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By Philippe Thiebaut Gustav Klimt’s visionary talent comes alive in this sumptuous book that features 90 impeccably reproduced works including 6 stunningly detailed fold-out spreads. This stunning volume offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to explore Klimt’s artistry through iconic works such as The Kiss, The Three Ages of Woman, Judith I, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. These large-scale fold-outs reveal intricate details, transforming the book into an immersive journey through Klimt’s extraordinary use of color, pattern, and ornamentation. Philippe Thiébaut’s insightful text incorporates the latest research on Klimt and the historical context of his work, adding depth and perspective. Elegantly designed with a canvas cover, colored edges, and exceptional production quality, the book showcases Klimt’s groundbreaking vision with remarkable clarity. From the golden brilliance of Hope II to the ethereal beauty of Water Serpents I, each page invites readers to explore the textures and emotional resonance that define his style. With its thoughtful design and captivating imagery, this volume brings Klimt’s artistic world to life, illustrating how he transformed portraiture and landscapes into striking symbolic masterpieces. Perfect for both devoted fans and those discovering Klimt for the first time, it offers an essential and unforgettable look at one of Modernism’s most celebrated figures. Hardcover176 pagesPrestel, 20258.75 x 11.75 inchesISBN 9783791393995Monograph

Klimt: The Bigger Picture

By Bernadette Wörndl The coffee houses in early 20th-century Vienna were the second living room for artists, intellectuals, and dessert lovers of all kinds. This was a place to relax; discuss; and, above all, indulge! Amid this sophisticated atmosphere, confectioner Therese Schulz pampered guests of the former Vienna Grand Hotel with her sweet craftsmanship—and meticulously documented her recipes. One hundred years later, family members rediscovered these records in the attic and entrusted them to the expert hands of recipe developer Bernadette Wörndl, who brings these recipes to life on the page today. The result is this unique baking book, with over 75 divine confectionery recipes. From Viennese classics like Vanillekipferl (vanilla crescent cookies) and Sachertorte (rich chocolate cake) to nostalgic delicacies like marmalade Swiss rolls or a strawberry cream torte, this book will delight lovers of Austrian sweets and pastries. With a mix of atmospheric recipe pictures, excerpts from Therese’s original recipe book, and nostalgic historic photography, The Viennese Bakery is a delicious, inspiring, and enticing culinary flight of fancy. Hardcover224 pagesDK, 20267.5 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9798217305797Cookbooks, Viennese Baking

Viennese Bakery: Classic Desserts from Vienna's Café Culture

A high-quality blank sketchbook with sprayed edges and cloth-bound cover will delight artists and art lovers alike. Crafted for artists and admirers of fine art, this refined blank sketchbook showcases on its cover a delicate detail from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss. Inside, the pages are high-quality, unruled paper, providing a pristine canvas for sketches, drawings, or notes. The edges of the pages are sprayed, adding an extra touch of elegance to this already exquisite package. This sketchbook seamlessly blends artistic inspiration with practicality, making it an elegant and useful tool for creative minds, especially those who appreciate Klimt’s work and want to be inspired by his artistry every time they open to a new page. Its luxurious design makes it a perfect gift for art lovers, adding a touch of sophistication to their collection of art supplies. Hardcover128 pagesPrestel, 20256.5 x 0.68 x 9.25 inchesISBN 9783791391885Art Supplies, Sketchbook

The Kiss: Gustav Klimt Artist's Sketchbook

By Sally CarsonPreface by Laura Freeman Crooked Cross describes, through the eyes of one ordinary family, the Nazis’ growth in power between December 1932 and August 1933. It is extraordinarily prescient, anticipating all the horrors they were about to inflict on the world, and in this respect it joins a small group of novels, PB no. 39 Manja and PB no. 136 The Oppermanns among them, which were written to try to alert the world to what was happening. The main focus of the novel is on disaffected German youth: it shows with great subtlety that by the early 1930s there was huge unemployment, and a corresponding feeling of futility, and that what the Nazis did so skillfully was to provide a sense of purpose. Crooked Cross is an incisive account on why some young men who feel disaffected, lost or ignored turn towards authoritarian governments. Hardcover380 pagesPersephone Press, 2025Originally published in 19345.51 x 1.1 x 7.48 inchesISBN 9781910263426Literature

Crooked Cross

PEPIN Gift & Creative Paper Books all contain 4 introductory pages and 12 large sheets of very high-quality paper. These sheets can be easily removed from the books by tearing them along the perforated line. The sheets are folded to fit into the book; when removed and opened they measure about 50 cm x 70 cm (19½ inch x 27½ inch; a standard size for gift wrapping papers). PEPIN papers will make your gift package look special. In addition, our papers are suitable many forms of paper craft. Paperback12 large sheets Pepin Press, 2018 13.66 x 9.92 inchesISBN 9789460090998Wrapping Paper

Art Nouveau Gift and Creative Papers

Original Price: $26.99 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS "All Quiet on the Western Front" was the focus of our Literatur Café event in January 2026. To buy tickets to future events and find out more, please visit our Programs page here.By Erich Maria RemarqueTranslated by Kurt Beals 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 novel of all time. Its impact is indisputable: it has been adapted for film, television, and other media; has influenced all subsequent works of war literature; and has been taught in high school and college classes ever since. Until now, one translation—published in 1929, and very much a product of its time—has introduced most readers in English to Remarque's wrenching portrait of the horrors of trench warfare. Now, nearly a century later, renowned translator Kurt Beals recaptures the energy and descriptive force of the German original, rendering Remarque's distinctly terse, telegraphic prose into a contemporary idiom, conveying for a new generation the immediacy and intensity of this classic novel. Hardcover240 pagesLiveright Publishing, 20255.8 x 0.9 x 8.6 inchesISBN 9781324006930Literature, Historical Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front [Hardcover]

by Hans Christian Adam “It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that photographers in the know have been waiting for this book.” ―The New York Times German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th- and 20th-century worlds of image-making and bring a distinctly sculptural aspect to a firmly two-dimensional art form. Beautifully but starkly composed against plain cardboard backgrounds, Blossfeldt’s images, relying on a northern light for their sense of volume, reveal nothing of the man but everything of themselves. They are still life's, piercingly final statements on their subject, and have endured owing to their aesthetics and the ongoing fascination of students and photographers. Like their maker, they are quietly and lastingly effective. Hardcover512 pagesTaschen America Llc, 20246.1 x 8.5 inches ISBN 9783836598514Monographs, Photography

Karl Blossfeldt: The Complete Published Work. 40th Ed.

Edited with text by Megan Fontanella. Foreword by Mariët Westermann. Text by Victoria Horrocks, Isabelle Jansen, Iris Müller-Westermann, Dorothy Price. A new look at a vanguard modernist artist who reimagined the still life, landscape and portrait genres This landmark publication coincides with the major Guggenheim New York exhibition of works by the remarkable German Expressionist Gabriele Münter. Münter’s painting practice between 1908 and 1920 is the central focus of the exhibition and accompanying book. The study also illuminates her lesser-known later work and includes significant examples of her photography taken during earlier extensive travels in the United States. Münter was notably a cofounder of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a loose and transnational confederation of progressive artists and other creatives, with whom she probed the expressive potential of color and the symbolic resonance of forms. Her introspective portraits during World War II capture the “new woman” and explore questions of gender identity. Highlighting more than 90 paintings, drawings and photographs, this publication not only traces Münter’s pioneering and understudied practice but also challenges accepted historical narratives that have tended to sideline women artists. Reproductions of archival material appear alongside choice selections of the artist's sketches, prints and reverse glass paintings. Thematic texts by renowned scholars explore identity, place, belonging and the embodied experience of modernist women artists during this period. Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) was at the forefront of the German avant-garde in the early 20th century and exhibited extensively at galleries and salons throughout Europe during her lifetime. Along with her artistic colleague and one-time partner, Vasily Kandinsky, Münter was a founder of the influential Expressionist group of artists, Der Blaue Reiter. Hardcover176 pagesGuggenheim Museum, 20258.75 x 10.75 inchesISBN 9780892075690 Monographs

Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World

Von Anne Funck Illustriert von Philip Loersch Hg. Magdalena M. Moeller Mit acht Berliner Sehenswürdigkeiten für Ausflüge mit Kindern Wer ein Tigerkleid anhat, sollte auch tigern - da sind sich Marcella und ihre Katze einig. Mit ihrem roten Flitzeroller starten sie eine Spritztour durch Berlin, treffen alte und neue Bekannte, verlieren dies und das, aber nie ihre gute Laune. Warum auch? Denn unterwegs zu sein, ist immer spannend: bei den Tieren im Zoo, im "Zauberhaus" KaDeWe, mit der Katzenbande auf dem Winterfeldtmarkt, am Brandenburger Tor, die Spree hinab, auf Tauchgang im Wannsee und im Großstadtdschungel Botanischer Garten. Hardcover40 pagesHirmer Verlag, 20179.7 x 0.47 x 11.3 inchesISBN 9783943616439Children's

Marcella Tigert Durch Berlin

By Otfried Preußler Translated by Anthea Bell Illustrated by F.J. Tripp The Little Ghost is a well-known German children’s book by famous writer Otfried Preußler. In this edition, readers of all ages can follow a funny story about a very friendly little ghost and his friend Schuhu, the eagle owl. The little ghost lived in an old oak chest in a cobwebbed corner of an attic in an old castle. He was one of those harmless little ghosts who haunt places by night, and never hurt anyone unless they are provoked. He enjoyed haunting, but he did so wish he could see the town by day instead of by night. Then one day it happened. But a town by daylight is no place for a little ghost… Paperback137 pagesThienemann Verlag, 20015.6 x 0.6 x 8 inchesISBN 9783522174404Children's Books

The Little Ghost

By Larry Wolff "[A] masterful intellectual history of the province."—Timothy Snyder, New York Review of Books "Wolff's way of telling the story of how the idea of Galicia evolved throughout the nineteenth century is a dense narrative in which a variety of sources are related or juxtaposed to create multiple contexts—historical, political, social, intellectual, cultural. . . The scope and quality of Larry Wolff's scholarship makes The Idea of Galicia an impressive achievement. Not only has the author made a major contribution to the history of Galicia and to historiography, but he has also set a high standard for historical writing."—Jolanta Pekacz, Canadian Journal of History Galicia was created at the first partition of Poland in 1772 and disappeared in 1918. Yet, in slightly over a century, the idea of Galicia came to have meaning for both the peoples who lived there and the Habsburg government that ruled it. Indeed, its memory continues to exercise a powerful fascination for those who live in its former territories and for the descendants of those who emigrated out of Galicia. The idea of Galicia was largely produced by the cultures of two cities, Lviv and Cracow. Making use of travelers' accounts, newspaper reports, and literary works, Wolff engages such figures as Emperor Joseph II, Metternich, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Ivan Franko, Stanisław Wyspiański, Tadeusz "Boy" Żeleński, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and Bruno Schulz. He shows the exceptional importance of provincial space as a site for the evolution of cultural meanings and identities, and analyzes the province as the framework for non-national and multi-national understandings of empire in European history. Paperback 504 pagesStanford University Press; 1st edition, 20126 x 1.25 x 9 inchesISBN 9780804783125European History

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture

Von Max Frisch Max Frischs Homo faber ist eines der wichtigsten und meistgelesenen Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts: Der Ingenieur Walter Faber glaubt an sein rationales Weltbild, das aber durch eine 'Liebesgeschichte' nachhaltig zerbricht. Taschenbuch208 SeitenText in GermanSuhrkamp Verlag, 2025Originally Published in 19574.29 x 0.79 x 6.89 inchesISBN 9783518368541Literature

Homo Faber

Von Sandra Richter and Anna Kinder »Der Dichter und seine floralen Vorlieben, kundig erklärt, liebevoll illustriert und mit klugen Analysen in Beziehung gesetzt vor allem zu seinen Gedichten. « -Tilman Krause, WELT AM SONNTAG »Einen interessanten, nicht jedem bekannten Aspekt von Rilkes Leben hat Sandra Richter in einem ... Buch beleuchtet – einem lesenswerten[:] Rilke als Gärtner.«-Dieter Kaltwasser, General Anzeiger Bonn Die erste Einführung in Rilkes Pflanzen- und Blumenkosmos mit vielen bisher unbekannten Texten und Bildern Es ist »die Liebe […,] die Blumen zwischen die Seiten« der Bücher legt, schrieb Rilke Ende November 1904 seiner Ersatzmutter, der berühmten schwedischen Pädagogin Ellen Key, und betonte weiter, dass diese »immer an dieser Stelle bleiben sollen«. Zeitlebens verzierte er seine Bücher mit solchen Zeichen der Liebe, bedichtete Blumen, die ihm als Lebens- und Liebeszeichen galten, entwickelte, pflegte und nutzte seinen eigenen Garten in Schloss Muzot, seinem letzten Lebens- und Arbeitsort. Rilkes Auseinandersetzung mit der Pflanzenwelt zeigt ihn als Gärtner im doppelten Sinne: Als botanisierenden Autor und als tatsächlichen Gärtner – als Pflanzensammler, Blumeneinkäufer, botanisch informierten Naturbeobachter und, nach Verfertigung seines großen Spätwerks, als tätigen Gärtner. Der 2022 durch das Deutsche Literaturarchiv Marbach erworbene private Nachlass Rilkes bezeugt erstmals umfassend die Blumen- und Naturbegeisterung des Autors, kenntnisreich kommentiert von Sandra Richter, Autorin der großen Rilke-Biographie im Insel Verlag, und Anna Kinder. Fester Einband110 Seiten, Mit zahlreichen AbbildungenInsel Verlag GmbH, 20257.2 x 4.8 inchesISBN 9783458195542 Literature, Books in German

Rilke als Gartner

By Ken Krimstein “Clever, charming, amusing, and just plain brilliant. Ken Krimstein is the most inventive graphic biographer on the planet-and certainly the only one who could explain both Einstein and Kafka. A page turner on gravity and relativity!” —KAI BIRD, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of American Prometheus, the biography that inspired the Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer“For the science-challenged, it comes as a relief and a delight to have gravity and relativity explained in Ken Krimstein's marvelously inventive graphic novel.” ―The New York Sun “[Krimstein] engagingly chronicles a significant time period for both [Einstein and Kafka] . . . A fun, amusing fantasy about an important year in two icons' lives.” ―Kirkus Reviews From the award-winning New Yorker cartoonist, a graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became “Einstein,” Franz Kafka became “Kafka,” and the world changed forever. During the year that Prague was home to both Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka from 1911-1912, the trajectory of the two men's lives wove together in uncanny ways-as did their shared desire to tackle the world's biggest questions in Europe's strangest city. In stunning words and pictures, Einstein in Kafkaland reveals the untold story of how their worlds wove together in a cosmic battle for new kinds of truth. For Einstein, his lost year in Prague set him on the path to what many consider the greatest scientific discovery of all time, his General Theory of Relativity. And for Kafka, this charmed year was a bridge to writing his first masterpiece, The Judgment. Based on diaries, lectures, letters, and papers from this period amid a planet electrifying itself into modernity, Einstein in Kafkaland brings to life the emergence of a new world where art and science come together in ways we still grapple with today. Hardcover224 pagesBloomsbury, 20246.85 x 9.05 inchesISBN 9781635579536Graphic Novels, Biography

Einstein in Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up with the Universe

