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Bernhard Schlink
Bernhard Schlink (born 1944)

jurist, judge, poet lawyer

  • Heidelberg University, Free University Berlin

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Selbs Justiz
Selbs Betrug
Selbs Mord
Der Vorleser
Heimkehr
Liebesfluchten
El lector
Die Gordische Schleife
Guilt About The Past
Flights of Love
Homecoming
Das Wochenende
Olga
Weimar
Vergangenheitsschuld
Summer lies
Flights Of Love
Abwägung im Verfassungsrecht
Sommerlügen
Wo yuan yi wei ni lang du
Die Heimkehr
Lektürehilfen Der Vorleser.
The woman on the stairs
Summer Lies
Heimat als Utopie. Sonderdruck
The woman on the stairs
Homecoming (Vintage International)
Vergewisserungen: uber Politik, Recht, Schreiben und Glauben
Die Amtshilfe
Summer lies
Le Liseur
Brouillard sur Mannheim
Vergangenheitsschuld
Amours en fuite
Vergewisserungen
Zuckererbsen
Jurisprudence of crisis
Vergangenheitsschuld und gegenwärtiges Recht
Le liseur
German constitutional law
Liebesfluchten
Polizei- und Ordnungsrecht
Edition Suhrkamp, Bd. 2168: Vergangenheitsschuld und gegenw artiges Recht
Mujer bajando una escalera
Gui xiang
Guisantes
Le retour
La Circoncision
German constitutional law
Flights of love
Un hiver à Mannheim
Obman Zelʹba
De liefdesval
Rechtlicher Wandel durch richterliche Entscheidung
Naʻar ḳeriʼah
Jurisprudence of crisis
Amores En Fuga
Okuyucu
Nigeteyuku ai
El fin de semana
De oude zonden
Liebersfluchten =
Die Frau auf der Treppe
Zhou mo
La nieta
Čytec'
Čytecʹ
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)

