'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment...

Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

Doctor Faustus

'All his powers were in decline; the only thing growing stronger in him was the conviction that a...

This groundbreaking new translation of The Interpretation of Dreams is the first to be based on t...

»Nach wie vor bin ich der Meinung, daß sich die Literatur der deutschen landesflüchtigen Schrifts...

Thomas Mann's later short stories published between 1925 and 1953 explore his abiding interest in...

A moving and motivating collection of portraits of extinct species, revealing the profound implic...

German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any othe...

Kafka and Short Modernist Prose. Kafka und die kleine Prosa der Moderne

Kafka

Historical research has dispelled a number of myths surrounding World War I: whereas the outbreak...

'impossible here, absurd, depraved, ludicrous and yet sacred, still honourable, even here: 'I lov...