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With a mixture of compassion and despair, this collection of ten short stories by the distinguished author of 'Cry, the Beloved Country' speaks eloquently yet incisively of the injustices of the author's native land, South Africa.
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Tales From A Troubled Land.......2001-03-01
It was excellect, though very dark in it's discription of the injustice of the apartide. And continuing motifs of oppresion and curruption and hoplessness made it very deppresing. Not as good as his other book, Cry the Beloved Country.
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Tales From a Troubled Land
Alan Paton
Manufacturer: CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS LTD
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ASIN: B000TXDLO0 |
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Tales From a Troubled Land
Alan Paton
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ASIN: B000NX0IYC |
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Tales From a Troubled Land
Alan Paton
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Tales From a Troubled Land-
Alan Paton
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ASIN: B000O04O7G |
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Tales From A Troubled Land-
Alan Paton-
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Tales From a Troubled Land
Alan Paton
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Book Description
Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy, and effervescent originality, nobody can touch this new Ffordian tour de force.
-Lost in a Good Book appeared on The New York Times extended bestseller list and was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller
-The Eyre Affair was a New York Times bestseller and a Book Sense 76 Pick
-Penguin will publish Lost in a Good Book simultaneously
-The fourth book in the series is forthcoming from Viking
Customer Reviews:
A good read, But.......2007-04-18
Hmm, it's a good book but I think that the series was a lot more fun when it was in the real world and not set entirely in the Book world.
I never really bought into the central plot device and I really didn't feel that the whole UltraWord® thing was fleshed out enough to make it that important not to mention that several of the drawbacks of it seem kind of tacked on.
All in all I think that this is definitely worth reading but not nearly as good as the first two Thursday Next novels and I definitely liked the Nursery Crime books better. They seem to take themselves less seriously and are just more fun.
A funny romp `behind the scenes' of literature........2007-04-07
I thoroughly enjoyed Jasper Fforde's "The Well of Lost Plots", the third in his Thursday Next series. In this fantasy/mystery "outlanders", i.e. real people, may enter books and interact with the characters. Thursday does so hoping for a rest but soon becomes tangled in a plot that will shake up all of literature. There is corruption, intrigue and murder!
At the same time, she must deal with Aornis Hades, her enemy from earlier books who is trying to make her forget her husband. This insidious being has the ability to make a person lose memories.
There are plenty of writing puns and jokes sprinkled through the story as well as literary references. Miss Havisham, the Cheshire Cat and Humpty Dumpty play a role. We also meet `generics', background characters that writers create but do not `flesh out'. Thursday helps a couple of them become more interesting characters.
This story and the fascinating world Fforde has created is quite inventive. I don't know yet how this compares to the other volumes in the series but I look forward to reading those and letting you know.
I am amazed.......2007-03-22
My first book by Jasper Fforde was The Eyre Affair and I didn't really like it. I just couldn't connect with its main character Thursday Next. She wasn't real to me. And only the book's version of England and the other characters in the book kept me somewhat interested.
Not expecting that to change I read The Well of Lost Plots and my indifference to Fforde's work turned into amusement, amazement and then devotion. Thursday Next is still not real to me but she's become the familiar narrator of a wonderful world. Jasper Fforde has tons of ideas and they range from interesting to endearing to hilarious to amazing and so on and so forth.
Thursday Next, who already traveled into books in The Eyre Affair, has found refuge in `the book world' where characters out of fiction live their lives inside and outside their books. One of the many amazing facts we learn is that books are not created by authors but in fact are just transmitted to their pens out of the book world. We also learn that the first operating system book world was called OralTrad, which was then upgraded by the rhyming OralTradPlus (for easier recall), followed by a split into CaveDaubPro and the picto-phonetic storytelling systems which started with ClayTablet V2.1 and eventually ended in the current version of book V8.3. We also learn why we are still waiting for Godot and what happens when books get scrapped.
