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A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
Category: Fiction
A Place in the Country is a window into the brilliant mind of W. G. Sebald. When W. G. Sebald travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during the years when he was settled in England. In A Pla ...Show more
A Place in the Country by W. G. Sebald
Category: Biography
From the author of the critically-acclaimed "Austerlitz" and "Across the Land and Water comes". "A Place in the Country", the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When W. G. Sebald, the prize-winning author of "Austerlitz", travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed ...Show more
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald
Category: Poetry
"Across the Land and the Water" brings together poems published during W.G. Sebald's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s ...Show more
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald
Category: Poetry
"Across the Land and the Water" brings together poems published during W.G. Sebald's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s ...Show more
After Nature by W. G. Sebald
Category: Poetry
After Nature, W. G. Sebald s first literary work, now translated into English by Michael Hamburger, explores the lives of three men connected by their restless questioning of humankind s place in the natural world. From the efforts of each, an order arises, in places beautiful and comforting, though mor ...Show more
After Nature by W.G. Sebald
Category: Classic Fiction
Three men walk the pages of W. G. Sebald's first literary work - the painter Mathaeus Grunewald, the botanist Georg Wilhelm Steller and W. G. Sebald himself. Written as a long poem in three parts, After Nature delves into each of these lives in turn, teasing out the haunting uncertainties of the past an ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Category: Fiction
The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris. The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a child ...Show more
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. "Austerlitz" is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a "Kindertransport" in the summer of 1939 ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Category: Fiction
A special tenth-anniversary edition of W.G. Sebald's modern classic, "Austerlitz", with a new introduction by James Wood. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of h ...Show more