20th Century Literature – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 2

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz,
Berlin Shuffle

A prophetic lost classic from interwar Germany, now translated into English for the first time, following a group of Berliners on the skids as their nation unravelsBerlin in the 1920s is the largest city …

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Joan Sales,
Winds of the Night

"Winds of the Night is a novel by the Catalan author and publisher, Joan Sales. It is set in a devastated and impoverished Catalonia under the heel of the Franco dictatorship after the Spanish Civil …

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Beci Carver
Modernism's Whims

Thomas Hardy asks of the ghost stalking him: 'Whither, O whither will your whim now draw me?' Immediately tripping up on its own laid-out comma, then pausing to howl theatrically, and hedging its bets wit…

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Lucy Evans
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions…

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Nathan Waddell
The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell

This book offers a comprehensive view of Orwell's thought and writing via forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists. It addresses familiar topics--such as Orwell's journa…

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Agatha Christie, Mary Westmacott
The Burden

A superb novel of possessive love by Agatha Christie, written under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.Agatha Christie, famous for her ingenious crime novels, also wrote about crimes of the heart.Written under…

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Keru Cai
Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism

Poverty in Modern Chinese Realism shows how early twentieth-century Chinese writers drew upon Russian realist fiction to develop new types of literature in China. They used elements found in Russian ficti…

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David James
Discrepant Solace

Discrepant Solace studies some of the most challenging works of late twentieth- and twenty-first-century fiction and life-writing to consider narratives that engage with consolation as an enduring problem…

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Marta Fossati
The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010

Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century, examining its narratological characteristics, its dial…

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Erich Maria Remarque,
All Quiet on the Western Front

An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German…

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Ruthvika Rao
The Fertile Earth

Flatiron Books

FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ¿FINALIST FOR 2025 CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE ¿ An unforgettable story of love and resistance surrounding two young people born across social lines, set …

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Thomas Allen
Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

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Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a timeless example of his spare but powerful writing. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-Wo…

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Erich Maria Remarque,
All Quiet on the Western Front

An immediate sensation when it was published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide since then, making it the best-selling German…

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Hemingway and Italy

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemi…

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Hemingway and Film

New approaches to teaching Hemingway in the context of filmThough Ernest Hemingway distrusted Hollywood and often found himself in conflict with directors and producers, he frequented theaters and freely …

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Wolfgang Koeppen,
Death in Rome

Death in Rome tells the story of four members of a German family-a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator-reunited by chance in the decayin…

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Doris Webster, Mary Alden Hopkins
Consider the Consequences

You decide what the characters do--and who they end up with--in this interactive 1930s romantic time capsule that paved the way for Choose Your Own Adventure!43 HAPPILY (N)EVER AFTERS: Play as a party gam…

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Anna Snaith
Writing Noise in Interwar Britain

This book explores the preoccupation with 'unwanted' sound in interwar Britain. It contends that the extreme decibel levels brought about during WW1 created not only a concern with the effects of noise on…

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Francis Spufford
Nonesuch

A spellbinding tale about an ambitious young woman who must thwart an occult plot by time-traveling fascists during the chaos of the London Blitz---from "one of our most powerful writers of wayward h…

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