poet, literary critic, journalist, autobiographer

  • University of Oxford

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The crime of the century
The Riverside Villas murder
The crime of the century
The Green Man
The Riverside Villas murder
Riverside Villas Murder
Riverside Villas Murder
The Russian girl
Possible Tomorrows
Dead of Night
Stanley and the women
Jake's Thing
The Anti-Death League
Take a Girl Like You
The folks that live on the hill
The Green Man
I want it now
The King's English
Difficulties With Girls
Memoirs
New maps of hell
Ending up
One fat Englishman
Lucky Jim
The light fantastic
I Like it Here
Collected poems, 1944-1979
New Oxford book of English light verse
The Alteration
I like it here
Collected short stories
The Golden Age of Science Fiction
Girl, 20
The old devils
The old devils
The Amis collection
Lucky Jim (TV tie-in)
The alteration
Everyday Drinking
Jake's Thing
Colonel Sun
Take a Girl Like You
The Amis story anthology
The folks that live on the hill
Collected Short Stories
What became of Jane Austen? And other questions
The Egyptologists
That Uncertain Feeling
Correspondence
Russian hide and seek
Rudyard Kipling and his world
Ending up
Conversations with Kingsley Amis
Russian Hide and Seek
Colonel Sun
Old Devils
Difficulties with girls
Stanley and the Women
We are all guilty
You can't do both
COLONEL SUN
Rudyard Kipling
We Are All Guilty
I want it now
The biographer's moustache
Mr. Barrett's secret and other stories
You Can't Do Both
On drink
Dear Illusion
Green Man
You Can'T Do Both (Hutch S.Sale)
One Fat Englishman
Take a Girl Like You
Dear Illusion
Jake's Thing (Vintage Blue)
One Fat Englishman
Colonel Sun (James Bond 007 (Blackstone))
Amis, The Collected Poems of Kingsley
Complete Stories
The Amis anthology
Spectrum 3
Jake's Thing
Ending up
The Amis collection
How's Your Glass?
Girl, 20
Lucky Jim's politics
Colonel Sun
Complete Stories
Collected poems
I Like It Here
My enemy's enemy
The Best winners of the Booker Prize
Everyday Drinking
My enemy's enemy
Girl, 20
Colonel Sun; a James Bond adventure
Mr. Barrett's Secret
What became of Jane Austen?
Kingsley Amis
We Are All Guilty (Plus)
You can't do both
I want it now
The pleasure of poetry
How's your glass?
James Bond
New maps of hell
Spectrum
My enemy's enemy
The Darkwater Hall mystery
We Are All Guilty
The riverside villas murder [Book]
Anti-Death League
A frame of mind
Spectrum
The Great British songbook
A case of samples : poems 1946-1956
Spectrum III
Spectrum 5
The Anti-Death League
Spectrum 3
The Faber Popular Reciter
The King's English
The Letters of Kingsley Amis
What became of Jane Austen?
Take a girl like you [Book]
Kingsley Amis, Dom Moraes [and] Peter Porter
Difficulties With Girls
Difficulties With Girls
Spectrum
New Maps Of Hell A Survey Of Science Fiction
The green man
Socialism and the intellectuals
The Evans Country
The Amis anthology
A look round the estate
The Amis Anthology
The old devils
Stanley y las mujeres
A case of samples
Colonel Sun
That uncertain feeling
Spectrum 4
Colonel Sun
Spectrum 4
You can't do both
The folks that live on the hill
Everyday Drinking
Spectrum V
My Enemys Enemy Kingsley Amis
The Faber popular reciter
A Look Around the Estate
Bright November
I Want It Now
Spectrum II
The James Bond dossier
An arts policy?
The Ant-Death League
The pleasure of poetry
Alteration
Penguin Modern Poets
La moustache du biographe
The New Oxford book of light verse
On drink
Egyptologists, The
Spectrum 2
The crime of the century
One fat Englishman
New Oxford Book of English Light Verse
You Can T Do Both
The new Oxford book of light verse / chosen by Kingsley Amis
A look round the estate
The Anti-Death League
Spectrum 5
A case of samples
Interesting Things
The Green Man
Take a girl like you
New Oxford book of English light verse
Folks That Live on the Hill
One Fat Englishman
Ekh baḥurah she-kamokh?
Collected poems, 1944-1979
All the Blood Within Me
Spectrum 4
Los viejos demonios
I Like it Here
Collected Poems
On drink
Take a Girl Like You
I Like it Here
Collected poems 1944-1979
King's English
Russian Girl
Poems
L' univers de la science-fiction
Memoirs
That uncertain feeling
My Enemy"s Enemy
Sobrebeber
Take a Girl Like You
Biographer's Moustache
the Riverside Villas Murder
The green man
Collected Poems 1944-1979
I Like It Here
Stanley and the women
Spectrum 5
That uncertain feeling
Mr. Barrett's secret and other stories
Black paper 1975
Girl, 20
The Riverside Villas murder
"Das Auge des Basilisken : e. Melodram ; Science-fiction-Roman (a6t)"
You Can't Do Both
The Egyptologists
Dear Illusion
Difficulties With Girls
Lucky Jim (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Book Was Better : 100 Pages , 8. 5 X 11 Inches , Brown Craft Paper Style Cover
A case of samples
I like it here
A look round the estate
One Fat Englishman
A look round the estate
I Want It Now
The Darkwater Hall mystery
Old Devils
Amis Collection
The Egyptologists
Spectrum II
The James Bond dossier
My Enemy's Enemy
Spectrum III
I Don't Need Therapy I Need Books : 100 Pages , 8. 5 X 11 Inches , Brown Craft Paper Style Cover
The Savoy food and drink book
My Enemy's Enemy
Lucky Jim, a Novel
Rudyard Kipling and his world
My Enemy's Enemy
The Anti-death League by Kingsley Amis (1975-11-30)
Complete Stories
G'im bar mazal
Everyday Drinking
One fat Englishman
Spectrum IV
Take a Girl Like You
A Kingsley Amis omnibus
The Green Man
New maps of hell
The New Oxford book of English light verse / chosen by Kingsley Amis
The James Bond dossier
The Russian girl
Collected Poems
Take a girl like you
A frame of mind
A Look Round the Estate, Poems 1957-67
The James Bond Dossier
Jim o sortudo
Alteration
Spectrum 3
The biographer's moustache
Jake's Thing
Anti-Death League
Crime of the Century
That Uncertain Feeling
Ėta russkai͡a
Old Devils
Difficulties W/Girls
King's English
Lucky Jim. Guild edition
Spectrum
Penguin Modern Poets 2
Ending Up
Raising a Smile
One fat Englishman
The old devils
Take a girl like you
A look round the estate
One Fat Englishman. A Novel
The James Bond dossier
New Novel
Jake's Thing
Sur La Fin
The Russian Girl
The Anti-Death League, a novel
We are all guilty
New Maps of Hell
I want it now
Old Devils
Folks That Live on the Hill
Colonel Sun; a James Bond adventure
The Great British songbook
La suerte de Jim
Lucky Jim
Collected short stories
The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse
What Became of Jane Austen? and Other Questions
Cuentos completos
What became of Jane Austen?
On Drink
Spectrum V
That uncertain feeling
That Uncertain Feeling
Ending Up
English Light Verse
Talihli Jim
Poems and Essays, etc
New maps of hell
Harolds Years
The Anti-Death League
Memoirs
Memoirs
The James Bond Dossier
Take a girl like you
One Fat Englishman
The Anti-Death League
What became of Jane Austen? and other questions
Letters of Kingsley Amis
Stanley and the Women
OMNIBUS
The Evans Country
Un Anglais bien en chair
Take a girl like you
The green man
A Kingsley Amis omnibus
Spectrum : No. 1
Spectrum
A look around the estate: poems 1957-1967
The Compleat Imbiber
Spectrum
Socialism and the intellectuals
I like it here; a novel
The Egyptologist
Jake's thing
Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes (1927-2014)