By Theodor FontaneTranslated by Peter James Bowman PERFECT FOR FANS OF JANE AUSTEN: A seamstress and cavalry officer fall in love across class divides in this “sparkling, tender, delicately ironic” portrait of 19th-century Berlin (New York Review of Books). “A joy for its humanity, subtlety and visual immediacy.”—Independent From Germany’s greatest 19th-century novelist, this realist masterpiece interrogates the strict social codes of a rapidly changing era through a wistful struggle between love and obligation. Lene is an orphaned seamstress; Botho is a nobleman and an officer in one of the Prussian army’s most glittering regiments. But despite their differences of class and education, they fall quickly in love, spending a summer together in a clear-eyed, tender love affair before society’s demands force them cruelly apart. Now married to a wealthy cousin, Botho learns years later that Lene too has an opportunity to marry. Her ex-lover must choose between holding on to regret or letting go of the past – along with the possibility of getting Lene herself back. Unusually progressive for literature of the period, this masterwork of Fontane’s portrays a love story that defies class boundaries, full of tender irony and vivid evocations of a quickly expanding Berlin and its bucolic surroundings. Fontane bring sharp psychological insight to his achingly sympathetic portrayal of two lovers torn between their hearts and the obligations of social circumstance. Paperback 208 pages Pushkin Press Classics, 20265.08 x 7.76 inchesISBN 9781805331612Literature

On Tangled Paths

Pepin Press’ Watercolour Postcard Books contain 16 cards made of the finest 250 gsm watercolour paper. The paper is acid-free, FSC-certified and quite thick to make the cards suitable for mailing. They are a joy to colour with a wide range of techniques, such as watercolour, ink, colour pencil, crayon, etc. All our colouring books match the quality the quality of the finest professional colouring pads. In order to get the best results, we recommend the use of high-quality colouring materials. Paperback16 pagesPepin Press, 20244 x 6 inchesISBN 9789460096358Activity Book, Watercolor Art

Floral Images: Watercolor Postcard Book

By Ernst Toller Translated by Drew Lichtenberg Hoppla, We're Alive is a landmark drama of the Weimar Republic and one of the founding works of what would become known as a powerful portrait of a fragile democracy at war with itself, inevitably corrupted from within by the rising forces of capitalism and fascism. Toller's main character Karl Thomas, a participant in the failed Communist revolution of 1919, has spent eight years in a mental hospital. Released into the much-changed Germany of 1927, Thomas encounters each of his former comrades in a world where all of the lessons of the first World War and the revolution seem to have been forgotten. Building to a powerful and tragic climax, Toller’s play has lost none of its power to shock, provoke, and awaken readers. Paperback86 pagesBerlinica Publishing, 20195 x 8 inchesISBN 9783960260424Theater

Hoppla, We're Alive!

By Erich KästnerIllustrated by Walter TrierTranslated by Anthea Bell The book behind the world-famous film — in a new translation by Anthea Bell Luise has ringlets. Lottie has braids. Apart from that they look exactly the same. But they are sure that they have never set eyes on each other in their lives. When the two girls meet at a summer camp and discover the secret behind their similarity, they decide to switch places. Everyone is fooled (apart from the dog) and, despite a few mistakes and misadventures, everything goes to plan for Luise as Lottie and Lottie as Luise – until their father meets a young, beautiful woman and things start to unravel… Funny, moving, affectionate and improbable, The Parent Trap has twice been adapted for film – but the book remains one of the great classics of German children’s literature. Paperback144 pagesAge range: 8-12 yearsPushkin Children's Books, 20255.08 x 7.8 inchesISBN 9781805331704Children's Books

The Parent Trap

By Irmgard KeunTranslated by Kathie von Ankum “A highly original, extremely stylish novel...The narrator is a young woman whose irreverent and funny voice you will not easily forget.” —Daniel Kehlmann, New York Times Book Review “A young girl navigates interwar German society and the expectations—or lack thereof—placed upon women, in this poignant, melancholy novel from the late Keun…[This] heartbreaking story of dashed hopes is one that still has the power to affect and inspire.” —Publishers Weekly This enthralling tale of a “material girl” in 1930s Berlin is the masterpiece of a literary icon, rediscovered and restored to the same heights as such luminaries as Isherwood and Brecht. In 1931 a young woman writer living in Germany penned her answer to Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and the era of cinematic glamour: The Artificial Silk Girl. Though a Nazi censorship board banned Irmgard Keun’s work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies, the novel survived, as fresh and relevant today as the day it was written. The Artificial Silk Girl is the story of Doris, beautiful and striving, who vows to write down all that happens to her as the star of her own life story. But instead of scripting what she hopes will be a quick rise to fame and fortune as either an actress or the mistress/wife of a wealthy man, she describes a slow descent into near prostitution and homelessness. Prewar Berlin is not the dazzling and exciting city of promise it seems; Doris unwittingly reveals a bleak, seamy urban landscape. Paperback224 pagesOther Press, 20255.24 x 8 inchesISBN 9781635425086Fiction, Literature

The Artificial Silk Girl: A Novel

By Paul KleeTexts by Michael Baumgartner, Dr. Christine Hopfengart, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Osamu Okuda Back in print, the most authoritative overview on the beloved Bauhaus Renaissance man and pioneer of abstraction, the first artist to "take a line for a walk" Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most important representatives of modern art. His oeuvre is as universal as it is individual, standing tall among all of the currents and "isms" of his day. His overwhelming body of paintings, drawings, and other visual works; his letters, journal entries, and, last but not least, his teaching notes form the background for this pointed depiction of the life and work of the meditative artist and visual thinker. This richly illustrated volume traces Klee's eventful biography, ranging from his artistic beginnings with caricature-like drawings and nudes, his encounter with the avant-garde and the famous watercolors from his journey to Tunisia, the abstract color compositions from the Bauhaus era, to the mysterious, inventive images of his last years in Bern. Hardcover344 pages, 488 photosHatje Cantz, 202010.1 x 11.7 inchesISBN 9783775747196Monographs

Paul Klee: Life and Work

By Frank Meier, Edited by Philippe Collin, Cover Design or Artwork by Delius This volume is the ultimate bartender’s manual—a delightful concoction of vintage cocktails with Art Deco style and glamour. Originally self-published in 1936 and offered only to a select group of Meier’s friends and favorite guests, this edition is enhanced by stylish, vintage-inspired illustrations. With over 300 recipes, this is Meier’s personal mixology bible. While all the classics are here, it includes many of Meier’s own creations such as the Bees Knees (a gin sour where honey replaces simple syrup) and the Seapea Fizz (created for Cole Porter, whose initials provided its name). Also included are all manner of libations—sours, toddies, flips, egg nogs, slings, fizzes, coolers, rickeys, juleps, punches, and some nonalcoholic drinks—as well as extensive coverage of wines, eaux de vies, and even stylish sandwiches. Laced throughout are Meier’s wit and wisdom, life lessons, etiquette, and invaluable advice on a range of topics from horseracing to how to help with a snakebite. A fixture of Parisian nightlife, Meier was especially popular with US expats and visitors including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Noël Coward, and Cole Porter. He even served passionate martini aficionado Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hardcover176 pagesRizzoli, 20255 1/4 x 8 inchesISBN 9780847847860Culinaria

The Art of Cocktails: By The Legendary Bartender at the Ritz

By Emily Hall. Illustrations by Victoria Semykina A colorful exploration of the artwork and influences of Anni Albers—who changed our ideas about art and craft—this engaging book introduces young readers to the fundamentals of weaving and the world of textiles. Bert, a plucky but sometimes lazy bird, wakes up one morning to discover that his nest has fallen apart. After an unsuccessful search for a quick fix, he finds himself in the studio of the legendary artist Anni Albers, who shows him how to weave a home that’s both useful and beautiful. Hardcover40 pagesMuseum of Modern Art, 20259.25 x 12 inchesISBN 9781633451469Children

