Favorite German literature in English translation
Explore the best German literature in English translation with our curated list of favorite books. Discover timeless classics and modern masterpieces by Goethe, Kafka, Hesse, and more!
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The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author’s last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative …

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The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • A monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, The Magic Mountain is an enduring classic. With this …
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The Radetzky March
by Joseph Roth
The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World …
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year …

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Cat and Mouse
by Günter Grass
The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's "mouse"-his …
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The Clown
by Heinrich Böll
Through the eyes of a despairing artist, Hans Schneir, who recreates in his pantomimes incidents in people's lives with honesty and compassion, Boll draws a …
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Death in Venice
by Thomas Mann
A "brilliant . . . perfectly nuanced translation" (The Boston Globe) of Thomas Mann's greatest short works A Penguin Classic Featuring his world-famous masterpiece, "Death …
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