocabulary and grammar.

£15.95

A fun game for students to learn to ask and tell the time.

£15.95

A fun card game of deduction and investigation, for students to revise vocabulary and language structures related to physical descriptions by asking questions to guess the secret character.

£15.95

An enjoyable matching game to help students learn a range of adjectives and opposites in German. Lower intermdiate A2-B1.

£15.95

Learn 100 words of vocabulary in German through word-picture association.

£15.95

A useful game for practising verb conjugations and sentence structures using 100 everyday verbs! Lower intermediate A2-B1.

£15.95

Can you discover the identity of famous German people from the information on the cards?

£15.95

The Story Maker - Choose a character, a place, an item, and an action and get story-telling! Lower intermediate A2-B1.

£15.95

A challengung question and answer game covering cultural and interdisciplinary topics.

£15.95

Adapted classics for adult learners

The touching story of an orphan's relationship with her grandfather.

By Johanna Spyri

£9.15

Kästner's classic tale of a Alpine holiday.

By Erich Kästner

£11.95

The story of a family living in post war Germany where it is obvious that one person is missing...

By Uwe Timm

£8.70

Armed bank robbers take over a lightship.

By Siegfried Lenz

£6.65

Five stories taken from the author's collection, "Lange Schatten".

By Marie Luise Kaschnitz

£11.95

Seven cheerful, over-the-top tales of Münchhausen.

By Gottfried A Bürger

£9.70

Anne Frank records her thoughts and feelings in her diary while she and her family are in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam.

By Anne Frank

£9.95

When Kasperl and his friend set out to retrieve stolen property from Räuber Hotzenplatz, he captures them. Can they escape?

By Otfried Preussler

£9.95

When Timm Thaler laughs, everyone laughs with him. When he sells his laugh it changes him - can he get it back?

By James Krüss, Iris Felter

£9.50

The famous tale of waggish Till Eugenspiegel and his many pranks!

By Anon

£4.90

Three of Grimms' fairytales in one volume "Rumpelstilzchen, Frau Holle," and "Vom Fischer und seine Frau".

By Franz Specht

£9.35

A father sends his so-called good-for-nothing son out into the world to make his own living...

By Joseph von Eichendorff

£10.75

When Wenzel Strapinski - a poor but well-dressed tailor arrives in Goldbach looking for work, everyone believes him to be a Polish count - what should he do?

By Gottfried Keller

£10.75

Heinrich von Kleist's comedy of the judge who has to judge himself.

By Heinrich von Kleist, Gudrun Gotzmann

£10.75

Werther writes to his friend telling him of his love and his fears for a future with Lotte.

By Urs Luger

£7.25

Malte, a young writer, comes to Paris where he records in his diary his impressions of the city.

By Rainer Maria Rilke

£10.75

The tragic story of a simple soldier exploited by his superiors, humiliated by his peers and betrayed by his girlfriend...

By Georg Büchner

£10.75

Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman.

By J W von Goethe

£10.75

Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle.

By Franz Kafka

£10.75

One Christmas Eve in 19th century Nuremberg, Uncle Drosselmeyer arrives with presents for everyone including a nutcracker...

By E T A Hoffmann

£11.50

Peter Schlemihl is penniless but what can he do?

By Adelbert von Chamisso

£11.75

The story of the famous Swiss hero William Tell, narrated from his son Walter's point of view.

By Friedrich von Schiller, Sabine Werner

£11.95

Two men play a game of chess, but winning isn't everything...

By Stefan Zweig, Andreas de Jong

£11.50

Years after the end of an affair, Effi's secret returns to haunt her...

By Theodor Fontane

£11.95

What goes on in the seemingly uninhabited house?

By E T A Hoffmann

£11.50

Traditional German tales for teens

Three of Grimm's fairytales: Frau Holle, Der Froschkönig, and Der süsße Brei.

By Brüder Grimm

£8.95

The adventures of Till Eulenspiegel who plays tricks on everyone...

By Anon

£8.95

Die kleine Hexe wants to dance with the great witches but she's too young. When she tries to join in they take her broom and she must promise to be a good witch to earn another chance.

By Otfried Preussler

£9.95

Best friends Kim and Lukas don't want to stay close to each other. When lukas plans to move away, Kim decides to go with him.

