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On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
In the last years of World War II, the Allies dropped a million bombs on Germany. Yet the German people have been silent about the resulting devestation and loss of life, failing to recognise the terrible shadow that destruction from the air cast over their land. Here W.G. Sebald asks why it is we turn ...Show more
Pocket Penguin : Young Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
W.G.Sebald dies just as Penguin, his last publisher, began to take him to the wide audience his writing always deserved. His seamless blend of fiction, autobiography, biography, history and travel produced texts of hynoptic power that explore our relationship with the landscapes of the past. In Young Au ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
At first "The Emigrants" appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss. Written with a bone-dry sen ...Show more
The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
$36.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: The four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school teacher, and Great Uncle Ambrose. Following (literally) in their footsteps, the narrator retra ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Rings of Saturn chronicles a tour across epochs as well as the East Anglian countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions, and links them to the natural history of the herring, and a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem.
The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jeru ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silk ...Show more
The Rings of Saturn: (Vintage Voyages) by W.G. Sebald
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Voyages Ser.
VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present- of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fi ...Show more
Three Book Sebald Set: The Emigrants, the Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
$82.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
New Directions is delighted to announce beautiful new editions of these three classic Sebald novels, including his two greatest works, The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. All three novels are distinguished by their translations, every line of which Sebald himself made pitch-perfect, slaving to carry ...Show more
Unrecounted : 33 texts and 33 etchings by W.G. Sebald
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
For a number of years until his death in 2001, W. G. Sebald and the German artist Jan Peter Tripp exchanged poems and lithographs. Unrecounted is the result of this long artistic friendship - a creative dialogue inspired by shared concerns. Sebald's words and Tripp's images speak of moments salvaged fro ...Show more
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Perfectly titled, Vertigo --W.G. Sebald's marvelous first novel -- is a work that teeters on the edge: compelling, puzzling, and deeply unsettling. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys accross Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood home in a small Bavari ...Show more
Vertigo by W. G. Sebald
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Vertigo is the marvelous first novel by W.G. Sebald: "The most exciting, and most mysteriously sublime, of contemporary European writers" (James Wood, The New Republic). An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, journeys across Europe to Vienna, Venice, Verona, Riva, and finally to his childhood h ...Show more