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  • Beyond Good and Evil (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Friedrich Nietzsche / Ulrich Baer
    Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, ranks among the most influential works of moral philosophy to have shaped contemporary conceptions of identity, religion, democracy, psychology, and individual freedom in our age of mass societies. A devastating and deliberately provocative critique of modernity, including science, arts, and politics, the book...
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    10,60 €

  • The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    PAUL LAFARGUE / Ulrich Baer
    This newly revised and corrected translation of Lafargue’s classic The Right to Be Lazy includes 'The Woman Question,' 'The Bankruptcy of Capitalism,' 'Some Simple Socialist Truths,' and his 'Personal Recollections of Karl Marx,' along with detailed notes and a biographical timeline by translator Ulrich Baer. Work gives meaning to your life, makes you a valuable member of socie...
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    8,31 €

  • Chess Story (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Stefan Zweig / Ulrich Baer
    Stefan Zweig’s posthumously published Chess Story is the tale of a legendary chess match played on an ocean liner leaving Nazi-occupied Europe. The world champion and a man who attained mastery of chess during a harrowing ordeal are locked in a battle that becomes far more than merely a game. Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable novella powerfully renders a psychological c...
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    10,03 €

  • Monday or Tuesday (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Ulrich Baer / Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf published her only collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday, in 1919. In the book’s eight exuberant, entertaining, and happily eccentric stories, Woolf anticipates themes developed in her political writings, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas, and invents literary techniques perfected in her later novels, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. A ...
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    8,34 €

  • To the Lighthouse (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Ulrich Baer / Virginia Woolf
    Virginia Woolf considered her novel To the Lighthouse 'easily the best of my books.' A pathbreaking work of uncompromising and startling beauty, the 1927 novel is the greatest example of Woolf’s unflagging search for meaning and happiness in the face of loss and death. Indelibly memorable, deeply moving, and immensely rewarding, it ranks as one of the masterpieces of world lite...
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    10,55 €

  • Civilization and Its Discontents (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
    Sigmund Freud / Ulrich Baer
    Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes suffering on such a vast scale and whether the human drives for pleasure and aggression can ever be reconciled. This lively new translation with helpful explanatory notes captures Freud’s engaging tone for a twenty-first-century a...
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    10,91 €

  • Beggar’s Chicken
    Ulrich Baer
    Delving deep into China’s great transformation, this moving collection of stories probes the hearts of everyday individuals caught up in the country’s rapid economic development. Told with tenderness and emotional acuity, these stories introduce us to a heartbroken taxi driver, a love-struck middle-aged mother, a courageous cutting-edge designer, a drifting waiter, a Tai Chi in...
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    23,63 €

  • The Scarlet Letter (Warbler Classics)
    Carol Gilligan / Nathaniel Hawthorne / Ulrich Baer
    In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is presumed lost at sea. She refuses to name the father and is condemned to wear a scarlet “A” and live as an outcast. As she transforms the badge of shame into a symbol of freedom, Hawthorne’s dramatic masterpiece envisions an authentic relation between the sexes—and a different way of im...
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    12,06 €

  • The Call of the Wild (Warbler Classics)
    Jack London / TBD / Ulrich Baer
    Jack London’s beloved 1903 masterpiece, The Call of the Wild, is unsurpassed as the gripping adventure of Buck, a California wolf-dog enjoying the good life who is brutally kidnapped and sold into the Canadian Yukon as a sled-dog during the gold rush of the 1890s. Buck quickly has to shed his civilized ways to survive the harsh new laws of fang and club, but after terrifying ch...
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    8,21 €

  • We Are But a Moment
    Ulrich Baer
    We Are But a Moment takes the reader on a brisk tour of the globe that vividly imagines the inescapable crisis of the near future posed by overpopulation, diminishing natural resources, climate change, species extinction, and economic tumult. It is 2025, and a young White House aide, Aleks, finds himself locked up in quarantine when he tested positive after a routine briefing f...
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    11,15 €