Arcade Publishing, 2015. — 592 p. — ASIN B07B65W4TT It is the summer of 1929, and in a small German town, a storm is brewing. Tredup, a shabby reporter working for the Pomeranian Chronicle, leads a precarious existence...Until he takes some photographs that offer him a chance to make a fortune. While Tredup contemplates his next move, the town is buzzing. Farmers are plotting...
Polity Press, 2015. — 300 p. — ISBN: 0745681565 (ISBN13: 9780745681566) "I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of "inward emigration." Under conditions of close confinement, in constant...
USA, NY: Brooklyn, Melville House, 2009. — 583 p. — ISBN: 1933633638. This never-before-translated masterpiece—by a heroic best-selling writer who saw his life crumble when he wouldn’t join the Nazi Party—is based on a true story.It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a...
Kolthoff Press, 2007. — 340 p. — ISBN: 1406741736 (ISBN13: 9781406741735) Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Penguin Classics, 2014. — 586 p. — ISBN: 9780141196534 A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from the author of bestselling Alone in Berlin. Intransigent, deeply conservative coachman Gustav Hackendahl rules his family with an iron rod, but in so doing loses his grip on the children he loves. Meanwhile, the First...
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Melville House Publishing, 2009. — 384 p. — eISBN 978-1-61219-064-8.
Translation by Susan Bennett, 1996.
Since its first publication in 1933, this novel has become a world classic. It provides a vivid, poignant picture of life in Germany just before Hitler's takeover and focuses on a young married couple struggling to survive in the country's nightmarish...
Scribe Publications, 2016. — 271 p. — ISBN: 1925321193 (ISBN13: 9781925321197) Allen Blunden (Translator) Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler’s war. Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet Dr Doll, a loner and ‘moderate pessimist’, lives in...
Arcade Publishing, 2014. — 487 p. — ASIN B07B5YRKCG For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked...
Penguin Classics, 2014. — 320 p. — ISBN13: 9780141392851 Michael Hofmann (Translator), Michael Hoffman (Editor), Jenny Williams (Foreword) Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in...
NY, Brooklyn: Melville House, 2009. — 350 p. — eISBN: 978-1-61219-065-5.
This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale—often fierce, often poignant, often extremely funny—of a small businessman losing control as he fights...
USA, NY, Brooklyn, Melville house, 2010. — 803 p. — eISBN: 978-1-935554-89-9.
Wolf Among Wolves is a sprawling saga of the collapse of a culture - its economy and government - and the common man's struggle to survive it all. Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany's catastrophic loss of World War I, the story follows a young gambler who loses all in Berlin, then flees the...
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