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ACROSS THE LAND AND THE WATER: SELECTED POEMS, 1964-2001.
by SEBALD, W. G. ( Winfried Georg )
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0241144736
- ISBN 13
- 9780241144732
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London,, 2011. First Edition In English. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 8vo. pp xxv, 213. Original publisher's cream cloth, lettered gilt on spine. From the library of the British novelist and poet Barry Cole (1936 - 2014) with his ownership signature. ISBN: 0241144736
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W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated books— The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz —have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the LiteraTour Nord Prize. He died in December 2001. Iain Galbraith was born in Glasgow in 1956 and studied modern languages and comparative literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg, and Mainz, where he taught for several years. He has edited works by Stevenson, Hogg, Scott, Boswell, and Conrad, and contributed essays to many books and journals in the U.K., France, and Germany. He is a widely published translator of German-language writing, especially poetry, into English, winning the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation in 2004.
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- Title
- ACROSS THE LAND AND THE WATER: SELECTED POEMS, 1964-2001.
- Author
- SEBALD, W. G. ( Winfried Georg )
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition In English. Hardback. Dust Jacket.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0241144736
- ISBN 13
- 9780241144732
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London,
- Date Published
- 2011
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