If you haven't read any of the Thursday Next novels pick this one to start with. If you have read one and weren't enthused try this one and change your mind the way I did. I've ordered the second of the series and am looking forward to the fourth and then the Next one. Pun intended.
Has Thursday Next jumped the shark? .......2007-03-16
Is it too early to suggest that Jasper has jumped the shark? Maybe, but I'm less indulgent about whether Thursday Next has.
Was it sophisticated intentional irony to set a book in a world of chaotic, unfinished, badly written drafts that itself feels chaotic, unfinished and badly written? I carped at Fforde in `Lost in a Good Book' that he'd be better off dropping his pretensions of plot (particularly an `overplot' for the series) and running with enjoyable stand alone surreal episodes. Here he barely bothers: Thursday can't remember Landon but then - after a mere page of unintegrated dream flapdoodle - she can. How nice. Meanwhile she's still done nothing to attempt to restore this supposed core love of her life. OK, lets dismiss the utterly unsatisfying overplot, what about the one for this novel? UltraWord(tm). Oh, I get it - it's a bit like Microsoft. Ho ho, smirk. This joke (I think it'd be stretching things to call it satire) works for about a paragraph - yet he milks this baby dry. Pageturner 1.3. Bookmark version 2.6 (or whatever), Jasper, we get it already.
OK, so the series plot has stalled, and the central one of this particular book is weak. `Lost plots' indeed. Still, plot's never been his strong point - let's get onto some of his traditional strengths: amusing Douglas Adams style leaps of imagination, and charming characters. Well, for the former, yeah, OK, there are some cool ideas here and there (although I'm struggling a bit to recall them, um, maybe the generics. And I did like the way this book connected with `The Big Over Easy'. The mispeling vyrus was mildly amusing the first time - ah, hey, it's misspelt - Oh, Jaaaaasper) - and the whole notion of being able to wander into any book at any time has fantastic potential. But a lot of other writers do this better. For a start, Fforde's pool of books is tiny - it's like he did a couple of undergrad literature courses (Austen, Dickens, Bronte, Shakespeare) - even, perhaps just one on classic English literature - and there's not a lot more going on. We're either supposed to feel impressed that he's dropped some names we might have heard of, and/or smug that we get the reference. Hey, I got the Biggles cameo. I didn't feel that smug. More importantly, he name drops classic characters or genres or settings but that's about it. There's not even an attempt to recreate and improvise with them in novel ways. Ms Havisham is probably the one he tries hardest with, but there's not even a whiff of Dickens in more than name. Even if he had've dropped the Havisham name and tried just creating her as a character, there's very little going on of interest between her and Thursday: somehow they're supposed to have this great professional respect between mentor and acolyte, but this is assumed rather than built. So we don't get a rounded new character to enjoy, nor do we get an avatar of an old one. What we get is a lame reference - and it's not enough.
It would be really cool if we suddenly found ourself in a range of novels with a real awareness (and love of) their conventions. An Asimov novel, say, where Thursday would suddenly find herself stacked and doting on some arrogant lead male - or would deliciously subvert this. Or a few pages of Steven King desperation and suspense. Or dropping in some classic characters who act and talk like they did originally - so we're aware why they ever gained their popularity. In pops Sherlock Holmes, with his quirks and methods. Here's Bertie Wooster, and you know what, he's hilarious - no, he's not just called Bertie Wooster, he says the sort of things Bertie would say, with the same exquisite turn of phrase. Alternatively we could find out it's an act, and once he steps off set he's dry and maliciously urbane. It's not, and I think you might have got my point by now, merely Fforde pulling a name of a book and dropping it into this one. It's not enough.
