Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on t...

»Nach wie vor bin ich der Meinung, daß sich die Literatur der deutschen landesflüchtigen Schrifts...

'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasiz...

A life of the nineteenth-century German writer and composer most famous for inspiring The Nutcrac...

Doctor Faustus

The Buddenbrooks

This volume contains a generous selection of the short fiction Thomas Mann published in the years...

Evariste-Désiré de Parny, though largely forgotten now, was well known in the nineteenth century ...

Focusing on Kafka's sense of Jewish identity and knowledge of Judaism, Robertson elucidates the s...

Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.

Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially com...

Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions...

Religion and enlightenment, the twin themes of this volume, always exist in tension. The tensions...

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any othe...

'...behind them all was New York, looking at Karl with the hundred thousand windows of its skyscr...

New essays examine 20th-c. Austrian literature in relation to history, politics, and popular cult...

In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times.....

'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gat...

Kafka and Short Modernist Prose. Kafka und die kleine Prosa der Moderne

Isaiah Berlin (1909-97) was recognized as Britain's most distinguished historian of ideas. Many o...

This book is an erudite literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria ...

Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his ...

'K. kept feeling that he had lost himself, or was further away in a strange land than anyone had ...

'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.'Kafka published two collec...

'I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.'Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest ...

'When Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some ki...

A magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationa...

'Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anythin...

Kafka

Historical research has dispelled a number of myths surrounding World War I: whereas the outbreak...

A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (...

Hoffmann is among the greatest and most popular of the German Romantics. This selection, while st...

A concise yet comprehensive critical biography of Friedrich Nietzsche.

?[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vi...

'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment...