The Mad Dog
by Heinrich Böll
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Early stories by a German writer on life during World War II. In Fugitive, an army chaplain betrays a deserter, Trapped in Paris is a love story between a German and a Frenchwoman, and the title story is on the way war brutalizes men.Tags
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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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- Please distinguish this 1997 English-language anthology of early Heinrich Böll stories from the 1995 German-language edition, Der blasse Hund: Erzählungen. The English edition contains only 10 stories; the German ed... (show all)ition also includes an 11th story, "Anekdote vom deutschen Wunder." Thank you.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
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- PT2603 .O394 .M573 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1860/70-1960
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