Charm? It feels a bit like Groundhog Day (not overall - this was, in contrast, generally a clever, charming film. Stick with me, I mean it feels like a bit in the film. You'll get it. Sorry, am I going on a bit long in these parentheses?). You know, where Bill Murray has had some lovely romantic moments with Andy McDowell one night, but in trying to recreate them on the next and the one after that he loses the magic, "OK, OK, c'mon, I pat the dog, you laugh, we slip on the snow into each others arms, you're happy, blah blah, can we get on with it." Thursday's friends and family sometimes used to do and say some charming things, here they more sort of hint at them. Most of the dialogue is transactional, "Hey, look out, it's going to get you." Instead of building emotional ties, Jasper goes for the cheap soap opera technique, "Who will die tonight?" Nobody feels much for these characters, but surely if we kill one of them we'll get some sort of response?! Well, Jasper kills a few (again the irritating conventional clanger of suddenly killing off several characters in a week that have supposedly survived lifetimes of danger and intrigue, while the rookie inexplicably lives on to solve the crime), but we have to manufacture the emotion.
Finally, somewhere along the line I stopped liking Thursday. I really was quite fond of her in `The Eyre Affair', but now I'd really rather hang out with someone else. She's still smart, I suppose, but she's not a particularly sympathetic character. "Plock, plock", says Jasper, "I gave her a pregnant dodo, for goodness sake - how much more charm can you want!?" Sorry, it's trimming, it's not enough.
Third in a line of great reads!!.......2007-03-07
Fforde does it again. Thursday Next, still missing her husband and very pregnant, decides to take over for a character in a book. Good idea while she's pregnant. She is still active with the Jurisfiction detectives in Bookworld. But because she has taken over for a character she has to watch for her role everytime it comes up, or she could change the book forever. Aornis, the mind erasing menace, is trying her best to make Thursday forget her husband, but to no avail. I will probably cry when I am done with this series!
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- The Thrawn Trilogy's exciting conclusion
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SW: Last Command (AU Star Wars)
Timothy Zahn
Manufacturer: RH Audio Price-less
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ASIN: 0739316648
Release Date: 2004-10-12 |
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The Thrawn Trilogy's exciting conclusion.......2005-09-26
The Last Command (1993.) A Star Wars novel by Timothy Zahn. Book three in a three-part series.
INTRODUCTION:
The Star Wars film series is, without question, the greatest science fiction series of all time. George Lucas captured the minds of people young and old across the world. But as anyone knows, there are only a limited number of films, and for many people, this just wasn't enough. And thus, the Star Wars Expanded Universe was born. The Expanded Universe consisted of comic books, video games, novels, and other media. Many of the stories focused on the characters in the films, many focused on unknown characters from the same universe. Among the authors who tried their hands at creating Star Wars novels was Timothy Zahn. He was a fairly notable science fiction author, and in 1991, he released the first truly-successful Expanded Universe novel - the classic Heir To The Empire. It was book one in a three-part series, followed by the sequels Dark Force Rising and The Last Command. Read on for my review of the third book in Zahn's trilogy, and see if it lives up to the hype!
STORYLINE:
The Thrawn trilogy begins five years after Return of the Jedi, meaning this trilogy takes place after The Courtship Of Princess Leia, but before the Jedi Academy Trilogy. Essentially, Han and Leia are now married, and Leia is pregnant with twins. Luke has received visions from Obi-Wan and Yoda that inspire him to want to train new Jedi Knights. Unfortunately, the Empire, while in a weakened state, is still a threat. Grand Admiral Thrawn has taken charge of the remnants of the Empire, and has joined forces with the clone of a Jedi Master believed to be long dead. The New Republic's military must do everything in its power to deal with Thrawn's threat, because if they don't, they could lose everything they have fought so hard for....
OPINIONS:
Star Wars novels, much like Star Wars video games, are hit and miss in their execution. Being the first wildly-successful Star Wars novels, I had my doubts that authors would have gotten it all together yet (after all, pre-1991 stores like Splinter Of The Mind's Eye and The Lando Calrissian Adventures were godawful.) Boy, was I wrong. There's a reason the Thrawn Trilogy is so popular. Zahn excellently captures the personalities of the characters we know and love, while adding in plenty of new ones, and doing a good job with them as well. If you're a Star Wars fan, this is a must-read. If you've never read a Star Wars novel before, this series would probably be a good place to start.
