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A softcover copy in very good condition, text in German. Light shelf wear is present to the covers, with no creasing around the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout, with light tanning consistent with the book's age. Rowohlt paperback edition, licensed from edition spangenberg, 1990. Klaus Mann, eldest son of Thomas Mann, wrote Mephisto: Roman einer Karriere in 1936 while living in exile. The novel follows the actor Hendrik Höfgen as he trades principle for advancement under the rising regime. This edition's cover features photography of Klaus-Maria Brandauer from István Szabó's 1981 film adaptation, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages and boards are clean and unmarked throughout. Die Vermessung der Welt von Daniel Kehlmann. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg, 2008. In deutscher Sprache. A fictionalised double portrait of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and explorer Alexander von Humboldt, tracing their parallel obsessions with measuring and understanding the world. One of the most successful German novels. Winner of the Kleist Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. Daniel Kehlmann lives in Berlin and New York.

A softcover copy in very good condition. No creasing to the spine or edges. A light mark to the front board. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Wir sind doch Schwestern von Anne Gesthuysen. Piper Verlag, München Zürich, 2014. Ungekürzte Taschenbuchausgabe (unabridged paperback edition). In deutscher Sprache. A German-language novel of three elderly sisters, memory, and the complex bonds of a shared lifetime. Gesthuysen's debut novel, it reached number one on the Spiegel bestseller list upon publication in 2012. Gesthuysen is a German journalist.

This is one of the most studied and widely read works of 20th-century German literature: Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Der Tod in Venedig. My copy is brand new, unread, with no creasing to the spine or covers. Fischer Taschenbuch, December 2021. Text based on the 1913 S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin edition, newly reviewed; unabridged edition, first published by Fischer Taschenbuch in Frankfurt am Main, July 1992. Copyright Katia Mann, 1967. Printed in Germany on FSC-certified paper. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 and is counted among the most significant German-language writers of the twentieth century, also the author of Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg, and Doktor Faustus. Set in Venice during a cholera outbreak in the summer of 1911, Der Tod in Venedig follows the celebrated writer Gustav von Aschenbach as a holiday taken to escape creative exhaustion becomes the site of an absorbing personal crisis. The novella draws extensively on classical mythology and the philosophy of Nietzsche, and has been the subject of extensive critical and scholarly study for over a century.

This beautiful German softcover holds a genuinely remarkable literary story: it is, in fact, Heinrich Böll's first novel, written in 1949-1951 but left unpublished in his lifetime, only emerging from his literary estate in 1992, on what would have been his 75th birthday. My copy is in very good condition, with light creasing to the front cover and pages that remain crisp and entirely unmarked throughout. From my personal library. 5. Auflage (5th printing), 1997. Published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln. Text copyright 1992, 1994 by Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Edited from Böll's literary estate by Annemarie, René, Vincent, and Viktor Böll together with Heinrich Vormweg; prepared for publication by Werner Bellmann and Beate Schnepp, with an afterword by Bellmann. Cover photograph courtesy of the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden. Heinrich Böll, born in Köln, received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1972. Der Engel schwieg was written in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War and is set, though never named outright, in the bombed-out ruins of Böll's native Köln.

This is a beautiful German edition of Späte Rosen: Novellen und Gedichte by Theodor Storm, published by C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh. Storm was a nineteenth-century German poet and novella writer, best remembered today for Der Schimmelreiter and for his lyric, atmospheric prose rooted in his native Schleswig-Holstein. This edition is in very good condition. The pages are clean, unmarked, and of high quality, though the text is set in Frakturschrift, the old German blackletter typeface. The boards are bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering embossed on the front and spine.