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1	Penthesilea more books like this by Heinrich Von Kleist, Heunrich Von Kleist, Joel Agee (Translator) An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and mainstay of the Greeks, and Penthesilea ("Pen ... see all copies from £6.35! new only from £10.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The End: Hamburg 1943 more books like this by Hans Erich Nossack, Erich Andres (Photographer), Joel Agee (Translator) "One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this ... see all copies from £5.62! new only from £5.62! \| first editions
3	The Secret Heart of the Clock Own more books like this by Elias Canetti, Joel Agee (Translator) From one of the preeminent intellectual figures of the twentieth century, a highly personal testimonial of what Canetti himself chooses to term "notations," bits and pieces: notes, aphorisms, fragments. Taken together, they present an awesomely tender, guiltily gloomy meditation on death and aging. see all copies from £3.86! first editions
4	The Assignment more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Erroll McDonald (Editor), Joel Agee (Translator) see all copies from £3.61! new only from £7.00! \| first editions
5	Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama more books like this by Heinrich Von Kleist, Joel Agee (Translator), Maurice Sendak (Photographer) An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and mainstay of the Greeks, and Penthesilea ("Pen ... see all copies from £9.31! new only from £12.53! \| first editions
6	Novels more books like this by Wilhelm Raabe, Volkmar Sander (Editor), Joel Agee (Foreword by) see all copies from £4.64! new only from £11.26!
7	Letters to Barbara more books like this by Leo Meter, Joel Agee (Translator) The real letters sent by a father to his four-year-old daughter during World War II. Barbara and her family were living in Holland when her parents were forced to separate because of their 'mixed' marraige--her father was German, her mother Jewish. Barbara's father moves to Amsterdam (coincidentally next to the house where Anne Frank and her ... see all copies from £2.82! new only from £8.44! \| first editions
8	Friedrich Durrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 2, Fictions more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Theodore Ziolkowski (Editor), Joel Agee (Translator) The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (19211;90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, ... see all copies from £18.78! new only from £22.32!
9	Twelve Years: An American Boyhood in East Germany more books like this by Joel Agee Joel Agee, the son of James Agee, was raised for twelve years in East Germany, where his stepfather, the novelist Bodo Uhse, was a member of the privileged communist intelligentsia. This is the story of how young Joel failed to become a good communist, becoming instead a fine writer. "A wonderfully evocative memoir. . . . Agee evoked for me the ... see all copies from £7.45! new only from £12.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Selected Writings more books like this by Professor Robert Musil, Burton Pike (Editor), Joel Agee (Foreword by) Writings: Young Torless, Three Women, The Perfecting of a Love and other Writings, by Musil by Robert Musil see all copies from £7.69! new only from £18.35!
11	In the House of My Fear: An Adventure more books like this by Joel Agee Drugs, madness, and a quest for enlightenment are Joel Agee's inheritance from the 1960s. Now sober, he recounts his adventures and knows the ghosts of past terrors--his own and his brother's, who died by his own hand at the age of 27--are still trapped and crying for release. To find them, he must write his way into the house of his fear. see all copies from £5.47! new only from £10.31! \| first editions
12	Letters on Cezanne more books like this by Joel Agee (Translator), Rainer Maria Rilke, Clara Rilke (Editor) These letters from Rilke to his wife chronicle a series of visits to an exhibit of Cézanne's work in the fall of 1907--and of the profound effect the paintings had on him and on his work. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £57.18! \| first editions
13 view cover	Burned Child Seeks the Fire more books like this by Cordelia Edvardson, Joel Agee (Translator) The memoir of a child of the Holocaust. Half-Jewish, the young Evardson was able to protect her mother, but in the process was herself imprisoned at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, where she was rejected by the Jews because of her Catholic upbringing, and where she was made to work for the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. She now lives in Israel ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £9.88!
14 view cover	Friedrich Durrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume 3, Essays more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Kenneth J Northcott (Editor), Joel Agee (Translator) The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, ... see all copies from £10.20! new only from £18.92! \| first editions
15 view cover	Burned Child Seeks Fir more books like this by Cordelia Edvardson, Joel Agee (Translator) The memoir of a child of the Holocaust. Half-Jewish, the young Evardson was able to protect her mother, but in the process was herself imprisoned at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, where she was rejected by the Jews because of her Catholic upbringing, and where she was made to work for the infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. She now lives in Israel ... see all copies from £5.64! new only from £10.94! \| first editions
16 view cover	In the House of My Fear more books like this by Joel Agee Drugs, madness, and a quest for enlightenment are Joel Agee's inheritance from the 1960s. Now sober, he recounts his adventures and knows the ghosts of past terrors--his own and his brother's, who died by his own hand at the age of 27--are still trapped and crying for release. To find them, he must write his way into the house of his fear. see all copies from £7.77! new only from £12.10! \| first editions
17	Poff, the Cat, Or, When We Care more books like this by Joel Agee (Translator), Hartmut Von Hentig, Hartmut Von Hentig see all copies from £5.64! first editions
18	Twelve Years more books like this by Joel Agee see all copies from £7.06! new only from £70.72! \| first editions
19 view cover	Friedrich Durrenmatt: Selected Writings, Volume I, Plays more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Kenneth J Northcott (Editor), Joel Agee (Translator) The Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt (1921-90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a presence in European letters. Yet outside Europe, this prolific author is primarily known for only one work, ... see all copies from £7.12! new only from £22.32! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Secret Heart of the Clock more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Joel Agee (Translator) see all copies from £12.11! new only from £12.11! \| first editions
21	Graphics of the German expressionists more books like this by Serge Sabarsky see all copies from £18.35! first editions
22 view cover	The Inspector Barlach Mysteries: The Judge and His Hangman and Suspicion more books like this by Friedrich Durrenmatt, Joel Agee (Translator), Sven Birkerts (Foreword by) This volume offers bracing new translations of two precursors to the modern detective novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt, whose genre-bending mysteries recall the work of Alain Robbe-Grillet and anticipate the postmodern fictions of Paul Auster and other contemporary neo-noir novelists. Both mysteries follow Inspector Barlach as he moves through worlds ... see all copies from £10.06! new only from £10.06!

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