Anni & Bert: A Weaving Story

By Helen Wolff and Marion Detjen Translated by Tristram Wolff and Jefferson Chase A lush autobiographical story of young love, 1930s Côte d’Azur, and rising fascism in Nazi Germany—by the famed publisher of Calvino, Pasternak, and Gunter Grass “Wolff may not have wanted her book to be seen by outside eyes, but her summer of love is a tale so rich, evocative and forbidden, it is irresistible.”—British Vogue In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover leave 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Côte d’Azur. As they drive along stunning bays, linger over sumptuous meals and steal kisses on the street, they seem marvelously in sync, each enchanted by the other. But as she observes her lover’s wandering eye and rigid world-view, the woman decides to leave in search of a cottage of her own near Saint-Tropez. There, amid the vineyards and lemon trees, she will forge startling new connections and pass an unforgettable summer of independence and freedom. Background for Love is an irresistible autobiographical novel by the great publisher Helen Wolff, who together with her husband, Kurt Wolff, Kafka’s first publisher, set up Pantheon Books in America after fleeing Nazi Germany. In the fascinating companion essay, historian Marion Detjen, the author’s great-niece, delves into Helen’s path to writing and the autobiographical context of the novel in her early life with Kurt. Helen is remembered as a great publisher, a multilingual reader who brought authors such as Italo Calvino and Georges Simenon to English-speaking readers – only now is her own reputation as a writer coming to the fore. Recently recovered from the archive and translated for the 1st time by Tristram Wolff, the author’s grandson, this is a a fast-paced, highly intense, and emotionally gripping novel of passion and self-discovery. Paperback256 pagesPushkin Press Classics, 20255.06 x 7.76 inches ISBN 9781805330745Literature, Historical Fiction

Background for Love

By Walter SernerIntroduction and translation by Erik Butler "These ‘outlandish’ stories relate casual pranks and complicated grifts that are by turns comic and calamitous: some read like games of Cluedo with the players amped up on coke, while others suggest scenes pulled from a film noir, a genre they anticipate by twenty years."―London Review of Books, Hal Foster "At the Blue Monkey offers pieces of a life that don’t fit together, its mystery never solved. There’s no closure to speak of, but if it raises any questions about the nature of fiction and life, its job is done." ―Spectrum Culture, Pat Padua Walter Serner’s first story collection, published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto/handbook, Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Who Wish to Be One—life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted, At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex-doctor and renounced Dadaist as a literary “Maupaussant of crime” and offers in this first English translation 33 stories of criminals, con artists and prostitutes engaged in varieties of financial insolvency, embezzlement, sexual hijinks, long and short cons, and dalliances with venereal diseases and drugs. Told in a baroque, sometimes baffling poetry of underworld slang in an urban world of bars and rent-a-rooms, these short tales are presented to the reader like so many three-card Montes in which readers come to realize too late that they may well themselves be the literary mark. Paperback192 pagesWakefield Press, 20205.5 x 8 inchesISBN 9781939663467Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

At The Blue Monkey: 33 Outlandish Stories

By Damien Lewis “Damien Lewis chronicles [Josephine Baker] with much fresh detail… What most beguiles us today is the sense that a proud revolutionary lurked beneath the winsome savage, the snowy smile. Spycraft wasn’t so much what Baker did as who she was.” ―The New Yorker “Mr. Lewis is a prolific author of wartime histories and novels… Agent Josephine is a fascinating story, thoroughly researched and richly detailed… Written in the breathless style of a thriller.” ―Wall Street Journal “Damien Lewis journeyed down the rabbit hole of arcane European archives to piece together the elusive tale of Josephine Baker’s French espionage service during World War II. The result, which evokes the sensuous glamour of Baker’s expatriate superstardom, is 400 pages of bravery and heroism that read like a spy novel you can’t put down.” ―Vanity Fair The thrilling account of how Josephine Baker, the world’s richest and most glamorous entertainer, became an Allied spy in Occupied France A Vanity Fair and The New Yorker Best Book of the Year In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers the extraordinary story of Josephine Baker’s transformation from Paris performer to dauntless spy. Throughout World War II, using her stardom as a cloak for her secret work, Baker undertook daring clandestine missions to fight the Nazis, stamping an indelible mark on history. Drawing on a plethora of new material and rigorous research, including previously undisclosed letters and journals, Lewis upends the conventional story of the renowned performer, revealing why she fully deserves her unique place in the French Panthéon. Paperback 512 pagesPublicAffairs, 20235.45 x 1.28 x 8.25 inches ISBN 9781541700673History, Biography

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

By Thomas Mann Edited by Ritchie RobertsonTranslated by Simon Pare 'Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air--this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories...' Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain (1924) is a social comedy with tragic overtones, providing a portrait of Europe in the first decades of the twentieth century. The novel recounts how an apparently simple North German engineer, Hans Castorp, comes to a tuberculosis sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, intending to visit his sick cousin, and ends up staying for seven years. He matures intellectually and emotionally, encountering love and death amid a cast of vivid characters who are portrayed with Dickensian humour and sophisticated irony, until he is jerked out of his torpor by the outbreak of the First World War. This translation is accompanied by an accessible introduction by Ritchie Robertson, and detailed notes explaining the many cultural and historical references in the text. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. Paperback 798 pages Oxford University Press, 20265.12 x 1.58 x 7.87 inches ISBN 9780198889175Literature

The Magic Mountain (Oxford World's Classics)

By E.T.A HoffmannTranslated by J.T. Bealby, Thomas Carlyle "The godfather of modern horror and fantasy… Hoffmann’s true sorcery is his ability to transfer his characters’ private experiences into the reader. His stories teach us to respect the uncanny depths inside of any “ordinary” human being." —New York Review of Books "Hoffman was the true inventor … of so much that makes literature pleasurable." —Gilbert Adair Three uncanny tales from a master of macabre fantasy whose work inspired Kafka and Poe, translated by J.T. Bealby and Thomas Carlyle. This collection of three uncanny tales highlights the best of a 19th-century German author who is seen by many as the father of modern sci-fi and fantasy. In “The Sandman”, young Nathanael grows up terrified of a legendary figure who will steal his eyes if he’s caught out of bed at night – but it’s only when Nathanael has grown to adulthood, seemingly settled and happy, that the full, terrifying truth unfolds. A living doll, a series of doppelgangers, and the seeds of madness combine in this classic story of self-destruction. “The Cremona Violin” also deals with obsession and thwarted desire, this time between an overbearing father and a musically talented daughter who may die of heart failure if she unleashes the full power of her extraordinary voice. Suppressed passion and possessive control prove a fatal mix in this powerful and claustrophobic story. “The Golden Pot”, meanwhile, is a novella-length tale which Hoffmann believed was his masterpiece. Disturbing, exciting and dream-like, it introduces us to the bumbling Anselmus, whose romantic tribulations are complicated by a witch’s curse and the fact that he’s in love with a girl who also happens to be a snake. Influential in the worlds of both literature and music during his lifetime, Hoffmann’s doppelgangers, unattainable love objects and sinister puppet masters have lived on, becoming key figures in the modern imagination. Paperback 208 pagesPushkin Press, 20265.02 x 0.64 x 7.77 inchesISBN 9781805680666Literature

