Literary Translations

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Death and the Maiden
The Curious Relationship Between the Fear of the Feminine and the Fear of Death
Death and the Maiden: The Curious Relationship Between the Fear of the Feminine and the Fear of Death by Brigid Burke is a provocative exploration of the entangled roots of gender, mortality, and cultural anxiety.

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Demian
The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth
This bildungsroman, a classic of German literature, is about the development of the individual and the choices that one faces in this journey to selfhood.

Author: Hermann Hesse, Translator: Thomas Wayne Price range: $14.95 through $24.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Ecce Homo, and The Antichrist
Although Nietzsche completed both Ecce Homo and The Antichrist by the end of 1888, they were considered so inflammatory that they were published only years later, in 1895 and 1908, respectively. Both are products of Nietzsche’s last creative year.

Friedrich Nietzsche Price range: $22.95 through $29.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Faust
A Tragedy in Two Parts
Part One: The Faustian Bargain and Gretchen’s Tragedy: Here is the iconic tale of Dr. Faust, a scholar who makes a pact with the devil, Mephistopheles, in his desperate quest for knowledge, power, and worldly pleasures. In exchange for his soul.

J W von Goethe, Trans. by Thomas Wayne Price range: $24.95 through $34.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’
A Study of Law, Rhetoric, and Authorship
Could Bacon be Bellario in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice? This is the first book-length exploration of the mysterious Bellario, the old Italian jurist whose advice Portia seeks out.

Christina G. Waldman Price range: $25.95 through $36.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Max Weber’s Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations
Max Weber made many significant interpretations of both academic and political vocations in his two lectures on ‘Science as a Vocation’ (Wissenschaft als Beruf, 1917) and ‘Politics as a Vocation’ (Politik als Beruf, 1919), as well as in a series of…

Edited and with an Introduction by John Dreijmanis Price range: $24.95 through $40.00 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Shakespeare’s The Tempest
A Modern English Translation
The book is, quite simply, a line-by-line rendition of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest , translated into modern English. The original play’s five act structure has been preserved, with a one-to-one correspondence between each original line and each translated line.

Morgan D. Rosenberg Price range: $9.95 through $19.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The legendary King Arthur and his most chivalrous knight, Sir Gawain, star in this classic Middle English romantic poem relating a haunting tale of temptation.

Translator: Thomas Wayne Price range: $16.95 through $26.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Steppenwolf
Thomas Wayne presents a fresh new translation of this existentialist classic. Steppenwolf is a particular favorite of young adults confronting life’s deepest questions and equally liberating for readers facing a mid-life crisis.

Author: Hermann Hesse Price range: $22.95 through $32.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
The Shakespeare Game
Or the Mystery of the Great Phoenix
Gililov, Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Shakespeare Committee, sets out in intricate detective-novel detail why he believes the fifth Earl of Rutland and his wife actually wrote Shakespeare’s work.

Ilya Gililov Price range: $29.95 through $48.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page
Thus Spake Zarathustra
“Zarathustra” was Nietzsche’s masterpiece, the first comprehensive statement of his mature philosophy, and the introduction of his influential and well-known (and misunderstood) ideas including the “overman” or “superman” and the “will to power.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Translator: Thomas Wayne Price range: $22.95 through $28.95 View Details This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page