EDITION NOTES:
This remains one of the most widely loved and popular Star Wars novels. With its popularity remaining constant as the years pass by, it's likely to remain on store shelves for years to come. You shouldn't have to look hard - pretty much every bookstore has this one.
OVERALL:
Timothy Zahn was the first Star Wars author to create novels that were this excellent, and it's not hard to see why. If you're at all a fan of Star Wars, even if you've never read any of the novels before, you should greatly consider reading the Thrawn Trilogy. I really doubt any fan of the franchise will be disappointed with it.
Book Description
The companion volume to Martin Yan's new PBS series of the same name, this cookbook is the ideal introduction to Asian cooking. Wok-full of great tips and techniques, plus sources for easily locating unusual ingredients, here are more than 150 truly easy recipes that taste great and cook up fast -- all in under 30 minutes! Classic potstickers with spicy dipping sauce can be made ahead and frozen for impromptu guests-to-impress dinners. Korean-Style Lamb Chops pair up perfectly with crisp-and-tender Flash-Fried Asparagus and Long Beans. For those who like it hot, Three-Alarm Firecracker Shrimp packs a spicy punch with a menage a trois of chiles until Coconut Custard creaminess cools things down. Basics include the recipe for mastering steamed rice, a glossary of terms (know your miso from your mirin), and striking photographs throughout illustrating the food, essential equipment, and helpful techniques. No one is as well-known or well-loved for bringing Asian food into our home kitchens. With foolproof recipes conjured up fast, Martin Yan works his magic once again!
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Great chinese food -- really is quick and easy!.......2007-03-31
I'm a second generation Chinese American, and although my mother taught me some of her Chinese cooking, I've had a hard time mastering her approximation techniques ("a little bit of everything marinade"). I really prefer to follow a recipe, and with Chinese stir fry, it's often the sauce that makes such a difference. This cookbook really is quick and easy. Yan does a great job of introducing the basics in the beginning - ingredients (e.g. bottled sauces, ginger, garlic, rice), cooking tools (e.g. sharp knife, wok), techniques (e.g. chopping pieces evenly, how to stir fry, prepare all the ingredients before doing the actual cooking) - that lays the groundwork for the recipes to follow. He takes shortcuts appropriately, like using some common bottled sauces (oyster sauce, hoisin sauce), which I can find at American grocery stores. I've seen other Chinese cookbooks, and this one really is what it claims to be. The recipes don't have long lists of ingredients nor are the techniques difficult. In fact most of the time is spent preparing the sauces and chopping the meat, vegetables, or garnish. After that, cooking is a breeze. I also appreciate that the recipes include some standard faire as well as variations on ingredients normally used in Chinese cooking. So far I've tried Great Wall Hoisin Pizza, Tangy Pepper Chicken, Stir Fry Bok Choy, Stir Fry Asparagus and Quick Jook. All were delicious and simple to make! The layout is clean. There are an adequate number of photos, which definitely whet the appetite. It's paperback with a binding that allows the book to lay flat (with the help of some weights) or better yet, prop nicely in my cookbook stand. Definitely recommended for a beginner cook, someone looking to learn to make Chinese food, or someone like me, trying to carry on the legacy!
Comfort Food Cookbook!.......2007-02-02
I am Chinese, and this is my go-to cookbook for comfort foods!! I believe cooks at even the most elementary level will be able to follow the recipe and produce the right results. Most highly recommended!!
P.S. I LOVE the chicken lettuce wraps and Quick Char Siu!
Yan can cook and so can I!!.......2007-01-01
What a great book! Beautifully put together with stain-proof pages;)
The ingredients are easy to find, steps are easy to follow, food comes out like the picture! Most of the ingredients should already be in your cabinets if you cook lots of Asian meals (I live in Japan).
A great cook book! I tried the Honey-Garlic Green Tea Shrimp tonight...YUUUMMY! I agree with most reviews...a must have cookbook.