The Sandman and Other Weird Tales

By Katharina Günther Loud, provocative and scathingly mordant – how Dada held a mirror up to society This book celebrates Dada, the art movement founded 110 years ago but whose subversive political engagement remains highly relevant today. With a keen eye and biting satire, Dada produced forceful critiques while examining political and social conditions. Featuring works by the most important Dada artists, this volume presents a multifaceted portrait of the movement and its many forms of expression, including painting, photography, theatre, dance, literature and satire. An international group of experts recount the history of Dada from its beginnings in 1916 through to the 1930s. The volume focuses on the movement’s political motives and social activities, which served to unite this heterogeneous group of visual artists, writers and theatre personalities. Emerging from the experience of the First World War, Dada artists issued urgent warnings about the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. The book vividly demonstrates how vital artistic voices can be in resisting inhumane and anti-democratic tendencies. "Das Buch zeigt die Aktualität des politischen Engagements der Dadaist:innen und ebenso eindrücklich, wie wichtig Kunst als Seismograf für menschenfeindliche und antidemokratische Entwicklungen ist." (Bernd Hüttner, CONTRASTE) Das Buch feiert die Kunstbewegung Dada zum 110. Geburtstag und zeigt die Aktualität ihres politischen Engagements. Mit scharfem Blick und beißender Satire übte Dada Gesellschaftskritik und hinterfragte politische wie soziale Zustände. Mit Werken der wichtigsten Dada-Künstler:innen bietet der Band ein facettenreiches Bild der Bewegung und ihrer vielfältigen Ausdrucksformen, darunter Malerei, Fotografie, Theater, Tanz, Literatur und Satire. Internationale Expert:innen erzählen die Geschichte des Dada von der Gründung 1916 bis zu den 1930er- Jahren. Im Fokus stehen die politische Motivation und Aktivität der Bewegung, welche die heterogene Gruppe aus bildenden Künstlern, Literaten und Theaterleuten maßgeblich verband. Aus der Erfahrung des Ersten Weltkriegs kommend, warnten die Dada-Künstler:innen vehement vor der aufziehenden nationalsozialistischen Diktatur. Eindrücklich zeigt das Buch, wie wichtig die Stimme der Kunst – auch heute noch – in der Abwehr menschenfeindlicher und antidemokratischer Strömungen ist. Hardcover176 pages | 90 illustrationsText in English and GermanHirmer Verlag GmbH, 20266.93 x 0.73 x 9.74 inches ISBN 9783777447322Movements

Unlock Your Heads at Last!: Dada as Political Art

By Alexandrine Maviel-Sonet and Anne-Katrin Rossberg Preface by Tsuyoshi Tane A unique showcase of 500+ objects from the MAK Collection in Vienna alongside Van Cleef & Arpels’ iconic jewelry, highlighting 120 years of artistry and design innovation. In GLANZSTÜCKE, unique and rarely seen objects from all sections of the MAK Collection engage in a dialogue with jewelry art spanning the 120-year history of Van Cleef & Arpels. The Parisian High Jewelry Maison and the MAK were brought together by a shared passion for outstanding design, exceptional craftsmanship, and visionary ideas. With the exhibition catalog GLANZSTÜCKE: Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry × Masterpieces from the MAK Collection, the readers embark on a journey through time and discovery across the entire spectrum of applied arts. The book reveals surprising parallels in forms, colors, and motifs across six chapters: Wanderlust, Architecture, Rhythmic Designs, On Stage, Metamorphoses, and Nature & Cosmos. With text contributions by Lilli Hollein, Catherine Renier, Alexandrine Maviel-Sonet, Rainald Franz, Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Michael Hölters, Kathrin Pokorny-Nagel, Anne-Katrin Rossberg, Lara Steinhäußer and Mio Wakita-Elis. Design by Bueronardin. This publication accompanies the exhibition GLANZSTÜCKE: Van Cleef & Arpels High Jewelry x Masterpieces from the MAK Collection at the MAK in Vienna, on view from 10 June until 27 September 2026. Hardcover368 pagesText in English and GermanHannibal Publishers, 20268.66 x 1.1 x 11.81 inchesISBN 9789493531031Applied Arts, Jewelry

Glanzstücke – Van Cleef & Arpels: MAK Collection

By Phaidon Editors ‘A staple in every every art aficionado’s library.’ —Galerie The Art Book is beloved throughout the world, known for introducing millions of readers to the joy of art appreciation. This award-winning, century-spanning survey features more than 600 artists from medieval times to modern day. Each is represented by a key work and an informative, explanatory text on the piece and its creator. In addition to hundreds of the world's best-loved artists, the selection includes many overlooked historical and cutting-edge contemporary figures, including: Berenice Abbott, Hilma af Klint, El Anatsui, Romare Bearden, Mark Bradford, Cao Fei, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, John Currin, Guerrilla Girls, Lee Krasner, Jacob Lawrence, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Takashi Murakami, Louise Nevelson, Clara Peeters, Jenny Saville, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more. Breaking with tradition, The Art Book; is organized by names instead of dates, creating a vibrant A-to-Z sequence of brilliant examples from all periods, schools, visions, and techniques. The result is an accessible, exciting, and unparalleled visual sourcebook that celebrates our rich, multifaceted culture in all its creative glory. Now available in a mini, travel-friendly format, The Art Book ensures art is always within arm’s reach. Hardcover592 pagesPhaidon, 20266.5 x 5.1 x 1.5 inchesISBN 9781837291489Movements

The Art Book: Mini Format

By Robert Musil Edited by Klaus Amann and Philip Payne Translated by Genese Grill “Politics is will and not truth. A very primitive formulation, but rich in consequences.” Robert Musil was keenly aware of literature’s vulnerability to what he called “the over-reach and encroachment of politics”, but he was also an acute observer of the ways in which literature and politics interact. Literature and Politics presents Musil’s writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness during the Age of Totalitarianism. In essays, addresses, aphorisms, and unpublished notes on current events, Musil charted the increasing dangers posed to artists and intellectuals by projects of ideological conscription, as well as the broader threats posed by nationalism and other extreme forms of collectivism. His political thinking was unfailingly supple and nuanced, but at its heart was a passionate belief in the rich and irreducible nature of individual creative work as the bulwark of a free, ethical, and pluralistic society. The main texts are translated by Genese Grill and Klaus Amann provides an invaluable Introduction to Musil’s political thought, while Philip Payne introduces Musil's "On Stupidity" (which he has also translated into English). Paperback564 pagesEris, 20254.92 x 1.17 x 7.72 inchesISBN 9781916809611 Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Literature and Politics

Von August Sander Zwei wenig bekannte Projekte des Photographen August Sander (1876–1964), die er für eine gemeinsame Veröffentlichung in einem Band vorgesehen hatte, werden hier erstmals ungekürzt vorgestellt: die sechs Radiovorträge, die er 1931 unter dem Titel Wesen und Werden der Photographie live im WDR hielt, und das Konvolut „Lichtbildwerkstatt August Sander, Köln-Lindenthal“, eine Dokumentation seiner Wohn- und Arbeitsräume in der Dürener Straße, erstellt zwischen 1930 und 1942/43, bevor das Haus 1944 durch Bombenangriffe zerstört wurde. Neben allgemeineren Anmerkungen zur Entwicklung des Mediums sind Sanders Vorträge ein Plädoyer für die sachlich-dokumentarische Photographie und eine deutliche Absage an malerische Tendenzen oder die standardisierte Massenproduktion von Bildern. Er geht auf verschiedene Techniken ein, diskutiert das Medium als Weltsprache und bezieht auch sein berühmtes Portrait-Projekt Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts mit ein. Der Band ist eine Hommage an August Sander zu seinem 150. Geburtstag in diesem Jahr – und eine Einladung zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Medium Photographie. „Inhaltsangabe“ gehört möglicherweise zu einer anderen Auflage dieses Titels. Hardcover 272 Seitan Text in German Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH, 20268 x 1.5 x 9.75 inches ISBN 9783829610711Photography, History

