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Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann – 1947 Reviewed by: James F. Welch Date: 20 February 2003 I find Mann to be an interesting writer, but his prose and ideas are often dense and need a lot of concentration. This ...
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The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann – 1924 Posted by Lale on 27/4/2005, 10:50:11 I think there is enough material in this book to keep us off the streets for a while. The passages below: I simply found these excerpts i...
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Der Kleine Grenzverkehr / Der Kleine Mann – Erich Kästner
Der Kleine Grenzverkehr and Der Kleine Mann – Erich Kästner – 1949/1967 Reviewed by: Claus KREBS P. “Der kleine Grenzverkehr” (DkG) and “Der kleine Mann” (DkM) are two entirely different bo...
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The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) – Herman Hesse
The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) – Herman Hesse – 1943 Reviewed by: William Daniel Basinger Date: 25 October 2004 Dieser Roman ist bestimmt ein ausgezeichnetes Beispiel des Wissenschaftliches-P...
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Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse – 1927 Reviewed by: Pete C. Date: 20 June 2003 I read this book a while ago, so my memory of it isn’t that great, but there are a few things I can still remember. I rem...
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The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm – Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – 1812~ Reviewed by: Trisha Date: 22 October 2001 I am a literature major and Grimms’ fairy tales are the best ever! They are...
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The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass – 1959 Reviewed by: Chris Green Date: 25 May 2002 A boy who is perpetually three years old, who is of questionable paternity, who commits patricide against both of his fathers, w...
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The Three-Penny Opera – Bertolt Brecht
The Three-Penny Opera – Bertolt Brecht – 1928 Reviewed by: Steven Katona Date: 9 February 2005 Here’s alienation and defamiliarization taking place in literature. The questions society should ask ...
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll – 1974 Reviewed by: Linda Date: 5 May 2002 Katharina Blum is a hard working, honest housekeeper with a small car, her own house and, after her divorce fro...
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Primal Vision – Gottfried Benn
Primal Vision – Gottfried Benn – 1971 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 2 September 2001 At present I am translating for an English publisher a collection of poetry and prose by Gottfried Benn. So I am...