Heinrich Böll: Eighteen Stories
by Heinrich Böll
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Short stories don't usually interest me. They are typically so fleeting. At least the contemporary short stories. These concise, varied and multi-layered stories take you into a group of characters and scenarios so deftly (if that is the right word) that you truly feel like you've gotten to know them in a very short time.
A collection of earlier short stories by the German Nobelist Heinrich Böll. They are for the most part well written and concieved--though nothing really extraordinary and tending to stick to the same thematic territory familiar to the author and set mostly in post World War II Germany. It's a good book--maybe even a good one for a reader who has not read Böll to get an idea about his work.
Publisher The Franklin Library Edition , 1982, 1982. Limited edition. Hardcover, issued without dustjacket. All leather binding, title and decoration in gilt, three raised bands on spine, silk endpapers, silk ribbon. All edges gilt. as new condition. Internally clean and bright, free of any ownership markings. Illustrated by Alan E. Cober. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz.
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Heinrich Böll was born in Cologne, Germany on December 21, 1917. He studied German at the University of Cologne. He was drafted into military service in 1938 shortly after he finished his schooling and served several years in the infantry before his demobilization in 1945. His first novel, Der Zug war pünktlich (The Train Was on Time), was show more published in 1949. His other works include Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Clown, Absent without Leave, Enter and Exit, and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. He received numerous awards including the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. He died on July 16, 1985 at the age of 67. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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