By Michael Ende

£9.95

The Neverending Story: Bastian becomes engrossed in a strange book and finds himself part of the story to save Fantastica...

By Michael Ende

£9.50

When Zuppi wins a pig at a party, it turns out to be a troublesome pet until it becomes the football club mascot.

By Uwe Timm, Angelika Lundquist-Mog

£9.95

To be a Vorstadtkrokodile you have to pass a test. Kurt doesn't think he has a chance but then finds an opportunity to prove his bravery.

By Max von der Grün, Iris Felter

£9.50

A group of teenagers are caught in an online game that starts to invade their real lives...

By Ursula Poznanski

£9.50

When Prosper and Bo meet a group of young thieves in Venice they join them and meet their boss, the evasive Herr der Diebe.

By Cornelia Funke, Angelika Lundquist-Mog

£9.50

Angel Classics

The story of an ex-prisoner told after his death and the search for the meaning of an inscription on a portrait.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£11.95

A delightful account of a journey around Scotland with the artist Bernhard von Lepel.

By Theodor Fontane, Brian Battershaw

£17.95

A collection of four stories by Adalbert Stifter.

By Adalbert Stifter, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

£6.95

A story of mutual sexual attraction at a fashionable spa moves to a grim climax among the high-society fringe of Berlin

By Theodor Fontane, Stanley Radcliffe

£9.95

Four of Theodor Storm's novellas: Carsten The Trustee, The Swallows of St George, The Last Farmstead and By the Fireside.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£11.95

A brilliantly funny read. Heine comments on the homeland he sees again after years of exile.

By Heinrich Heine, T J Reed

£11.95

The story of a noble family's conflict and downfall during the wars that swept northern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£9.95

Three novellas: Hans and Heinz Kirch, Immensee and Joruney to Hallig.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson, Anja Nauck

£8.50

Goethe's version of the Iphigenia-Orestes legend.

By J W von Goethe, Roy Pascal

£9.95

Three of Storm's works in one volume: Paul the Puppeteer, The Village on the Moor and Renate.

By Theodor Storm, Denis Jackson

£9.95

This selection of his poems and prose pieces is the most comprehensive edition available to the English-language reader.

By Georg Trakl, Alexander Stillmark

£17.95

The fullest selection of Heym's verse to appear in English.

By Georg Heym, Antony Hasler

£12.95

13 short stories including comic tales, dense novellas and the dramatic tale of The Duellist's Second.

By Arthur Schnitzler, J M Q Davies

£10.95

A selection of stories that capture the restless spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

By Hugo von Hofmannsthal, J M Q Davies

£9.95

Goethe

Goethe's Faust - sein "Hauptgeschäft"

By J W von Goethe

£3.40

Goethe's epic poem.

By J W von Goethe

£4.60

Der Werther war wohl der erste europäische Bestseller der deutschen Literatur.

By J W von Goethe

£4.85

Reineke, der schlaue Fuchs, treibt schon seit der Antike sein trickreiches Unwesen in der Welt der Tierfabeln.

By J W von Goethe

£7.85

Ein Entree zu Goethe's grosßem Gedichtwerk.

By J W von Goethe

£3.95

Historiendrama - Götz speigelt die Zersplitterung des Deutschen Reiches zu Beginn der Neuzeit wider und verknüpft das private und das öffentliche Schicksal des Protagonisten.

By J W von Goethe

£3.95

Johann Wolfgang Goethes klassisches Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen.

By J W von Goethe

£3.10

Torquato Tasso, einem der literarischen Erträge der Italienreise, schuf Goethe das erste regelrechte Künstlerdrama der Weltliteratur.

By J W von Goethe

£3.70

By J W von Goethe

£3.10

Die Geschwister, Die Laune des Verliebten

By J W von Goethe

£3.40

Wer kennt sie nicht, die Geschichte von Mephisto, der versucht, Doktor Faust die Seele abzuhandeln!

By Barbara Kindermann, J W von Goethe

£17.75

Goethe's version of the Iphigenia-Orestes legend.

By J W von Goethe, Roy Pascal

£9.95

Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman.

By J W von Goethe

£10.75