journalist

  • Brooklyn College, New York University

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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Silver Level
Prentice Hall Literature--Silver
Pearson Literature - California - Reading and Language
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Readers Companion--Silver Level
The InterActive Reader
The Hugo Winners [volume I]
The Hugo Winners, Volumes one and two
Flowers for Algernon
The Magazine of fantasy and science fiction. A 30-year retrospective
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury (The Future in Question / Space Mail)
Unveiling Claudia
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume Two
The minds of Billy Milligan
The Super Hugos
The touch
The experience of literature
Stories of Suspense
The fifth Sally
American Science Fiction : Four Classic Novels 1960-1966
Algernon, Charlie and I, A Writer's Journey - Plus the Complete Original Short Novelette Version of "Flowers for Algernon"
The Milligan Wars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1960
The First Men (Howard Fast) / Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) / The Second Kind of Loneliness (George R. R. Martin)
Galaxy Science Fiction, Vol. 16, No. 4
Kokoro no kagami
The Asylum Prophecies
24 ha-panim shel Bili Miligen
Billy Milligan'in Zihinleri
Space Mail
Kwiaty dla Algernona
Flores para Algernon
Algernon, Charlie et moi
Flowers for Algernon (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
Charly
The Minds of Billy Milligan. 1/2
The Milligan Wars. 1/2
The Milligan Wars. 2/2
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 1959)

