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1	The world of yesterday an autobiography more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries. In this autobiography he holds the mirror up to his own age, telling the story of a generation that ... see all copies from £8.09! new only from £11.30! \| first editions
2	Introducing Kafka more books like this by David Zane Mairowitz, Robert Crumb (Illustrator) add to wishlist "What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself". Nothing could better express the essence of Franz Kafka, a man described by his friends as living behind a "glass wall". Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hilarity and self ... see all copies from £3.93! new only from £3.93! \| first editions
3	The Cambridge Companion to Kafka more books like this by Julian Preece (Editor) add to wishlist Franz Kafka s writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe s most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka s writing in ... see all copies from £6.22! new only from £16.10! \| first editions
4	Kafka: A Very Short Introduction more books like this by Professor Ritchie Robertson add to wishlist "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect..." So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story "Metamorphosis". Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime, he worked as a civil servant and ... see all copies from £4.41! new only from £4.41!
5	Franz Kafka more books like this by Jeremy Adler add to wishlist "Penguin Illustrated Lives" is a series of photographic biographies that offers a fresh, intimate portrait of some of our favourite writers. An incisive, lively text is accompanied by over 100 evocative images, many in colour and some previously unpublished, which depict the author's world - family, friends and artistic circle together with ... see all copies from £2.69! new only from £6.15! \| first editions
6	Letters to Milena more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka first made the acquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his work into Czech. Due to their deep attachment, he revealed his diaries, and thus his feelings to her. Although her "genius for living" gave Kafka new life, the relationship came to an end after only two years. see all copies from £8.67! first editions
7	The diaries of Franz Kafka more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's diaries cover the period from 1910 to 1923 and reveal the inner world in which he lived. He describes his fear, isolation and frustration, his feelings of guilt and his sense of being an outcast. He also describes the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry. see all copies from £6.82! new only from £8.25! \| first editions
8	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 add to wishlist 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 £10.53! new only from £66.25! \| first editions
9	Kafka more books like this by David Mairowitz, Robert Crumb, Richard Appignanesi (Editor) add to wishlist A wonderful educational tool for those unfamiliar with Kafka, this volume includes a brief but inclusive biography as well as the plots of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, making this newly designed edition a must-have for admirers of both Kafka and Crumb. Young Adult. see all copies from £8.21! new only from £8.21!
10	Wittgenstein's Nephew more books like this by Professor Thomas Bernhard add to wishlist This novel is based on Bernhard's own friendship with the nephew of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. see all copies from £5.34! new only from £5.34! \| first editions
11	Kafka more books like this by Klaus Wagenbach, Ewald Osers (Translator), Professor Ritchie Robertson (Introduction by) add to wishlist In Kafka's writing, Albert Camus tells us, we travel "to the limits of human thought." And in this book, the world's leading Kafka authority conducts us to the deepest reaches of Kafka's own troubled psyche, to reveal the inner workings of the man who gave his name to a central facet of modern experience, the Kafkaesque. Klaus Wagenbach, who wrote ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24!
12	The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka more books like this by Ernst Pawel add to wishlist A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £78.60! \| first editions
13 view cover	Letters to Felice more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer were written between 1912 and 1917, during which time they were twice engaged to be married. This complex relationship, which coincided with a period of great productivity for Kafka, gave him both hope and strength, but gradually disllusionment and the onset of illness drove them apart. These letters remain as a ... see all copies from £7.53! new only from £42.11! \| first editions
14 view cover	Snows of Yesteryear more books like this by Gregor Von Rezzori, Gregor Von Rezzori, H F Broch De Rothermann (Translator) add to wishlist The Snows Of Yesteryear is an uncompromising account of Gregor von Rezzori's aristocratic childhood in Romania in the days before World War II. see all copies from £2.77! new only from £11.12! \| first editions
15 view cover	Wittgenstein's nephew : a friendship more books like this by Thomas Bernhard add to wishlist A novel in biographical form in which Thomas Bernhard relates his deepening relationship with Ludwig Wittgenstein's nephew, Paul. see all copies from £24.77! new only from £89.59! \| first editions
16	Letters to Milena more books like this by Franz Kafta, Franz Kafka, Sara Bershtel (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £17.86! new only from £109.01!
17	Ltrs to Ottla/Kafka more books like this by Franz Kafka add to wishlist see all copies from £10.44! first editions
18 view cover	Nightmare of Reason more books like this by Ernst Pawel add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £20.87! \| first editions
19 view cover	World of Yesterday more books like this by Stefan Zweig add to wishlist "The autobiography of the internationally famous biographer and dramatist is a chronicle of three ages: the golden days of Vienna that ended with Word War I; that war and its aftermath; and the Hitler years. The three ages do come to life in Zweig's book."--Publishers Weekly see all copies from £14.46! new only from £19.81! \| first editions
20 view cover	Kafka: The Decisive Years more books like this by Reiner Stach, Shelley Frisch (Translator) add to wishlist This is the first of a three-volume, definitive biography of Kafka who, eighty years after his death in 1924, remains one of the most intriguing figures in the history of world literature. Now, after a decade's research, Stach recreates the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915. These are the years of Kafka's fascination ... see all copies from £6.57! new only from £9.91! \| first editions
21	Kafka CL more books like this by Frederick Karl add to wishlist This definitive biography of one of the world's greatest writers is also a vivid and authoritative picture of the historical, cultural, and artistic world from which Kafka rose. An invaluable contribution to literary studies and the history of culture. Photographs. see all copies from £5.48! new only from £5.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Anecdotage: A Summation more books like this by Gregor Von Rezzori, Hregor Von Rezzori, Gregor Von Rezzori add to wishlist On the eve of his 80th birthday. Von Rezzori revisited the land of his childhood, the Bukovina, once part of the Austo-Hungarian Empire, and now suffering the aftershocks of the fall of Communism. We then follow Von Rezzori on a trip across the landscape of his past, including Berlin, Tuscany, and Hamburg. see all copies from £15.13! new only from £124.90!
23 view cover	Robert Musil & the culture of Vienna more books like this by Hannah Hickman add to wishlist see all copies from £6.87! new only from £18.36! \| first editions
24 view cover	Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life more books like this by James Hawes add to wishlist In this humorous but fact-based work, Hawes aims to bring down the critical walls surrounding Kafka, tear him from the clutches of academia, and restore him to the popular audience this misunderstood author deserves. Illustrated. see all copies from £7.18! new only from £7.37! \| first editions
25 view cover	Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian more books like this by Gitta Honegger add to wishlist Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria's greatest post-World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country's pathological denial of complicity in the Holocaust. Bernhard's writings and indeed his own biography reflect Austria's fraught efforts to define ... see all copies from £13.63! new only from £19.30! \| first editions

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