A German Reader and Theme Book

A German Reader and Theme Book
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Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015071632702
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Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis A German Reader and Theme Book by : Calvin Thomas

The Reader

The Reader
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9780375726972
ISBN-13 : 0375726977
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Reader by : Bernhard Schlink

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. "A formally beautiful, disturbing and finally morally devastating novel." —Los Angeles Times When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover—then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

A New History of German Literature

A New History of German Literature
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 1038
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ISBN-10 : 0674015037
ISBN-13 : 9780674015036
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis A New History of German Literature by : David E. Wellbery

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

Guilt about the Past

Guilt about the Past
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Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Total Pages : 93
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ISBN-10 : 9780702251931
ISBN-13 : 0702251933
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Guilt about the Past by : Bernhard Schlink

From the author of the international bestselling novel The Reader comes a compelling collection of six essays exploring the long shadow of past guilt, not just a German experience, but a global one as well.?I know of no other writer who engages with the struggle between the individual and the political world as deftly - and poetically - as Bernhard Schlink.' - The Herald Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behaviour, how to.

Invisible Woman

Invisible Woman
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 1433102781
ISBN-13 : 9781433102783
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Invisible Woman by : Ika Hügel-Marshall

"Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. As an «occupation baby», born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Although loved by her mother, Ika's experiences with German society's reaction to her skin color resonate with the insidiousness of racism, thus instilling in her a longing to meet her biological father. When she is seven, the state places her into a church-affiliated orphanage far away from where her mother, sister, and stepfather live. She is exposed to the scorn and cruelty of the nuns entrusted with her care. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago."--Publisher description.

German Quickly

German Quickly
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Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : UOM:49015002625508
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Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis German Quickly by : April Wilson

German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German is a thorough, straightforward textbook with a sense of fun. It teaches the fundamentals for reading German literary and scholarly texts of all levels and difficulty. It can be used as an introductory text for students with no background in German, or it can serve as a reference text for students wishing to review German. The grammar explanations are detailed and clear, and the accompanying reading selections, consisting partly of aphorisms and proverbs, are intriguing. There are also many informative appendices, including a summary of German grammar, a detailed description of German dictionaries currently available, and a vocabulary list of 3200 words that are commonly encountered in scholarly writings.

German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes

German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780429588891
ISBN-13 : 0429588895
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes by : Alexander Burdumy

German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes allows researchers and learners with no prior understanding of German to gain an understanding of written German at CEFR C2/ACTFL Intermediate-High level that will allow them to read a variety of German texts, including research articles and monographs. This is achieved by looking closely at the elements of German grammar required for the understanding of written German along with practical advice and observations. One of the main themes running through the textbook is that it uses a toolkit approach that puts deductive reasoning and decoding skills at its heart to allow learners to engage with a wide variety of texts.

The German Lesson

The German Lesson
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : 9780811222266
ISBN-13 : 0811222268
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The German Lesson by : Siegfried Lenz

In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

The Book Thief

The Book Thief
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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 578
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ISBN-10 : 9780307433848
ISBN-13 : 0307433846
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book Thief by : Markus Zusak

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.

Torpedoed

Torpedoed
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9781250187550
ISBN-13 : 1250187559
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Torpedoed by : Deborah Heiligman

From award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII. Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set sail for Canada with one hundred children on board. When the war ships escorting the Benares departed, a German submarine torpedoed what became known as the Children's Ship. Out of tragedy, ordinary people became heroes. This is their story. This title has Common Core connections.