German Stories/Deutsche Erzählungen: A Bilingual Anthology
by Harry Steinhauer (Editor)
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This book is designed primarily to alleviate the agony that language learning in its early stages entails, when the foreign words in the sentence simply will not combine to make sense. Legions of beginners give up when they could have made it with the aid of a book like this. But for centuries schoolmasters have frowned on this device, calling it dirty names like crib, crutch, pony. But the truth is that highly educated and motivated people have learned to read a foreign language this way. show more The great German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who knew many ancient and modern languages, acquired them by using Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie as a pony. There are many bilingual series, such as the Loeb Classics or the Bollingen series, which have gained high prestige. show lessTags
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Harry Steinhauer is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Original publication date
- 1984
- Original language
- German
- Disambiguation notice
- Please do not combine this work with Steinhauer's German Stories = Deutsche Novellen, as that work is about 100 pages shorter, and contains a different selection of stories (although there is some overlap).
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- Genre
- Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 833.01 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction Fiction of specific media, scope, kinds {only by more than one author} Short stories
- LCC
- PT1160 .E7 .D4 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Collections Poetry
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- English, German
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- Paper
- ISBNs
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