August Sander: Wesen und Werden der Photographie Rundfunkvorträge WDR 1931

Von Melanie LaiblIllustr. von Hemma Bergner Eine tierische Streitgeschichte: wilde Verfolgungsjagd mit süßem Ende Zwischen Hoppelhase Schnifis und Spitz Ludovic ist ein Wettrennen entbrannt: Rund um den Birnbaum geht es in rasender Geschwindigkeit, wieder und wieder und wieder ... bis es dem Baum zu bunt wird und er drastische Maßnahmen ergreift. Das kunterbunte Bilderbuch mit den witzigen Reimen von Melanie Laibl, illustriert von Hemma Bergner, macht einfach Spaß. Die rasante Geschichte von zwei Freunden, die sich nach einer wilden Verfolgungsjagd und dem unvermuteten Eingreifen der Botanik wieder vertragen, sorgt bei jedem Vorlesen für Gelächter! Birnbaum, Hund und Hase: ein ungewöhnliches Trio in einer witzigen Tiergeschichte Ein Bilderbuch ab 3 Jahren, an dem auch die Vortragenden Spaß haben Streiten und Vertragen: So süß schmeckt Versöhnung Reimgeschichte mit einprägsamen Versen für die Sprachförderung in der Kita Ein Kinderbuch über Freundschaft und köstlichen Birnenkuchen Tierisch lustiges Bilderbuch: Reime rund um den Birnbaum Wenn Hund und Hase sich eine wilde Verfolgungsjagd liefern, komplett mit gegenseitigen Hänseleien, hat Langeweile keine Chance! Das Rennen um den Birnbaum nimmt ein jähes Ende, die Freundschaft der beiden tierischen Protagonisten erhält neuen Aufschwung und das Publikum kommt aus dem Staunen kaum heraus.Melanie Laibl und Hemma Bergner haben ein Kinderbuch geschaffen, an dem die ganze Familie Freude hat. Ein famoser Spaß in einprägsamen Reimen mit Illustrationen, die immer wieder zum Betrachten einladen! Hardcover32 SeitenText in GermanDon Bosco Medien, 20268.5 x 8.5 x 0.39 InchesISBN 9783693370292Children's Literature, German Books

Hase, Hund, Birnen - UND? Bilderbuch

Von Kerstin Hau und Stella Dreis Oh nein, vor der Stadt liegt ein riesiges Tier! Es versperrt den Weg. Eieiei, tönt der Wompf. Oje, stöhnt die Timpe-Ma. Da muss etwas gemacht werden! Und dann machen sie etwas. Sie decken das Tier zu, bauen eine Brücke drüber und eine Straße drum herum. Problem erkannt, Problem gebannt! Nur das Mienchen schüttelt den Kopf, ihm gefällt das gar nicht. Aber wer hört schon auf Mienchen? Da nimmt es sich ein Herz und spricht das Tier einfach an … Kerstin Hau und Stella Dreis haben ein Bilderbuch geschaffen, das zeitlos und zugleich zeitgeistig ist. Mit Tempo, Humor und klaren Worten zeigen sie, wie wir Unbekanntem begegnen können. Die reduzierten Illustrationen er­möglichen Projektionen: Jede:r kann Mienchen oder Stadtbewohner:in sein. Eine Geschichte über das miteinander Reden, aufeinander Zugehen und von­einander Lernen. Alles ist unbekannt, bis du es kennenlernst. Für Lehrkräfte: Pädagogisches Begleitmaterial für die Grundschule über den Umgang mit Unbekanntem und Fokus auf dem Thema Gefühle (Download unter Lehrmaterialien). Hardcover40 SeitenText in GermanNordSüd Verlag AG, 202621,5 × 28 cmISBN 9783314107344Children's Literature, German Books

Obacht!

Von Jan Jekal Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades oder Beverly Hills – das sind die klingenden Namen des kalifornischen Idylls, in dem sie Zuflucht gefunden haben: Filmemacher und Schauspieler, Schriftsteller und Intellektuelle, die in den 1930er- und 1940er-Jahren vor den Nazis aus Europa fliehen mussten. Sie bilden eine Solidargemeinschaft der Exilierten: Bertolt Brecht, Helene Weigel und Hanns Eisler, Billy Wilder und Vicki Baum, Fritz Lang und William Wyler, Thomas und Heinrich Mann. Wer in Berlin, Wien oder Prag einen Namen hatte, folgte dem Ruf der boomenden Filmindustrie Hollywoods. Doch dieses romantische »Weimar am Pazifik« ist nicht die ganze Geschichte: Noch während sie im beginnenden Krieg ihren mal militärischen, mal moralischen Beitrag aufseiten der Allierten leisten, werden die Geflüchteten zu Verdächtigen. Eben noch als noble Nazi-Gegner gefeiert, wird jetzt ihr Müll vom FBI durchsucht – der »red scare« und der McCarthyismus machen aus Freigeistern und Linksliberalen feindliche »Kommunisten«. Das Land, das Zuflucht war, wandelt sich zum Ort der Repression und Verfolgung. Fesselnd und stimmungsvoll, anhand bisher unveröffentlichter Dokumente aus Archiven in Los Angeles zeichnet Jan Jekal nach, wie sich die Exilierten gegen das autoritäre Amerika wehrten – mit Aktivismus, Witz, Courage und mit Filmen, die zu Klassikern geworden sind –, aber auch, wie einige von ihnen an Amerika verzweifelten. Hardcover380 SeitenText in GermanMatthes & Seitz Verlag, 20268.7 x 5.6 x 1.5 inchesISBN 9783751821032Non-Fiction, Film History

Paranoia In Hollywood

Von Ruth Rehmann Herausgegeben von Werner Jung »Illusionen erzählt die konkreten Arbeitsverhältnisse im Nachkriegswirtschaftswunder der Fünfzigerjahre mit und schildert insbesondere weibliche Berufstätigkeit zu dieser Zeit. Damit steht der Roman inhaltlich in der Tradition der Neuen Sachlichkeit der Weimarer Republik [...].« —Nicole Seifert, 54books »Das ist ein tolles Stück Literatur, die Sprache ist ganz besonders, die Perspektive auch.« —Nina Wehner, Berliner Zeitung Im verglasten Großraumbüro im 13. Stock eines großen Konzerns beginnt Samstagmittag das Wochenende. Und mit ihm eröffnet sich ein Panorama an Abenteuern und Enttäuschungen, Träumen und Illusionen. In ihrem 1959 erstmals veröffentlichten Roman erzählt Ruth Rehmann (1922–2016) vom Arbeitsalltag und den Wochenendvergnügungen dreier Frauen und eines Mannes und gewährt Einblick in deren verwirrende, faszinierende oder beschämende Vergangenheit und Gegenwart – bis zur Rückkehr in den 13. Stock am Montagmorgen. 1958 las Ruth Rehmann das Kapitel »Das erste Kleid« auf der Tagung der Gruppe 47 in Großholzleute. Bei der Abstimmung über den Preis der Gruppe unterlag sie schließlich jedoch Günter Grass. Im selben Jahr, in dem Grass’ »Blechtrommel« oder Bölls »Billard um halb zehn« erschienen, lässt Rehmanns Zeit- und Gesellschaftsroman ganz neue Facetten der Wirtschaftswunderzeit entdecken und beeindruckt auch heute noch durch seine Modernität. Hardcover320 seitenText in German AvivA Verlag, 20225.12 x 1.26 x 8.54 inches ISBN 9783949302046Literature

Illusionen

Von Melanie LaiblIllustr. von Nini Alaska Es ist Weihnachtszeit, und alles funkelt und leuchtet! Auch im Haus mit der Nummer 24 sieht man Licht. Eines der Fenster funkelt ganz besonders. Doch keiner weiß, was sich hinter dem Funkelfenster verbirgt. Mit einem genialen Plan möchten Niko und Luzie das herausfinden. Ein Fest muss her, das den Zauber von Weihnachten und Keksduft ins Stiegenhaus bringt! Ein Fest für alle, die hier wohnen. Autorin Melanie Laibl erzählt hoffnungsvoll und augenzwinkernd von einem Fest für alle. Zusammen mit den hinreißenden und stimmungsvollen Illustrationen von Nini Alaska entführt sie kleine Leserinnen und Leser in eine zauberhafte Weihnachtswelt. Wer möchte nicht wissen, was sich hinter dem geheimnisvollen Funkelfenster verbirgt? Die beiden Kinder setzen alles daran, das Rätsel zu lösen und den Zauber von Weihnachten zu entdecken. Ein Buch, das nicht nur Kinderherzen höherschlagen lässt, sondern auch Erwachsene in die festliche Stimmung der Weihnachtszeit versetzt. Hardcover30 SeitenText in GermanG&G Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 20248.66 x 0.31 x 10.98 inchesISBN 9783707453065Children's Book

