A Place in the Country: On Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser, and Others Sebald, Winfried Georg and Catling, Jo
by W.G. Sebald
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- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Unclipped
- ISBN 10
- 1400067715
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067718
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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 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. Translator Jo Catling joined the University of East Anglia as Lecturer in German Literature and Language in 1993, teaching German and European literature alongside W. G. Sebald. She has published widely on Sebald and Rainer Maria Rilke.
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- Re-Read Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E0185898
- Title
- A Place in the Country: On Gottfried Keller, Johann Peter Hebel, Robert Walser, and Others Sebald, Winfried Georg and Catling, Jo
- Author
- W.G. Sebald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- Unclipped
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1400067715
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067718
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- Date Published
- 2014-02-17
- Size
- 5x1x8
- X weight
- 16 oz
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