Stanley Appelbaum served for decades as Dover”s Editor in Chief until his retirement in 1996. He continues to work as a selector, compiler, editor, and translator of literature in a remarkable range of languages that includes Spanish, Italian, French, German, and Russian.
40 Ebooks by Stanley Appelbaum
Pedro Calderon de la Barca: Life Is a Dream/La Vida es Sueno
The most famous of all Calderon’s varied and romantic dramas, this seventeenth-century masterpiece by the great Spanish playwright explores the conflict between free will and predestination as it …
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€14.98
Federico Garcia Lorca: Book of Poems (Selection)/Libro de poemas (Seleccion)
The passionate life and violent death of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898–1936) retain an enduring fascination for readers around the world. Murdered by Nationalists at the outset of the Spanish …
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€14.98
Stanley Appelbaum: First French Reader
This excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world’s most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from …
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€16.20
Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm: Selected Folktales/Ausgewahlte Marchen
The 27 world-famous tales in this collection have inspired countless adaptations in many languages. Included are such favorites as "Hänsel and Gretel, " "The Brave Little Tailor, …
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€19.46
Charles Perrault: Fairy Tales in Verse and Prose/Les contes en vers et en prose
Based on the folkloric tales told by the widowed author to his motherless brood, this collection of traditional stories first appeared under Charles Perrault’s name in the 18th century. In the fine …
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€16.17
Anonymous: Lazarillo de Tormes (Dual-Language)
The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogue’s adventures and misadventures — full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and …
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€11.18
Stanley Appelbaum: Poem of My Cid (Selections) / Poema de Mio Cid (Seleccion)
Early in the eighth century, Berbers from Morocco invaded Spain and quickly gained control of almost the entire peninsula. During the centuries-long struggle to reconquer their country, Christian …
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€10.41
Stanley Appelbaum: First Italian Reader
Beginning students of Italian language and literature will welcome this bilingual anthology edited especially for their needs. Ranging from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries, it features the …
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€18.73
Stanley Appelbaum: Great German Poems of the Romantic Era
Lyric poetry blossomed in 19th-century Germany under the fertilizing influence of Romanticism with its focus on the primacy of the imagination, worship of nature and childhood, dreaminess and …
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€19.46
Colette: Cheri (Dual-Language)
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954), one of the most popular and best loved of modern French writers, became known simply as Colette when she married in 1893. Her husband, a Parisian …
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€16.15
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sorrows of Young Werther/Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Loosely based on Goethe’s personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman. Its Sturm und Drang style, …
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€20.83
Stanley Appelbaum: Spanish-American Short Stories / Cuentos hispanoamericanos
These seventeen stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles — from worldly sophistication to outright …
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€18.68
Dante: Divine Comedy Selected Cantos
Begun about 1307 and completed in 1321, Dante’s sublime poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is one of the world’s great works of literature. It comprises an extraordinarily vivid and imaginative …
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€16.07
Lope de Vega: Fuenteovejuna
From the golden age of the Spanish theater comes this captivating seventeenth-century drama of peasantry defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Based on a historical incident …
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€22.44
Hermann Hesse: Demian
"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry …
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€16.21
Franz Kafka & Rainer Maria Rilke: Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzahlungen von Kafka und Rilke
At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city’s natives are featured in this …
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€18.73
Antonio Machado: Fields of Castile/Campos de Castilla
Master poet Antonio Machado y Ruiz is widely regarded as one of the twentieth-century’s greatest Spanish writers. His collection of poems celebrating the region of Castile made him one of the primary …
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€16.16
Stendhal: Two Stories/Deux nouvelles
In writing these two ardently romantic and turbulent tales, Stendhal delved deep into old Italian narratives and into his own impassioned heart. “Vanina Vanini” and “L’abbesse de …
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€16.20
&Azorin& & Pio Baroja: Short Stories by the Generation of 1898/Cuentos de la Generacion de 1898
The generation of Spanish artists known as the 98ers, who renounced politics and sought their country’s true spirit within its landscape, culture, and character, are well represented here by thirteen …
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€22.33
Guy de Maupassant: My Uncle Jules and Other Stories/Mon oncle Jules et autres contes
Admired as "the greatest French short story writer, " and emulated by Somerset Maugham and O. Henry, Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was a master of plot construction and a keen recorder of …
