A.C. Buehler Library: WL 209 World Literature in English: Course Texts

Summers - Fall 2024

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Short Stories

Selected Folk Tales (Grimm)

Children are Civilians Too by Boll, Heinrich.
Call Number: 833.914 B691CH
ISBN: 0436054469
Five Great German Short Stories by Stanley Appelbaum (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: 833.0108 F565
ISBN: 0486276198
Publication Date: 1993
Heinrich von Kleist's "The Earthquake in Chile"; E. T. A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman"; Arthur Schnitzler's "Lieutenant Gustl"; Thomas Mann's "Tristan"; Franz Kafka's "The Judgment"
Best Short Stories by Franz Kafka; Stanley Appelbaum (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: 833.912 K11S
ISBN: 0486295613
Publication Date: 1997
Included are "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy."
The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse
Call Number: 833.912 H587F
ISBN: 0553377760
Publication Date: 1995
A collection of twenty-two fairy tales

Novels

Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker; Leila Vennewitz (Translator)
Call Number: 833.914 B395J 1996
ISBN: 1559703156
Publication Date: 1996
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers; James A. Galston (Translator); Kurt Vonnegut (Foreword by); Dorothy Rosenberg (Afterword by)
Call Number: 833.912 R132SEG
ISBN: 9780853457121

The Tobacconist (Robert Seethaler)

The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)

Cassandra by Christa Wolf; Jan Van Heurck (Translator)
Call Number: 833.914 W853C 1988
ISBN: 0374519048
Publication Date: 1988

Films - Fall 2024

Jakob the Liar - available at the library: VIDEO 940.53185 J25

The Seventh Cross

The Tobacconist

The Reader - available at the library: VIDEO 791.4372 R285

Troy