Funkelfenster

Von Robert WalserNachwort von Michail Schischkin „Ich teile mit, daß ich eines schönen Vormittags, ich weiß nicht mehr genau um wieviel Uhr, da mich die Lust, einen Spaziergang zu machen, ankam, den Hut auf den Kopf setzte, das Schreib- oder Geisterzimmer verließ, die Treppe hinunterlief, um auf die Straße zu eilen.“ 1917 erschien Robert Walsers klassische Erzählung „Der Spaziergang“, ein Lob des Müßiggangs: „Die Herrlichkeit eines kostenlosen Spaziergangs am heiterhellen Werktag wird hier geradezu aufreizend gepriesen.“ (Eduard Korrodi) Christian Thanhäusers kongeniale Holzschnitte waren bereits 2014 im Kunstmuseum Bern zu sehen, nun sind sie auch in der Insel-Bücherei zu besichtigen. Hardcover116 Seiten | 16 HolzschnittenText in GermanInsel Verlag GmbH 20184.8 x 0.47 x 7.36 inchesISBN 9783458194491Literature

Der Spaziergang

Von Rainer Maria RilkeHerausgegeben von Siegfried Unseld Unter den Gedichten Rainer Maria Rilkes sind »Lieder von der vollendeten taktilen Schönheit von Früchten; Strophen, die sich als Lied im Sinn der Griechen von Hand zu Hand wie eine Schale, eine Scherbe geben lassen« (Walter Benjamin).Siegfried Unseld hat die schönsten Liebesgedichte dieses Dichters zusammengestellt. Es sind Botschaften der Liebe, dem höchsten Auftrag des Daseins folgend: Liebe leben zu lernen, sich dem Liebeserlebnis ganz »mit allen seinen voneinander kaum unterscheidbaren Entzückungen« hinzugeben. Hardcover58 SeitenText in GermanInsel, Frankfurt 19944.8 x 0.47 x 7.24 inchesISBN 9783458191506Literature

Wie soll ich meine Seele halten

By Max Frisch Translated by Geoffery Skelton "Do you consider yourself a good friend? Are you a friend to yourself?" Between these two inquiries lie 23 questions on the subject of friendship. Max Frisch’s famous questionnaires originate from his Diary 1966–1971, and each of the ten questionnaires focuses on a specific theme: marriage, women, humor, money, friendship, fatherhood, homeland, property, and nothing less than the survival of the human race. The answers are left to the reader’s imagination—an irresistible reading experience. Hardcover81 pagesInsel-Bucherei, 20177.25 x 4.75 x 0.25ISBN 9783458194354Literature

Questionnaire

By Brothers GrimmIllustrated by Sandra Dieckmann "Dieckmann’s use of rich, saturated colors creates an enchanting atmosphere—deep forest greens, cool night blues, and warm golden yellows bring the scenes to life. . . . A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly modern fairy-tale anthology." —Kirkus Reviews "Seeming at once fresh and classic, this collection of 22 handsomely framed and illustrated Brothers Grimm tales offers a mix of popular and less-familiar choices." —Booklist Twenty classic stories get a gently modernized twist in Sandra Dieckmann’s beautifully illustrated collection of treasured and lesser-known fairy tales. From internationally acclaimed creator Sandra Dieckmann comes a captivating collection of Grimms’ fairy tales, accessibly written and illustrated with an eye to inclusivity. Including much-loved stories like “Rapunzel” and “Sleeping Beauty” as well as more obscure gems from the author’s childhood in northern Germany, this splendidly illustrated gift book of twenty tales is poised to charm readers of all ages. Enchanted forests, wild animals, powerful princesses, and brave heroes all reflect a lightly modern take in this Grimms’ collection to be cherished by all. Hardcover176 pagesCandlewick, 2025Age range: 4-8 years9.06 x 10.63 inchesISBN 9781536236491Children's Books, Fairy Tales

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Edited by Przemyslaw Strozek, Rudolf Fischer, Antonella B. Meloni, & David WittinghoferWith Contributions by Meghan Forbes A stylish, rigorous documentation of the cross-cultural exchange between America and Europe during the Roaring Twenties Parallel to the avant-garde movements in Europe of the 1920s, unprecedented economic prosperity developed in the United States. In Europe, "America" became a cultural concept that emblematized an urban lifestyle, efficient labor systems and low-threshold entertainment. Certain exports, such as jazz, were embraced, while others, such as Taylorism, met with heavy criticism. In turn, European art and its new movements, such as Dadaism, Futurism and Constructivism, attracted both reverence and disdain in the United States. The American public learned about these cultural experiments through magazines such as The Little Review. Through expository texts and reproductions of poems, artwork, posters, sheet music and magazines, Modern Times documents the transatlantic exchange that occurred between the European avant-garde and American popular culture during the storied Roaring Twenties. The volume identifies the means through which ideas and phenomena were disseminated abroad and traces their respective receptions. Paperback246 pages | 150 color & b/w illustrationsSpector Books, 20268.27 x 0.87 x 11.02 inchesISBN 9783959058865Mixed Media, International Arts

Modern Times: Transantlantic Encounters in the 1920s

By Kerstin Drechsel, Diana Kopka, Florence Thurmes, Sina Tonn Follows the role of angst in Edvard Munch’s unprecedented body of work and its enduring influence on contemporary art. Angst. Everyone knows it and fears it—regardless of cultural and social background—yet it is also essential to life, as a driving force and source of energy. Hardly any painter has captured this aspect of the human condition so powerfully as Edvard Munch, the artist whose unique body of work leaves no one unmoved. A pioneer of modernism, Munch was able to address the raw, wild, and immediate aspects of human existence. In his works, he places human feelings and a trenchant critique of civilization at the center. This comprehensive and opulent document of a universal emotion demonstrates the importance of the Norwegian master in all his facets. Paperback with flaps 336 pages | 170 illustrations Text in German and English Hirmer Publishers, 20267.5 x 10 inchesISBN 9783777446486 Monographs

Edvard Munch: Angst

Kurt Tucholsky Ausgewählt von Marie Bernhard. Illustriert von Katrin Stangl Es ist ein fremder Hauch auf mir? Was soll das heißen – es ist ein fremder Hauch auf mir? Auf mir ist kein fremder Hauch. Gib mal’n Kuß auf Lottchen … In dem heiter-maliziösen Tucholsky-Lesebuch beichtet Lottchen einen Geliebten, es werden Ratschläge an einen schlechten Redner erteilt oder final die Frage geklärt, wo die Löcher aus dem Käse herkommen. Was man alles eventuell noch mal gebrauchen kann in diesem Leben und wie es anfühlt, mit einer großen Frau liiert zu sein. Und ein Gratisrezept gegen die Grippe gibt es obendrein. Das alles garniert mit kongenialen Illustrationen von Katrin Stangl. Natürlich war ich da mit einem Mann. Na, soll ich vielleicht mit einer Krankenschwester ins Theater? Lieber Daddy, das war ganz harmlos, vollkommen harmlos … Fester Einband123 SeitenInsel Verlag GmbH, 202512 x 1.6 x 18.4 cmISBN 9783458195535Literature, Books in German

