Mike Mitchell is an award-winning translator of French and German who has been active as a translator for over thirty years. He is the recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations of German works published in Britain, has won the British Comparative Literature Association translation competition three times, and has been shortlisted for many awards including the French-American Translation Prize, the Weidenfeld prize, the Aristeion prize, the Kurt Wolff prize, and the Crime Writers » Association Gold Dagger. In 2012 the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture awarded him a lifetime achievement award as a translator of literary works. He lives in Scotland.
73 Ebooks par Mike Mitchell
Sarah Kaminsky & Mike Mitchell: Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life
The gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter. Subject of The New York Times documentary ‘The Forger, ‘; w …
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Erich Hackl: Three Tearless Histories
Stirring, poignant stories humanize great historical tragedies with interviews and accounts of individuals affected by the clashes of communism and fascism. “Powerful inquiries spurred by photos—hist …
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Maurice Rajsfus: Operation Yellow Star / Black Thursday
Two books by Maurice Rajsfus, a French activist and former investigative journalist for Le Monde, who shares his research and personal recollections in order to shed new light on France’s role in the …
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Friedrich Glauser: The Chinaman
“After reading Friedrich Glauser’s dark tour de force In Matto’s Realm, it’s easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award is dubbed ‘The Glauser.’”—The Washington Post Praise fo …
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Petra Hammesfahr: The Lie
“…One shares Susanne’s belief that she must try to carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the reader, peering over Susanne’s shoulder at all the traps, turning the pages of this re …
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Johann Grimmelshausen: Life of Courage: the notorious whore, thief and vagabond
A companion volume to Simplicissimus: the story of younggirl named Courage, caught up in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, who survives, even prospers, by the use of her native cunning and s …
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Gustav Meyrink & Mike Mitchell: The Green Face
The quest for the Wandering Jew in a fin-de-siecle Amsterdam. ‘Of the volumes available to the English public, The Green Face, first published in 1916, is the most enjoyable. In an Amsterdam that ver …
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Johann Grimmelshausen: Simplicissimus
It is a violent and often all-too-realistic picaresque, set in war-torn Europe during the 17th-century Thirty Years War. Das E-Book Simplicissimus wird angeboten von Dedalus und wurde mit folgenden B …
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Georges Rodenbach: Bruges-la-Morte
Bruges-la-Morte, which first appeared in 1892, concerns the fate of Hugues Viane, a widower who has turned to the melancholy, decaying city of Bruges as the ideal location in which to mourn his wife …
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Gustav Meyrink: Walpurgisnacht
Comic, fantastic and grotesque, Walpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the …
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Jean-Marie Blas de Robles: Where Tigers Are At Home
Award-winning French novel set in Brazil including the biography of Kircher Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Mike Mitchell: The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy; 1890-2000
Ever since the fin de siecle Austrian literature has been fertile ground for fantasy in the widest sense and the genre was taken up again by new generations after the Second World War. The Dedalus Bo …
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Gustav Meyrink & Mike Mitchell: The Angel of the West Window
Occult historical novel about the Elizabethan magus John Dee. A complex and ambitious novel which centres on the life of the Elizabethan magus, John Dee, in England, Poland and Prague, as it intertwi …
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Ray Furness: The Dedalus Book of German Decadence
A collection of fin-de-siecle German and Austrian decadence writing. Das E-Book The Dedalus Book of German Decadence wird angeboten von Dedalus und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Gustav Meyrink: The White Dominican
A spirtual journey to join the living chain that stretches to infinity Das E-Book The White Dominican wird angeboten von Dedalus und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Johann von Goethe: The German Refugees
The German refugees amuse themselves by telling stories.Goethe’s collection of stories (1795) is modelled on the ‘Decameron’. A family of German nobles have been forced from their home on the left ba …
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Georges Rodenbach & Mike Mitchell: The Bells of Bruges
Shortlisted for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for 2008. The Bells of Bruges is a study of obsessive love which is steeped in the melancholy beauty of Bruges. There are three loves in the li …
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Gustav Meyrink & Mike Mitchell: The Dedalus Meyrink Reader
An anthology of Meyrink’ s work, novels, short stories & essays. Gustav Meyrink is one of the most important and interesting authors of early 20th-century German Literature. To establish his reputati …
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Mike Mitchell: Vivo; The Life of Gustav Meyrink
The first English-language biography of the novelist and magus. Stories collected round Gustav Meyrink, so that it is often difficult to distinguish fact from fiction. Vivo: The Life of Gustav Meyrin …
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Georges Rodenbach: Hans Cadzand’s Vocation & Other Stories
A mother’s struggle to stop her son becoming a priest & leaving her. Hans Cadzand’s father dies when he is an infant and he becomes the centre of his mother’s life. As he grows up from a pretty child …
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Pascal Bruckner: My Little Husband
Leon shrinks every time he fathers a child with his Amazonian wife until he is the size of a thimble and at the mercy of his own children and the cat. …
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Johann Grimmelshausen: Tearaway
The adventures of Tearaway and mother Courage in the Thirty Years War. ‘The author’, the aging Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearway (a character from Simplicissimus) happen to meet in a vill …
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Pascal Bruckner: A Dutiful Son
Pascal Bruckner's memoir reads like a novel, a Bildungsroman which charts his journey from pious Catholic child to leading philosopher and writer on French culture. The key figure in Bruckner&ap …
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Stephanie Hochet: Ink in the Blood