Martin Yan Quick and Easy.......2006-08-31
Martin's cookbook cuts to the heart of food preparation while making the process quick, easy and concise. I found the his cookbook also works in complete correlation to his cooking show. Whether you are new or experienced in the kitchen his books are a informational culinary delight. Stephanie Lui Jan and Sheri Giblin also deserve a kudos for the photographic expertise.
Martin Yan Quick and Easy.......2006-08-10
I never got the book, and when I went to select another one, the book was not available.
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- I liked it
- This was a great eye-opener for me
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- Jump Start Your Enjoyment of Wine
- Extemely informative book.
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The Instant Wine Connoisseur: A Practical Guide to Tasting, Buying and Cooking With Wine
Mervyn L. Hecht
Manufacturer: Bookworld Press
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Binding: Paperback
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I liked it.......2001-12-27
If nothing else, now I know that rose is made from red grapes, but they take the skins out. If that seems too basic for you, then buy a more complicated book. But if you still unscrew the cap as often as you pop the cork, then there might be something in here for you.
This was a great eye-opener for me.......2000-04-21
I loved this book. It only took 3-4 hours to read, but I felt that I learned all I needed to know about wine to really begin learning from tasting. After reading this small book I feel that I understand what to look for in a glass of wine, and my appreciation of both food and wine is enhanced. I tried one of the recipes and my husband loved it! Good job!
Look..Smell.. Taste.. Read.........1999-12-31
Great body and flavor. Smooth and unique, easy to digest. The reader can taste and smell the grapes colorful discriptions. A relaxing page turner. One sip is not enough. Bravo ! Mr. Hecht
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Jump Start Your Enjoyment of Wine.......1999-12-14
In less that than the time it took me to fly from Los Angeles to Houston, I doubled, if not tripled, my enjoyment of a glass of wine.
Benjamin Bloom, one of America's great educational psychologist explained long ago that one enjoys most what one knows. Mr. Hecht's slim, readable and entertaining overview delivers just enough knowledge to dramatically increase the pleasure of a glass of wine.
This little volume is filled with anecdotes and insights into the micro-environments that are best for various grapes, how the grapes are processed into wine, different types of wines, foods that complement those wines and more. Mr. Hecht, a retired attorney, delivers on his promise to provide an enjoyable reading experience that, in turn, provides many enjoyable wine-tasting experiences.
I can say that I enjoyed both the plane trip and the Merlot savored upon arrival in Houston.
Extemely informative book........1999-02-17
I learned more from this little book than from some big, tediuous books I've read about wine. This may be the best bargain in wine books anywhere.
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The Handmade Cigar: Collector's Guide & Journal
Tom Connor , and
Jim Downey
Manufacturer: Collins Publishers
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ASIN: 0006491693 |
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Good book.......1999-07-18
I have one question however - What is the significance of the "Key" symbol to Cubans. How did it originally link with the Cohiba cigars? J Lorenzo johnmenc@mindspring.com
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Pattern Review.......2007-01-14
This book has more beautiful patterns all in one book. Usually when you buy a book, it may have one or two patterns that spark interest, but I have never seen this quantity of unique patterns. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to create because these are truly creations.
Great Afghan Book.......2007-01-11
This book has a wide variety of patterns that are easy to follow and easy to make.
Delicious Array of Crochet Patterns.......2006-11-10
This crochet pattern book includes a wonderful variety of great patterns. Just purusing this book makes you want to crochet up every pattern inside...
Just what I was looking for !!!.......2006-07-17
This is one of the books, that I've been looking for, everywhere, and when I found it at amazon, I didn't waste any time, in buying it.
The afghan patterns are all great, and worded so that we can understand them.
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Love the "Seasons" series!.......2006-03-13
This is the fourth "Afghans for All Seasons" book Leisure Arts has put out, and it is my favorite. I've made 4 blankets from it for gifts, and there are still others I want to do! The directions are easy to follow, using the usual abbreviations in all Leisure Arts books.
