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A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy off ...Show more
A Small Circus by Hans Fallada
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A "Small Circus" is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of "Alone in Berlin"). It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian ...Show more
Alone In Berlin by Hans Fallada
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France, they are shocked out of their quiet existence and begin a silent campaign of defiance. A deadly game of cat-and-mouse develops between ...Show more
Iron Gustav - A Berlin Family Chronicle by Hans Fallada
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
This is a powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is sh ...Show more
Lilly and Her Slave by Hans Fallada
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. In September 1925 Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police. Not yet a bestselling author, Fallada had repeatedly embezzled funds to finance his alcohol and morphine addictions. Desperate to escape his demons, he sought a pr ...Show more
Little Man, What Now? by Hans Fallada
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection
Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells the simple story of a young couple trying to eke out a decent life amidst an economic crisis that's transforming their country into a place of anger and despair.
Nightmare in Berlin by Hans Fallada
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection | Reading Level: General Adult
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 constant fear. By night, he i ...Show more
Once a Jailbird by Hans Fallada
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. Gra ...Show more
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism by Hans Fallada
5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me ...Show more
Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction by Hans Fallada
26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These are 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 marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap f ...Show more
The Cold Gaze: Germany in The 1920s by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen (Editor); Christopher Isherwood (Text by); Irmgard Keun (Text by); Angela Lampe (Text by); Anthony Lane (Text by); Herbert Molderings (Text by); Werner Möller (Text by); Patrick Rössler (Text by); Catherine Wermester (Text by); Kirsten Degel (Editor); Poul Erik Tøjner (Foreword by); Vicki Baum (Text by); Bertolt Brecht (Text by); Alfred Döblin (Text by); Hans Fallada (Text by); Marieluise Fleisser (Text by)
72.95 AUD
Category: Art
A sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists--Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch--and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of t ...Show more
The Drinker by Hans Fallada
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Fallada Collection
Written by Hans Fallada in a notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale -- often fierce, often poignant, often even extremely funny -- of a small businessman losing control as he fights valiantly to blot out an increasingly oppressive societ ...Show more