San Antonio College Library

This is the first complete and comprehen­sive book in English on the important postwar German writers known as Group 47. The "group," established in 1947 after the newspaper Der Ruf was banned, was inspired by a belief in the effectiveness of literature to change society, and for two decades served as initiator of new trends and barometers of changing literary tastes and social conditions. There are so many important writers connected with the group...

German history from Bismarck to Hitler.

This is a penetrating and often brilliant study of Bertolt Brecht, best known in America for his immensely popular Phreepenny Opera. But few here realize that he was also the author of at least a dozen other plays, of volumes of satiric verse, and of short stories, and was hailed as the "apostle of a new dramatic era". Brecht's life and work was shaped by the grim events of the first World War, of the depression, revolution and rise of Hitler. During...

"Based on all available sources, including unpublished letters, diaries, and the rich materials of the Thomas Mann Archives in Zürich, it bids fair to be regarded for many years as the authoritative handbook on Mann... [The] main facts of Mann's life and literary career have now been established and presented in a most careful and conscientious way..."--Jacket flap.