playwright, literary critic, actor

  • University of Oxford, University of Oxford

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Framed
Framed
Millions
Everywhere
Millions
Cosmic
The astounding broccoli boy
Cosmic
Millions CD
Over The Moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time
Framed CD
The Unforgotten Coat
The unforgotten coat
Cosmic
Welcome to Sarajevo
Radioactive Rory
Millions CD Low Price
Millions
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again
Rollercoasters
Sputnik's guide to life on Earth
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang And The Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over the moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Millions
El mundo del Valle de los Mumin
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Cosmic
The Astounding broccoli boy
Runaway Robot
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again!. by Frank Cottrell Boyce
The Claim
Litmus
Desirable
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Over the Moon
The Unforgotten Coat. Frank Cottrell Boyce
New Longman Literature New Titles Pack
Ten Years on the Parish
Noah's Gold
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 3
Ted Rules the World
Galánta
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Race Against Time
Millions
Der unvergessene Mantel
Kozmik
Triple Word Score
Fframio
Forgiveness
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth Lib/E
Ucan Araba Pirpir Havalaniyor
The Great Rocket Robbery
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Wonder Brothers
Le crime parfait
Süper Brokoli Cocuk
Ucan Araba Pirpir Yarista
Robot a la fuga
Framed
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang et la course contre le temps
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Manual de la vida terrícola
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth
Watership Down
Manual de la vida terrícola
Desirable
Quadri e ladri. Un colpo da ragazzi
Doctor Who
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over the Moon
Meisterwerk
A cuadros
Cosmic
Millones
Idealʹnoe prestuplenie
Broccoli-Boy rettet die Welt
The Astounding Broccoli Boy
Melanie Rawn
Melanie Rawn (born 1954)

teacher, academic

  • Scripps College

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Spellbinder
Sun-Runner's Fire (Dragon Prince, Book 3)
The Mageborn traitor
Skybowl
The ruins of Ambrai
The golden key
Elsewhens
The Star Scroll (Dragon Prince)
Dragon Prince #1 (Dragon Prince)
Knights of the morningstar
Epic
Stronghold (Dragon Star, Book 1)
The Dragon Token (Dragon Star, Book 2)
The Diviner
Fire raiser
Thornlost
Touchstone
Drachenprinz 04. Der Schatten des Bruders.
Window Wall (Glass Thorns)
Drachenprinz 06. Der Brand der Wüste.
Drachenprinz 01. Das Gesicht im Feuer.
Drachenprinz 03. Das Band der Sterne.
Ruins of Ambrai (Exiles)
Drachenprinz 02. Die Braut des Lichts.
The Golden Key (Daw Book Collectors)
Drachenprinz 05. Die Flammen des Himmels.
Quantum Leap
Das Bildnis der Unsterblichkeit
Die Farben der Unendlichkeit
Playing to the Gods
The Captal's Tower (Exiles, Vol. 3)
Zeit der Wiederkunft
Fire raiser
Glass Thorns: Touchstone (Book One)
Melanie Rawn Mobile
Touchstone
Glass Thorns - Elsewhens (Book Two)
Dragon Prince / The Star Scroll / Sunrunner's Fire
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje (born 1943)