I love the wide variety in all the "seasons" books compared to other Leisure Arts books. From my sister in Houston to my brother in Detroit, I can find a pattern suitable for any climate, age, gender, etc. I must confess I chose different colors for each blanket than the book has (to match decor) but that was easy to do.
I also love the wide variety of sizes, complexity, and speed. I was able to make a large afghan for my tall brother very quickly because the pattern used two threads together. Another smaller baby pattern was perfect for my friend's new nursery. One pattern that they showed in a solid color was easy to convert to two colors. Still another I made for my mother was an easy, repetitive pattern, so I was able to take the blanket anywhere to work on without bringing along the book (much easier to just sit and chat without stopping to check the book directions!)
If you want to get just one book with a wide diversity of GOOD patterns, this or another of the "seasons" series is what I recommend.
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One of the nicest afghan collections yet!.......2006-09-13
Wow - there are 52 patterns here, in all styles and skill levels. What's especially nice is that this large handcover lies flat when open to a page, so I can put my pattern grid over the page and it stays open -- this makes it much easier to follow the patterns. I started with the Remnants afghan (to use up left-overs) and it came out beautifully. What a feast this book is! Be sure you use natural yarns -- it's so warm and cuddly next to the skin.
A great collection of patterns for anyone who loves to crochet!
Just What I have been looking for!!.......2006-06-24
I have been looking for another afghan book, & when I received this, & looked through it, it is great, beautiful afghans to crochet, just what I want!!
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Manufacturer: Autores Editores
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Bertolt Brecht's Berlin: A Scrapbook of the Twenties
Wolf Von Eckardt , and
Sander L. Gilman
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Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s, A
ASIN: 0803296126 |
Book Description
In 1936, at the age of eighteen, Wolf Von Eckardt and his mother and sister fled Berlin and came to New York. With Sander L. Gilman, he as brought into focus, through words and pictures, an uneasy era that divided two great catastrophes.
Customer Reviews:
After the wall fell.......2003-11-29
It is a scrapbook. Berlin dreams included many things, art, architecture, theater, sport. In the 1950's the city's dividedness became an occasion for more riches of artistic expression.
Brecht died in 1956. His daughter took over his company--the Ensemble-- and the right to produce his plays. The Berlin of the 1920's became frozen in time. After reunification the question arose as to whether the Berlin Ensemble should be preserved.
Friedrich Ebert was the first President of the Weimar Republic. German inflation, 1919-1923, was more demoralizing than the defeat of armies. Berlin is surrounded by beautiful lakes and woods but most of the inhabitants stayed within the city's confines which produced a multitude of employment opportunities and leisure pursuits. There was also the issue of a lack of low cost housing which some of the architects and planners sought to overcome.
Berlin night life defied description. There was political cabaret. There were night clubs one does not talk about. Criminal gangs were camouflaged as social clubs. Franz Werfel, Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, and Stefan George were active. Kathe Kollwitz and Georg Grosz were inevitably involved in showing the ugliness of life in the city. Other artists included Otto Dix, Ernst Barlach, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Otto Muller, Lyonel Feininger, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Bauhaus group influenced the avant garde.
The first public psychoanalytic institute was established in Berlin in 1921. The Berlin theater attracted the best talent. German film makers used Espressionism. Another genre of film was the mountain film. The music scene included Wilhelm Furtwangler, Arnold Schonberg, Paul Hindemith, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Arthur Schnabel, and Kurt Weill. The Wandervogel movement was apolitical. Notes and index are provided.
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- The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
- The Baby Trail: A Novel
- The Book of Hard Things: A Novel
- The Brutal Language of Love: Stories by
- The Clarinet Polka: A Novel
- The Closet Devil
- The Day Laid on the Altar
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Master and Man
- The Death of Picasso: New and Selected Writing
- The Debauched Hospodar: The Eleven Thousand Virgins
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