The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll

by Heinrich Boll
The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161219012X
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The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form. Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.

The Stories of Heinrich Böll

by Heinrich Böll
The Stories of Heinrich Böll
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810112070
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Contains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.

What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books

by Heinrich Böll
What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780810112087
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In 1981, Heinrich Boll returned to the streets of his childhood in this remarkable collection of nonfiction. This volume captures the musings of a mature Boll as he looks back with fondness and with anger on his formative years: as a student who avoided school but lived for his education on the street; and as a young man forced to grapple with the moral horror that was Hitler. What's to Become of the Boy - superbly translated by Leila Vennewitz - provides uncommon insight into Boll's maturation as an author and as a man.

Billiards at Half-past Nine

by Heinrich Böll
Billiards at Half-past Nine
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140187243
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Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi

Children are Civilians Too

by Heinrich Böll
Children are Civilians Too
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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"These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly visiting bars and brothels; stories of children rendered with a simplicity that belies their emotional impact; and stark vignettes of people struggling to re-make their lives against the ruined landscape of war-devastated towns and villages. Representing Boll's youthful beginnings, this collection introduces the themes that inform his life-long literary accomplishments and the wit, intelligence, and lyricism that made Boll one of contemporary Europe's most acclaimed writers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll

by Heinrich Boll
The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2011-12-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1612190022
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The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form. Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.

The Mad Dog

by Heinrich Boll
The Mad Dog
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312195496
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In this collection of stories, written between 1938 and 1945, Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) recalls Erich Maria Remarque in his ability to depict war and its psychological aftermath. As in The Clown or Billiards at Half-Past Nine, the stories in The Mad Dog demonstrate Böll's early and continuing commitment to certain basic themes: the religious impulse toward meaning in the midst of human chaos, the hope love offers to those for whom all else seems lost, and the enduring possibility of an ethical core of action in a maelstrom of personal and political corruption.

The Safety Net

by Heinrich Böll
The Safety Net
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193555431X
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At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.