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Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001 by W. G. Sebald
37.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
"Across the Land and the Water" brings together poems published during W.G. Sebald's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. Arranged chronologically, from work published during his student days in the 1960s ...Show more
After Nature by W.G. Sebald
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Three men walk the pages of W. G. Sebald's first literary work - the painter Mathaeus Grunewald, the botanist Georg Wilhelm Steller and W. G. Sebald himself. Written as a long poem in three parts, After Nature delves into each of these lives in turn, teasing out the haunting uncertainties of the past an ...Show more
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in ...Show more
Austerlitz by W G Sebald
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The main locations of the book are Wales, London, Prague, and various places in Belgium and Paris. The real life story of Jacques Austerlitz who, at the age of 5, came to London on one of the so-called kinder-transports in the summer of 1939. Austerlitz is placed with foster parents in wales, a child ...Show more
Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald (tr Anthea Bell)
55.00 NZD
59.95 (8% off)
Category: Fiction
At the heart of this volume are four lyrical and meditative prose fragments, from a great, still incomplete work he was planning, centring on the island of Corsica. The title piece was discovered after his death. Literary essays on those literary greats Sebald felt an affinity with complete the volum ...Show more
On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald (formerly Professor of European Literature, University of East Anglia)
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The darkest aspects of the final act of destruction, as experienced by the great majority of the German population, remained under a kind of taboo like a shameful family secret, a secret that perhaps could not even be privately acknowledged
Pocket Penguin : Young Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
4.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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 Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
24.95 NZD
Category: Business
Framed by the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, the narrator's own tales act as a conductor for stories and evocations of the lives of people and cultures, both past and present.
The Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald
18.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
"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
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