poet, pedagogue

  • University of Toronto, Dulwich College

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Anil's ghost
The English Patient
The collected works of Billy the Kid
Divisadero
Coming through slaughter
Running in the family
The English Patient
India
The Conversations
In the skin of a lion
Handwriting
The cinnamon peeler
Coming through slaughter
The Story
Running in the family
The collected works of Billy the Kid
From Ink Lake
Warlight: A novel
The cat's table
Elimination dance
100 journeys for the spirit
The cat's table
Lost classics
Handwriting
In the skin of a lion
Rat jelly
The cat's table
DIVISADERO
Divisadero
Running in the Family
Leonard Cohen
There's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do
Warlight
Rat Jelly & Other Poems
Angielski pacjent
La Peau Dun Lion
Elimination dance
O fantasma de Anil
Anils Geist
The dainty monsters
Rat jelly
Seifertova světlem oděná
Anils genfrd
Le Blues de Buddy Bolden
Brushes with greatness
Ondaatje There'S A Trick with A Knife I'M Learni Ng to Do (Paper)
Secular love
Coming Through Slaughter
El Fantasma De Anil
The Cat's Table
El Paciente Ingles
Un air de famille
A Book of beasts
Warlight
Secular love
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Personal fictions
Prizrak Anil
La table des autres
El viaje de mina
Divisadero
The broken ark, a book of beasts
Warlight
En Una Piel de Leon
In The Skin Of A Lio
Divisadero
In the Skin of a Lion (Picador Books)
The cinnamon peeler
Poets of Contemporary Canada 1960- 1970.
El paciente inglés
Two poems
The dainty monsters
The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories
In der Haut Eines Lowen
Bearhug
Koshkin stol
Anils skugga
The collected works of Billy the Kid
Vintage Ondaatje
De Engelse patiënt
The man with seven toes
Previous Canoes
La table des autres
In de familie
Anglas ligonis
Le fantôme d'Anil
The man with seven toes
Notte senza scale =
Rat Jelly and Other Poems, 1963-78
The collected works of Billy the Kid ; Running in the family ; in the skin of a lion ; The cinnamon peeler
De kattentafel
Angliĭskiĭ pat͡sient
Anglas ligonis
Tin roof
The man with seven toes
V shkure lʹva
The Long poem anthology
Fen li
Leonard Cohen
Divisadero
Leonard Cohen
The great tree
Antal Szerb
Antal Szerb (1901-1945)

translator, poet, literary critic, literary historian, literary scholar

  • Piarist Gymnasium of Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University

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PENDRAGON LEGEND; TRANS. BY LEN RIX
The Pendragon legend
Oliver VII
Third Tower Journeys In Italy
Journey by moonlight
Journey by Moonlight (Pushkin Paper)
A Pendragon-legenda
The Traveler
Queen's Necklace
The Pendragon Legend
Az angol irodalom kis tükre
Gondolatok a könyvtárban
Oliver
Journey by moonlight
Szerelem a palackban
Journey by Moonlight
La Leyenda de Los Pendragon
Le voyageur et le clair de lune
Száz vers
Budapesti kalauz marslakók számára
7. Olivér
Hétköznapok és csodák
Utas és holdvilág
A varázsló eltöri pálcáját
Reflections in the Library
Love in a Bottle and Other Stories
Oliver Vii (Pushkin Collection)
Gedanken in Der Bibliothek
Pendragon Soylencesi
Die Pendragon-Legende
Yolcu ve Ayisigi
Reise im Mondlicht
Marie Antoinette
Naplójegyzetek (1914-1943)
A királyné nyaklánca
Love in a bottle
Yolcu ve Ayışığı
The queen's necklace
Magyar irodalomtörténet
A világirodalom története
Dunya Yazin Tarihi
Gondolatok a könyvtárban
Szerb Antal válogatott levelei
The queen's necklace
Resa i månljus
A Martian's guide to Budapest
A királyné nyaklánca
El Viajero bajo el resplandor de la luna
Utas és holdvilág
A világirodalom története
A fehér mágus
Nagy emberek gyermekcipőben
VII [i.e. Hetedik] Olivér
A varàzsló eltöri pálcáját
מסע לאור ירח
Die Suche nach dem Wunder
The queen's necklace
Magyar irodalomtörténet
Kirsten Boie
Kirsten Boie (born 1950)

