The Stories of Heinrich Böll
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 9780810112070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.
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The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-12-06
Total Pages: 978
ISBN-13: 161219012X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form. Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.
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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Group Portrait with Lady
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1935554964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCited 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
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780140187243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Or, How Violence Develops and where it Can Lead
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780140187281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
Children are Civilians Too
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly visiting bars and brothels; stories of children rendered with a simplicity that belies their emotional impact; and stark vignettes of people struggling to re-make their lives against the ruined landscape of war-devastated towns and villages. Representing Boll's youthful beginnings, this collection introduces the themes that inform his life-long literary accomplishments and the wit, intelligence, and lyricism that made Boll one of contemporary Europe's most acclaimed writers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
And where Were You, Adam?
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780810111790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint 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
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 193555431X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt 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
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1935554859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcclaimed 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.
