A German-English Bilingual Edition.

Breathturn (German: Atemwende) is the first of Paul Celan's three major poetry books before his death by suicide in 1970. This book brilliantly reveals the Wende or turning point of his writing.

Translator Pierre Joris won the 2004 PEN Translation Award for Paul Celan's Lightduress.

The Life of Jesus is neither a historical fiction nor a devout retelling of the mission and passion of Christ. Rather, it is an unabashed and intimately revealing autobiographical fiction told primarily in the terms of Gospel legend.

Luis Buñuel (1900-1983) was a Spanish and Mexican filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time. Known for his surrealism and political commentary, he collaborated with painter Salvador Dali on Un Chien Andalou (1929), won an Academy Award for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), and was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The screenplay of The Exterminating Angel (1962), one of his most humorous and visually dazzling films, is a linguistically brilliant satire of social aspirations.

An aristocrat named Nobile invites several society friends to his house after the opera. But even as the dinner preparations are underway, servants feel compelled to leave. Despite threats of dismissal, the footman also leaves, and, as guests arrive, other servants escape. Dinner is served and hours pass, but the guests do not leave. Finally, each refusing to be the first to leave the party, distrust sets in, and the guests turn on their host, blaming him for their self-induced captivity.

Written and published in 1843, the year after Charles Dickens traveled through the United States, A Christmas Carol has proved to be one of his most popular and well read works. Although he wrote it originally with the hope of paying outstanding bills, the book (self-printed with an expensive binding) did not bring in as much money as he had hoped, and he was forced to move his family to Genoa. There, in the hot Italian summer, Dickens penned his second Christmas story, The Chimes.

Today, few readers need introduction to the anti-hero Ebenezer Scrooge, his dastardly treatment of his employee and family, and his ba-humbug attitude towards Christmas-all changed by a nightmarish sleep of visions past, present, and future.

This new edition, printed with the original John Leech illustrations, again reveals why this classic is so appealing.