Classic European Literature – all Bücher, CDs und LPs

Out of the Darkness

A treasure chest of stories by Swedish authors from the 1880s to the 1950s, many appearing for the first time in EnglishIn the late nineteenth century, Swedish romanticism gave way to vibrant new literary…

available from 26.5.2026.

Buch

Novalis,
Novalis's 'Heinrich Von Ofterdingen'

Consumed by thoughts of a mysterious flower, Heinrich leaves his cold homeland and travels south until he meets Mathilde, who opens his eyes to the world's mysteries. Then a tragic event reveals the secre…

available from 31.7.2026.

Buch

Rachel K Teubner
Dante and the Practice of Humility

In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humi…

deliverable within 1-2 weeks

Buch

Ailén Cruz
From Griffin to Axolotl

From Griffin to Axolotl examines the resurgence of the medieval bestiary genre in contemporary Hispanic literature.

deliverable within 1-2 weeks

Buch

Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer
Cervantes the Poet

Cervantes the Poet travels from the court of Isabel de Valois to Rome, Naples, Palermo, Algiers, and Madrid's barrio de las letras. Recovering Cervantes' nearly forty-year literary career before the publi…

deliverable within 1-2 weeks

Buch

Krys
The Origins of Ukrainian Gothic

Ukrainian dark prose that draws on the conventions of the British and western European Gothic novel emerged in the nineteenth century and continued uninterrupted until the early twentieth century. Writers…

available from 19.5.2026.

Buch

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Selected Poems

Authoritative English translations of Goethe's major poetic worksGoethe created a body of poetry that is unsurpassed in lucidity of speech and imagery and in instinct for melody and rhythm. The founder of…

Coming soon

Buch

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Verse Plays and Epic

Five enduring works that demonstrate Goethe's mastery of poetic form and engagement with neoclassical idealsThis volume presents the four plays and the narrative poem that, along with Faust , established …

Coming soon

Buch

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Literature

Italian literature is among the most ancient and influential Western literatures. With its classics spanning from the Middle Ages to our contemporaneity, the impact of Italian literature worldwide has bee…

available from 30.6.2026.

Buch

Steffan Davies
German Exile Literature in the Age of Nations

Extends the conception of German exile literature back from the Nazi period into the nineteenth century, arguing that exile has been a defining component of modern German writing.German exile literature h…

available from 14.4.2026.

Buch

François de La Rochefoucauld,
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections

This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers …

deliverable within 1-2 weeks

Buch

Hungarian Literature as World Literature

Synthesizes contemporary research on world literature while introducing Hungarian literature's 'worldliness' to an international readership.Hungarian Literature as World Literature provides readers less f…

available from 9.7.2026.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and World Literature

The archive of Romantic studies is every day expanding far beyond its Anglo-European confines, incorporating an ever-volatile constellation of works that, like World Literature, understands itself not in …

available from 31.7.2026.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least u…

available from 31.5.2026.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Walter Pater

This is the first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and philosopher. One of the late nineteenth century's most important and least u…

available from 31.5.2026.

Buch

Paul Eggert
How D. H. Lawrence Wrote

Paul Eggert's book meshes biographical scholarship and editorial theory with literary-critical analysis to offer a fresh understanding and appreciation of how D. H. Lawrence wrote. By concentrating on the…

available from 30.6.2026.

Buch

The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume not only connects the letters of Ignatius Sancho to their social and historical contexts but also highlights t…

available from 31.5.2026.

Buch

Early Deane

Seamus Deane combined academic rigour with an expressive style that was characterised by both passion and commitment. Without losing any scholarly precision or acuity, he succeeded in engaging broader aud…

available from 31.8.2026.

Buch

Liliane Campos
Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Liliane Campos argues that contemporary fiction is shaping a new, multi-scalar view of life. In the early twenty-first century, humans face complex relations of dependency with the invisibly small and the…

available from 30.4.2026.

Buch

Omaar Hena
British Black and Asian Poetry

This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant. Througho…

available from 30.6.2026.

Buch