Northwestern World Classics – serie
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22 produkter
Twelve Chairs
A Novel
Häftad, 2011
281 kr
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Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation.More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. The novel’s iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist …
Theogony and Works and Days
Av Hesiod
Häftad, 2017
206 kr
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Widely considered the first poet in the Western tradition to address the matter of his own experience, Hesiod occupies a seminal position in literary history. The Theogony brings together and formalizes many of the Greek myth narratives, detailing the genealogy of the Greek gods and their violent …
Death of Mr. Baltisberger
Häftad, 2010
233 kr
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Originally published as The Death of Mr. Baltisberger, the fourteen stories in Romance showcase the breadth of Bohumil Hrabal’s considerable gifts: his humor of the grotesque, his often surprising warmth, and his hard-edged, fast-paced style. In the story "Romance," a plumber’s apprentice and a …
Letters on God and Letters to a Young Woman
Häftad, 2012
160 kr
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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was an avid letter writer, and more than seven thousand of his letters have survived. The best-known collection today is Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet, first published in 1929. Two other letter collections appeared around the same time and gained high acclaim among …
Deliver Us
Häftad, 2011
229 kr
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Originally published in 1963, and today considered a landmark in twentieth century Italian literature, Luigi Meneghello’s Deliver Us is the memoir, not of an extraordinary childhood, but of the very ordinary one the author shared with most of his generation, when Italy was a rural country under the …
My Sister Life and the Zhivago Poems
Häftad, 2012
221 kr
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Boris Pasternak is best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, whereas in Russia he is most celebrated as a poet. The two poetry collections offered here in translation are chronological and thematic bookends, and they capture Pasternak’s abiding and powerful vision of life: his sense …
Tragedy of King Christophe
Av Aimé Césaire
Häftad, 2015
216 kr
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The Tragedy of King Christophe (1963, revised 1970) is recognized as the Martiniquan writer and activist Aime Cesaire's greatest play. Set in the period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, it follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who …
Mahabharata
Häftad, 2015
313 kr
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Within its 200,000 verse lines in Sanskrit the Mahabharata takes on many roles: epic poem, foundational text of Hinduism, and, more broadly, the engaging story of a dynastic struggle and the passing of an age when man and gods intermingled. David R. Slavitt's sparkling new edition condenses the …
Russian Absurd
Selected Writings
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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A writer who defies categorization, Daniil Kharms has come to be regarded as an essential artist of the modernist avant-garde. His writing, which partakes of performance, narrative, poetry, and visual elements, was largely suppressed during his lifetime, which ended in a psychiatric ward where he …
Fog
A Novel
Häftad, 2017
249 kr
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Fog is a fresh new translation of the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno's Niebla, first published in 1914. An early example of Modernism's challenge to the conventions of nineteenth-century realist fiction, Fog shocked critics but delighted readers with its formal experimentation and existential …
Judgment
A Novel
Häftad, 2017
233 kr
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Never before available in English, Judgment is a work of startling power by David Bergelson, the most celebrated Yiddish prose writer of his era. Set in 1920 during the Russian Civil War, Judgment (titled Mides-hadin in Yiddish) traces the death of the shtetl and the birth of the “new, harsher …
Two Plays of Weimar Germany
Youth Is a Sickness and Criminals
Häftad, 2018
208 kr
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If a theater-goer in Weimar Berlin were asked to name the best living German playwright, the answer would not be Bertolt Brecht or Georg Kaiser or Arnolt Bronnen. It would be Ferdinand Bruckner. And if asked, who is this Bruckner?, the Berliner would be at a loss to give you any information.In the …
Rakes of the Old Court
A Novel
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
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Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu Caragiale's Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) follows four characters through the bars and brothels of Bucharest. Guided by an amoral opportunist, the shadowy narrator and his two affluent friends drink and …
Rakes of the Old Court
A Novel
Inbunden, 2021
915 kr
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Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu Caragiale's Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) follows four characters through the bars and brothels of Bucharest. Guided by an amoral opportunist, the shadowy narrator and his two affluent friends drink and …
Flames from the Earth
A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto
Häftad, 2022
299 kr
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An emotionally powerful, poetic Yiddish novel, available in English for the first time, that expands our understanding of Holocaust literature and testimonyFlames from the Earth: A Novel from the ŁÓdź Ghetto is an autobiographical novel written by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish …
Flames from the Earth
A Novel from the Lódz Ghetto
Inbunden, 2022
1109 kr
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An emotionally powerful, poetic Yiddish novel, available in English for the first time, that expands our understanding of Holocaust literature and testimonyFlames from the Earth: A Novel from the ŁÓdź Ghetto is an autobiographical novel written by Isaiah Spiegel, one of the most revered Yiddish …
Wanderer
A Novel
Häftad, 2025
329 kr
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The first English-language translation of an eccentric, unclassifiable classic An unnamed narrator embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman Empires - all without leaving his divan. Drawing on his own experiences in Bessarabia during the Russo-Turkish …
Wanderer
A Novel
Inbunden, 2025
1420 kr
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The first English-language translation of an eccentric, unclassifiable classic An unnamed narrator embarks on a rambling journey across the diverse borderlands of the Russian and Ottoman Empires - all without leaving his divan. Drawing on his own experiences in Bessarabia during the Russo-Turkish …
Dacha Husband
Av Northwestern University Press
Häftad, 2009
216 kr
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In addition to offering fresh editions of well-known works, ""Northwestern World Classics"" will also reintroduce to a new generation 'lost classics', such as Ivan Shcheglov's 1896 ""The Dacha Husband"" (""Dachnyi muzh""). Despite being considered the most interesting writer of the late 1800s by no …
Belmour
A Modern Edition
Av Anne Damer, Jonathan David Gross
Häftad, 2011
313 kr
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Introduces to the modern audience to the only novel of English sculptress Anne Damer. Belmour chronicles the tangled romances of a group of eighteenth-century English aristocrats. The plot centres on Lord Belmour’s pursuit of the lovely and slightly mysterious Emily Melville.
Divine Comedy
Av Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri
Inbunden, 2010
457 kr
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The Divine Comedy marked nothing less than the arrival of vernacular Italian as a literary language—and Dante’s book is still considered Italy’s greatest literary achievement. Its highly idiomatic verse, however, has long bedeviled English-language translators. Burton Raffel, whose translation of …
Hero of Our Time
Häftad, 2016
233 kr
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Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time was the first modern Russian novel. Published in 1840, it set a model of penetrating observation and psychological depth that would come to typify Russian literature. Its “hero,” Grigorii Pechorin, also establisheda character type that became known in Russian …