Gib mal'n Kuß auf Lottchen

By Ken Krimstein Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the fascinating Hannah Arendt, the most prominent philosopher of the twentieth century. "It's remarkable how lively Krimstein makes thought look in the book . . . cafe society scenes in Weimar Berlin in particular show how propulsive Krimstein's style is, how fluidly he conveys freewheeling conversations, how nimbly he switches gears." —The Chicago Reader "The astounding life of a 20th-century original as told by a skillful cartoonist frolicking in long form . . . A compelling performance with great pacing that makes abstruse political theory both intelligible and memorable." —Kirkus (Starred Review) One of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a hero of political thought, the largely unsung and often misunderstood Hannah Arendt is best known for her landmark 1951 book on openness in political life, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which, with its powerful and timely lessons for today, has become newly relevant. She led an extraordinary life. This was a woman who endured Nazi persecution firsthand, survived harrowing "escapes" from country to country in Europe, and befriended such luminaries as Walter Benjamin and Mary McCarthy, in a world inhabited by everyone from Marc Chagall and Marlene Dietrich to Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. A woman who finally had to give up her unique genius for philosophy, and her love of a very compromised man - the philosopher and Nazi-sympathizer Martin Heidegger - for what she called "love of the world." Compassionate and enlightening, playful and page-turning, New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt is a strikingly illustrated portrait of a complex, controversial, deeply flawed, and irrefutably courageous woman whose intelligence and "virulent truth telling" led her to breathtaking insights into the human condition, and whose experience continues to shine a light on how to live as an individual and a public citizen in troubled times. Hardcover240 pagesBloomsbury Publishing, 2018 6.83 x 0.97 x 9.06 inches ISBN 9781635571882Graphic Novel, Literature

The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth

Edited by Judith HarrisContributions by Tony Woolfson The definitive one-volume collection of Jung quotations. C. G. Jung (1875–1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology. He introduced the concepts of extraversion and introversion, and terms such as complex, archetype, individuation, and the collective unconscious. He stressed the primacy of finding meaning in our lives. The Quotable Jung is the single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled. It is the essential introduction for anyone new to Jung and the Jungian tradition. It will also inspire those familiar with Jung to view him in an entirely new way. The Quotable Jung presents hundreds of the most representative selections from the vast array of Jung’s books, essays, correspondence, lectures, seminars, and interviews, as well as the celebrated Red Book, in which Jung describes his own fearsome confrontation with the unconscious. Organized thematically, this collection covers such topics as the psyche, the symbolic life, dreams, the analytic process, good and evil, creativity, alchemical transformation, death and rebirth, the problem of the opposites, and more. The quotations are arranged so that the reader can follow the thread of Jung’s thought on these topics while gaining an invaluable perspective on his writings as a whole. Succinct and accessible, The Quotable Jung also features a preface by Judith Harris and a detailed chronology of Jung’s life and work. The single most comprehensive collection of Jung quotations ever assembled Features hundreds of quotes Covers such topics as the psyche, dreams, good and evil, death and rebirth, and more Includes a detailed chronology of Jung’s life and workServes as the ideal introduction to Jung and the Jungian tradition Paperback376 pagesPrinceton University Press 20254.4 x 1.1 x 7.3 inchesISBN 9780691270951 Analytical Psychology, Collection

The Quotable Jung

By Emma Jung Edited by Ann Conrad, Lammers Thomas, Fischer Medea Hoch Translated by Ann Conrad Lammers Alison Kappes A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung’s wife and collaborator Emma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, yet she kept most of her creative and personal life private. Dedicated to the Soul brings together previously unpublished materials from Jung’s private archive, introducing her voice into the literature of the early psychoanalytical movement and revealing a vibrant inner life and a glowing presence that until now was known only to her family and a handful of patients, students, and friends. This fully annotated collection features journal entries, dream accounts, drawings, paintings, and lectures. It sheds new light on Jung as an early collaborator in the creation of analytical psychology who may have originated the concept of the animus, one of C. G. Jung’s central constructs. It paints a riveting portrait of a dynamic woman who, determined to break free of the conventional world of her upbringing, fearlessly interrogated her social environment and developed her own systems of meaning. With introductory essays that chart Jung’s personal, intellectual, and psychological development, Dedicated to the Soul brings the creative work of this boldly imaginative and irreverent spirit to a wider audience and offers new perspectives on the role of women in the early history of analytical psychology. Hardcover432 pagesPrinceton University Press, 20257.8 x 1.3 x 10.3 inchesISBN 9780691253275 Theory, Psychology, History

Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung

By C. G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G. Jung began a collaboration with his student and secretary Aniela Jaffé and the legendary publisher Kurt Wolff on a book about his life. Memories, Dreams, Reflections would become a bestseller, yet it draws from less than half of Jaffé’s original interviews with Jung. Much of the material from these candid, wide-ranging conversations was left on the cutting-room floor. Jung’s Life and Work presents these interviews in their entirety for the first time. Marking the 150th anniversary of Jung’s birth, this new English translation captures the cadence and subtlety of the brilliant psychologist in his own words, giving voice to a thinker and teacher who is by turns witty and intellectually daring but also vulnerable and humbled by the world’s great mysteries. It restores numerous passages that were originally omitted or heavily edited and toned down for publication, “auntified” as Jung himself put it. Taken together, these talks reveal Jung actively discovering meaningful new connections in his life’s work. He shares his impressions of notable figures he encountered throughout his life—such as Sigmund Freud, William James, Albert Einstein, and H. G. Wells—and describes his striking visions, religious and paranormal experiences, and pioneering self-experimentation. Aided by Jaffé’s skillful questioning, Jung reflects on subjects ranging from Christianity and Buddhism and the fate of the West to the experiences that led to the formulation of his signature concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus, and the shadow as well as on karma, the afterlife, and much more. With an introduction and extensive annotations by acclaimed Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani that provide invaluable historical perspective, Jung’s Life and Work includes previously unpublished extracts from Jung’s letters and a completely reorganized text. Hardcover456 pagesPrinceton University Press, 20266.22 x 1.34 x 9.21 inchesISBN 9780691193229Psychology, Theory

Jung's Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTranslated by John Kent A fresh translation of the poetry of German Romantic and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. “Germany’s greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth” — George Eliot Here, in this selection of his poetry, is representation of Goethe’s life from childhood to old age: full of travel, romantic fixations, curiosity, nostalgia, deep thought, and above all, writing. Goethe is undoubtedly Germany’s greatest poet, as Shakespeare is England’s. This fresh translation offers the reader an introduction to Goethe’s genius. And what a genius! Novelist, dramatist, philosopher and above all poet; a scientist with deep interests in Nature, in particular the human body, forestry, geology, botany and light; a courtier and in later life considered a sage, he was also a very frequent letter writer, no mean artist, and a man who was able throughout his life to renew and rejuvenate himself creatively, working out many of his life’s problems through his writings. For English speakers he is probably best known as the author of Faust, a vast dramatic work mainly in verse which occupied him on and off throughout his long life, as well as The Sorrows of Young Werther, a novel of youthful despair which became the sacred text of the Romantic movement. This volume brings together his very personal lyric poetry, hewing as close to the original form, content, and rhyme schemes as possible in English. Paperback256 pagesPushkin Press Classics, 20265.1 x 7.8 inchesISBN 9781805333401Poetry, German Authors

The Wanderer's Song: Essential Poems

By Christopher Long Christopher Long’s latest volume of essays on the prestigious 19th-century architect, essayist and progenitor of modernism. Architectural historian and leading voice on Adolf Loos, Christopher Long returns with another commentary on the Austrian pioneer of modern architecture. Adolf Loos (1870–1933), an opponent of ornamentation on buildings, designed buildings in Vienna that contrasted with the popular Art Nouveau and Secession styles. In this anthology of eight essays, Long takes on the meanings of Loos’ writings and design work, the cultural world in which he was embedded, and how he was regarded by the critics and public. Long exposes and explodes old myths about Loos, fostering in the process a new, brilliant and compelling view of one of modern architecture’s key protagonists. Softcover 144 pagesKANT, 2024 6.5 x 9 inches ISBN 9788074373954Architecture and Design

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