The Stories of Heinrich Böll

The Stories of Heinrich Böll

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 710

ISBN-13: 9780810112070

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Contains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.


Group Portrait with Lady

Group Portrait with Lady

Author: Heinrich Boll

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2011-04-05

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1935554964

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Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.


Billiards at Half-past Nine

Billiards at Half-past Nine

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780140187243

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Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi


And where Were You, Adam?

And where Were You, Adam?

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780810111790

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Reprint of the McGraw-Hill translation (1970) of Boll's great novel of WWII. Cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Safety Net

The Safety Net

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 193555431X

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At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.


The Clown

The Clown

Author: Heinrich Boll

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1935554859

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Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards. Heinrich Böll’s gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealism—how to find something to believe in—gives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one.


What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books

What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books

Author: Heinrich Böll

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 9780810112087

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In 1981, Heinrich Boll returned to the streets of his childhood in this remarkable collection of nonfiction. This volume captures the musings of a mature Boll as he looks back with fondness and with anger on his formative years: as a student who avoided school but lived for his education on the street; and as a young man forced to grapple with the moral horror that was Hitler. What's to Become of the Boy - superbly translated by Leila Vennewitz - provides uncommon insight into Boll's maturation as an author and as a man.


Irish Journal

Irish Journal

Author: Heinrich Boll

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2011-05-31

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1935554832

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A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.