Kurt Wolff _ A Portrait in Essays & Letters

Wolff, Kurt; Ermath, Michael (ed)

ISBN 10: 0226905519 / ISBN 13: 9780226905518

Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991

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blue cloth spine, blue papered boards, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 223 pp dj lightly worn and has a small tear on the top edge Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kurt Wolff _ A Portrait in Essays & Letters
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226905519
• ISBN 13: 9780226905518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

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Synopsis

Kurt Wolff (1887-1963) was a singular presence in the literary world of the twentieth century, a cultural force shaping modern literature itself and pioneering significant changes in publishing. During an intense, active career that spanned two continents and five decades, Wolff launched seven publishing houses and nurtured an extraordinary array of writers, among them Franz Kafka, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Boris Pasternak, Günter Grass, Robert Musil, Paul Valéry, Julian Green, Lampedusa, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

About the Authors

Michael Ermarth is professor of history at Dartmouth College.  

Deborah Lucas Schneider is a prolific translator whose other projects have included Caligula: A Biography,by Aloys Winterling, and Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science, by Hans Belting.