literary scholar

  • University of Hamburg, Margaretha-Rothe-Gymnasium

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Der Junge, der Gedanken lesen konnte
The Princess Plot (Scandia #1)
The Princess Trap (Scandia #2)
Mein Bilderbuchschatz
Moppel wär gern Romeo
Mit Jakob wurde alles anders
Paule ist ein Glücksgriff
Der Prinz und der Bottelknabe. Oder Erzähl mir vom Dow Jones.
Linnea schickt eine Flaschenpost.
Mein Bilderbuchschatz von Drachen, Bären und schönen Träumen
Der durch den Spiegel kommt
Ein Hund spricht doch nicht mit jedem
Lena hat nur Fußball im Kopf
Nicht Chicago, nicht hier.
Alhambra
King-Kong, das Geheimschwein
Geburtstag im Möwenweg.
Brecht, der unbekannte Erzähler
Kerle mieten oder Das Leben ändert sich stündlich
Jeder Tag ein Happening.
King-Kong, das Reiseschwein
Alles ganz wunderbar weihnachtlich.
Lena hat eine Tierkümmerbande
Geschichten zum Lachen, Träumen und Kuscheln
Eine wunderbare Liebe.
Mittwochs darf ich spielen.
Heinzler mögen saure Gurken
Krisensommer mit Ur- Otto.
Jede Menge Quatsch-Geschichten
Der kleine Ritter Trenk
Ich Ganz Cool
Vom Fuchs, der ein Reh sein wollte
Das große Familien-Vorlesebuch
Thabo
King Kong, das Zirkusschwein
Verflixt - ein Nix!
Linnea klaut Magnus die Zauberdose
Monis Jahr
Abenteuer im Möwenweg
Ein Stier im Wohnzimmer
Juli, der Finder
Lisas Geschichte, Jasims Geschichte
Jenny ist meistens schön friedlich
King-Kong, das Schulschwein
Linnea findet einen Waisenhund
Das Vorlesebuch für starke Familien
Man darf mit dem Glück nicht drängelig sein
Esslingers Erzählungen
Sophies schlimme Briefe
Kann doch jeder sein, wie er will
King-Kong, das Liebesschwein
Juli und das Monster
Albert geht schlafen
Abenteuer im Möwenweg 02 : Wir feiern ein Fest
Der kleine Ritter Trenk. Wie war das bei den Rittern?
Das Beste von Lena
Was war zuerst da?
Möwenweg Meine Lieblingsrezepte
Ein mittelschönes Leben
Man darf mit dem Glück nicht drängelig sein
Mit Kindern redet ja keiner
Das ausgleichskind.--
Schwarze Lügen
Mein Bilderbuchschatz
Vielleicht ist Lena in Lennart verliebt
Thabo, Detektiv und Gentleman 01. Der Nashorn-Fall
Abenteuer im Mowenweg. Wir bekommen Kaninchen
Leinen los, Seeräubermoses!
Was tun, wenn der Hamster den Löffel abgibt?
Abenteuer im Mowenweg/Wir wollen Laterne laufen
King-Kong, das Weihnachtsschwein
Heul doch nicht, du lebst ja noch
Krippenspiel mit Hund
Die Medlevinger
Chaossommer mit Ur-Otto
Nix wie weg!
Der kleine Ritter Trenk und der Große Gefährliche
Mein Bilderbuchschatz. Von Feen, Drachen und Großen Wünschen
Abenteuer im Möwenweg 01
Ein Tiger für Amerika
Ferien im Möwenweg
¡Qué miedo!
Nella- Propella. .
Mittwochs darf ich spielen
Mij vertellen ze nooit iets
Medlevinhery
Juli wird Erster
Lena findet Fan- Sein gut.
Er woont een leeuw in huis
Krippenspiel mit Hund. .
Linnea will Pflaster
Lena, superfan
Linnea macht Sachen. ( Ab 6 J.).
Ringel, Rangel, Rosen
Es gibt Dinge, die kann man nicht erzählen
SOMMERBY Bd. 2: Zurück in Sommerby
Lena zeltet Samstagnacht ( Ab 6 J.). (German Edition)
SOMMERBY Bd. 3: Für immer Sommerby
Paule ist ein Glücksgriff
ʻIm Yaʻaḳov ha-kol aḥeret
Skoglandija
Wat voorbij is, is geweest
Seeräubermoses
Ein Sommer in Sommerby