The anonymous narrator of Ink in the Blood has long been fascinated by tattoos, by the symbols and emblems people choose, and by the physical aspect, even pain, of a needle injecting ink under the sk …
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Gustav Meyrink: The Golem
A remarkable work of horror, half-way between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Das E-Book The Golem wird angeboten von Dedalus und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: fiction, horror, Prague ghetto, go …
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Karen Duve: The Prepper Room
The year is 2031 and all the dire predictions of environmentalists are coming true: extreme weather bringing storms, floods and intense heat; and the genetically modified 'killer rape' is r …
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Jean-Pierre Ohl: The Devil’s Road
While draining a pond during work for the construction of the Stockton to Darlington Railway George Stephenson’s workers discover a female corpse with a dagger stuck between her ribs—could it be that …
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Johann Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: The Continuation of Simplicissimus
The Continuation is Grimmelshausen's 'pilgrim's progress', the concluding chapter in one of the greatest and most acclaimed German novels. It combines fantastic episodes with a re …
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Franz Kafka: Trial
‘Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arr …
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Franz Kafka: Trial
‘Someone must have been telling tales about Josef K. for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.’A successful professional man wakes up one morning to find himself under arr …
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Robert Musil: Confusions of Young Torless
‘between the life we live and the life we feel…there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate’Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, Th …
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Robert Musil: Confusions of Young Torless
‘between the life we live and the life we feel…there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate’Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, Th …
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Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
‘I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.’Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He take …
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Theodor Fontane: Effi Briest
‘I loathe what I did, but what I loathe even more is your virtue.’Seventeen-year-old Effi Briest is steered by her parents into marriage with an ambitious bureaucrat, twenty years her senior. He take …
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Mike Mitchell: Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child
Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child is a story of obsessive passion set in Podolia, now part of the Ukraine but in the nineteenth century a backward, multi-racial corner of Europe where the Russian a …
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Petra Hammesfahr: The Lie
‘…One shares Susanne's belief that she must try to carry the deception off. Whether she will succeed keeps the reader, peering over Susanne's shoulder at all the traps, turning the pages …
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Friedrich Glauser: Fever
Praise for Friedrich Glauser’s other Sergeant Studer novels: Thumbprint is a fine example of the craft of detective writing in a period which fans will regard as the golden age of crime fiction.’Th …
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Friedrich Glauser: The Chinaman
‘After reading Friedrich Glauser's dark tour de force In Matto's Realm, it's easy to see why the German equivalent of the Edgar Allan Poe Award is dubbed ‘The Glauser. »—The Washington …
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Hansjörg Schneider: The Basel Killings
STARRED REVIEW ‘Swiss author Schneider’s excellent first mystery and series launch…gripping, plausible debut bodes well for future entries.’ Publishers Weekly———- It is the end of October, th …
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Hansjorg Schneider: The Basel Killings
It’s the end of October, but it could be December. It is just after midnight when Basel Police Inspector Hunkeler, on his way home and slightly the worse for wear, approaches old man Hardy sitting on …
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Mike Mitchell: AQA GCSE (9-1) Citizenship Studies Second Edition
Encourage students to take an active role in citizenship with fully updated content that will allow them to understand the key issues and concepts they need to know using clear, detailed explanations …
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Hansjörg Schneider: Silver Pebbles
A hunt for drug gang diamonds is keeping Basel Inspector Hunkeler on tenterhooks. Basel, nestled at the border of Switzerland with Germany and France, has been hammered by a huge snowstorm, cars and …
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Hansjoerg Schneider: Silver Pebbles
A hunt for drug gang diamonds is keeping Basel Inspector Hunkeler on tenterhooks. The diamonds are found by a Turkish sewer worker who is determined to keep his lucky find. For the drug courier, find …
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Mike Mitchell: My Revision Notes: AQA GCSE (9-1) Citizenship Studies Third Edition
Target exam success with My Revision Notes. Our updated approach to revision will help you learn, practise and apply your skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical …
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Gustav Meyrink: The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink Volume 2 (The Master and other stories)Dedalus European Classics
This collection contains short stories translated for the first time as well as stories featured in Dedalus anthologies. Together with volume 1 they comprise the most comprehensive collection of Meyr …
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Asmaa Alghoul & Sélim Nassib: A Rebel in Gaza
“Gaza has always been rebellious… stubborn, addictive. I’m her daughter, and I look like her.” Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the fac …
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Asmaa Alghoul & Selim Nassib: Rebel in Gaza
Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa Alghoul has continue …
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Mike Mitchell: Anxiety How To Stop Feeling Nervous And More Comfortable In Public
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Mike Mitchell: Social Anxiety VS Shyness Learn The Difference Between Social Anxiety And Shyness
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Mike Mitchell: Positive Affirmations: How To Use Positive Affirmations To Develop Self Confidence
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Mike Mitchell: Negative People The Ultimate Guide On Dealing With Difficult People
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