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1	Crowds and Power more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti Considered one of the great books of the twentieth century Crowds and Power was the work responsible for winning Elias Canetti the 1981 Nobel Prize. From the destructive behaviour of soccer crowds to the horror of tyrannical rulers and from Bushmen and Pueblo Indian rain dances to the pilgrimage to Mecca, the author takes us on a fascinating ... see all copies from £11.48! new only from £11.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Auto Da Fe more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti Auto Da Fe is the story of Peter Kien, a distinguished, reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. With masterly precision, Canetti builds up the elements in Kien himself, and his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction. Between his illiterate and grasping housekeeper, Therese, who has tricked him into marriage, ... see all copies from £5.02! new only from £9.37! \| first editions
3	The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh's bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the ... see all copies from £6.37! new only from £17.97! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	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 £3.74! first editions
5	The torch in my ear more books like this by Elias Canetti This is the second volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, following "The Tongue Set Free" and preceding "The Play of the Eyes". It is above all else an account of his admiration for the first great mentor of his adult years, the Viennese writer Karl Kraus. It is also a portrait of Canetti's first wife, Veza. Within the framework of these great ... see all copies from £1.58! new only from £18.00! \| first editions
6	Earwitness: Fifty Characters more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti see all copies from £6.32! first editions
7	Notes from Hampstead: The Writer's Notes: 1954-1971 more books like this by Elias Canetti, John Hargraves (Translator) In a series of notes, Nobel Prize-winning writer Canetti meditates on religion and myth, ethnicity and creativity, loneliness and fame, and much more. Canetti kept this journal--essentially a writer's diary--between 1954 and 1971, the crucial years in his literary and intellectual life when he was living in London's Hampstead and writing, among ... see all copies from £5.65! new only from £19.77! \| first editions
8	The human province more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £1.94! first editions
9	The play of the eyes more books like this by Elias Canetti This is the third part of Canetti's autobiography. This book finds the author still in his twenties, having been cooped up in a bedsitter on the outskirts of Vienna working on his novel "Auto De Fe". Canetti depicts the intellectual life of the leading bars and cafes of Vienna and creates portraits of many of the leading figures of his day ... see all copies from £2.92! new only from £19.48! \| first editions
10	The Memoirs of Elias Canetti: The Tongue Set Free, the Torch in My Ear, the Play of the Eyes more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti The memoirs of the late Nobel Laureate, for the first time in one volume. The uncompromising achievement of Elias Canetti is one matched by few writers this century. His novel, Auto-da-Fé, and his work of social theory, Crowds and Power, are modern classics, displaying a voracious intellect and exquisite sensibility that belie their author's ... see all copies from £10.31! first editions
11	Kafka's other trial : the letters to Felice more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £5.73! new only from £7.84! \| first editions
12	The Voices of Marrakesh more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, J A Underwood (Translator) Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakesh's bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The book presents vivid images of daily life: the ... see all copies from £7.96! new only from £7.96! \| first editions
13	Auto da fé more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £1.41! new only from £74.14! \| first editions
14	Der Ohrenzeuge: Funfzig Charaktere by Elias Canetti see all copies from £15.89!
15	The conscience of words more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £3.03! new only from £68.00! \| first editions
16	Masse Und Macht by Elias Canetti see all copies from £19.58! new only from £19.58!
17	Kafka's Other Trail: The Letters to Felice more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Christopher Middleton (Translator) see all copies from £6.77! new only from £9.54!
18	Die Fackel Im Ohr: Lebensgeschichte 1921-1931 more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £4.79! new only from £14.89! \| first editions
19	Das Augenspiel: Lebensgeschichte, 1931-1937 more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £1.49! new only from £14.75!
20	The Play of the Eyes: T more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, Ralph Manheim (Translator) The third and last volume of Canetti's autobiography describes the political and literary life in Vienna in the thirties, particularly his friendship with the writers Hermann Broch and Robert Musil. see all copies from £8.48! first editions
21	Essays in Honor of Elias Canetti more books like this by Elias Canetti see all copies from £8.82! first editions
22 view cover	The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti This is the first volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography, preceding "The Torch in My Ear" and "The Play of the Eyes". It provides a searching portrait of Canetti's personal background and creative development as it presents the events, personalities and intellectual forces that shaped the growth of this artist as a young man during his early ... see all copies from £8.34! first editions
23 view cover	Notes from Hampstead more books like this by Professor Elias Canetti, John Hargraves (Translator) In a series of notes, Nobel Prize-winning writer Canetti meditates on religion and myth, ethnicity and creativity, loneliness and fame, and much more. Canetti kept this journal--essentially a writer's diary--between 1954 and 1971, the crucial years in his literary and intellectual life when he was living in London's Hampstead and writing, among ... see all copies from £11.30! new only from £14.80! \| first editions
24 view cover	Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations more books like this by Elias Canetti, H R Broch De Rotherman (Translator) see all copies from £7.68! new only from £132.54! \| first editions
25 view cover	Play of the Eyes: Winner of the 1981 Novel Prize for Literature more books like this by Elias Canetti, Ralph Manheim (Translator) The third and last volume of Canetti's autobiography describes the political and literary life in Vienna in the thirties, particularly his friendship with the writers Hermann Broch and Robert Musil. see all copies from £5.65! first editions

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