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€16.21
Stanley Appelbaum: Spanish Stories of the Late Nineteenth Century
These eleven tales are by four outstanding nineteenth-century authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include ‘El Hechicero’ (The Sorcerer), …
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€13.99
Blaise Pascal: Selected "Pensees" and Provincial Letters/Pensees et Provinciales choisies
Intended to convert religiously indifferent readers to Christianity, Pascal’s Pensees were published posthumously to wide and ongoing acclaim. This selection of highlights from the Pensees focuses on …
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€19.28
Colette: Vagabond
From the author of Gigi comes this tale of 33-year-old Renée Néré, recently divorced and seeking a new life as a vaudeville performer. Maxime, a wealthy playboy, tempts her from the …
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€9.92
Stanley Appelbaum: Spanish Stories of the Romantic Era /Cuentos españoles del Romanticismo
These twelve classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the 1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic era, they remain …
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€12.99
Stanley Appelbaum: Mexican Short Stories / Cuentos mexicanos
Greatly influenced by Europe’s nineteenth-century literary trends, Mexico’s writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of …
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€18.68
Giovanni Verga: Sicilian Stories
With his novels, short stories, and plays, Giovanni Verga (1840–1922) achieved renown in the Italian verismo (realist) school of writing. This outstanding selection of 12 short stories — …
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€22.26
Ruben Dario: Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesias
One of the most important Latin-American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nicaraguan poet and essayist Rubén Darío (the pen name of Félix Rubén …
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€23.98
Stanley Appelbaum: Great French Tales of Fantasy/Contes fantastiques celebres
These six riveting fantasy classics from the golden age of the French short story will keep you glued to your chair. Drawn from the genre’s outstanding nineteenth-century writers, they range from the …
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€14.99
Stanley Appelbaum: Second Spanish Reader
Geared toward advanced beginners, this dual-language volume offers the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the matching Spanish text. It introduces such authors as …
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€11.18
Dante Alighieri: New Life/La Vita Nuova
An exquisite medley of lyrical verse and poetic prose, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) ranks among the supreme revelations in the literature of love. Its allegorical view of the soul’s crisis and growth …
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€8.74
Stanley Appelbaum: Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)
This volume brings together six outstanding French tales, each by a different author, originally published between 1829 and 1886. Representing a variety of 10th-century literary trends (Romanticism, …
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€9.91
Stanley Appelbaum: The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893
Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s discovery of America, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggreg …
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€13.99
Stanley Appelbaum: Complete "Masters of the Poster"
Les Maîtres de l’Affiche (The Masters of the Poster) is one of the most prestigious and influential art publications in history. Its 256 color plates have preserved for each succeeding …
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€47.95
Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Winckelmann’s Images from the Ancient World
Compiled by the father of modern art history, this landmark 1767 publication boasts more than 200 outstanding engravings of ancient monuments. Johann Joachim Winckelmann, an eighteenth-century …
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€29.98
Stanley Appelbaum: Medieval Tales and Stories
Ranging from half-page morality tales to hilarious bawdy stories several pages long, these centuries-old narratives offer revealing glimpses into many elements of medieval culture. Witchcraft, magic, …
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€11.96
Thomas Mann: Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog
Written in 1912, Death in Venice is Thomas Mann’s best-known novella — a haunting, elegiac masterpiece in which the main character, Gustav Aschenbach, is a successful and much-revered author. …
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€16.20
Stanley Appelbaum & James Camner: Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs
Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers — the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters’ classic triumphs …
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€20.79
Queen of Navarre Marguerite: Heptameron
Like the exuberant storytellers of Boccaccio’s Decameron and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the ten men and women who narrate the tales of The Heptameron offer captivating glimpses of a vanished world. …
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€11.90
Richard Wurts: New York World’s Fair, 1939/1940
The New York World’s Fair 1939/1940 may not have been the greatest of all world’s fairs, but it is probably the most fondly remembered of all of them, a spectacle that no one who was there has …
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€26.88
Stanley Appelbaum: Five Great German Short Stories
In the nineteenth century, in the hands of such writers as Heinrich von Kleist and E. T. A. Hoffmann, the short story established itself as one of the most expressive and characteristic genres in …
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€16.51
