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A compendium of writings on the Erie Canal by a range of important literary figures. The Erie Canal Reader--poems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by major American and British writers--captures the colorful landscape and life along the Erie Canal from its birth in the New York frontier, through its heyday as a passage of culture and commerce, to its present decline into disuse. Part celebration of the men and women who worked its waters and ...

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Ingeborg Hecht's father, a prosperous Jewish attorney, was divorced from his titled German wife in 1933 two years before the promulgation of the Nuremberg laws -- and so was deprived of what these laws termed "privileged mixed matrimony." He died in Auschwitz. His two children, called "half-Jews, " were stripped of their rights, prevented from earning a living, and forbidden to marry.In this book, Hecht writes of life under these circumstances...

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Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since his last book, The Transparent Man.

Do the Windows Open? is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail-tales that have had readers of The New Yorker laughing out loud for years.The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearly everything interesting and almost nothing clear-has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses ...

Augsburg. 1898-1917 Augsburg und München. 1917-1920 Augsburg, München und Berlin. 1920-1924 Berlin. 1924-1933 Suche nach einem Exilort. 1933 Svendborg, Skovsbostrand. Dänemark. 1933-1939 Lidingö. Schweden. 1939/40 Helsinki, Marlebäck. Finnland. 1940/41 Reise nach Amerika. 1941 Santa Monica, Kalifornien. USA. 1941-1947 Zürich und Feldmeilen. Schweiz. 1947-1949 Berlin/DDR. 1949-1 956 Anhang Nachwort Nachweis der Quellen und Abkürzungen Alphabeti...