No Place on Earth

Author	Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN	0060825197

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking...

Author	Georg Büchner
ISBN	0974968021

Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright’s descent into madness, grew in part out of Alsatian pastor Johann Oberlin’s journal, which is translated here in its entirety for the first time. Lenz is a dispassionate account on the nervous system of a schizophrenic,...

Author	Theodor Fontane
ISBN	3150085772

Fontane verfasste die Novelle im Zeitraum von 1883 bis April 1885. Als Kriminalgeschichte galt sie in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit eher als weniger gelungenes Nebenwerk Fontanes. Obwohl der Leser bereits von Beginn an die Täter und ihre Motive kennt, wird durch Einbindung psychologischer...

Author	Bertolt Brecht
ISBN	1559704209

In this version of the story of Joan of Arc, Brecht transforms her into 'Joan Dark', a member of the 'Black Straw Hats' (a Salvation Army-like group) in twentieth century Chicago. The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of a meat-packing plant. Like her predecessor, Joan...

Author	Ferdinand von Schirach
ISBN	0670026522

The internationally bestselling courtroom drama centering on a young German lawyer and a case involving war crimes

A bestseller in Germany since its 2011 release—with rights sold in seventeen countries—The Collini Case combines the classic courtroom procedural with modern European...