Manheim, Ralph 1907-1992

Overview

Works:	808 works in 2,785 publications in 3 languages and 74,276 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction History Juvenile works Fairy tales War fiction Political fiction Fantasy fiction Novels Christmas fiction Historical fiction
Roles:	Translator, Editor, Creator, Author, Other, Illustrator, Author of introduction, tra, Contributor, Adapter
Classifications:	PT2613.R338, 833.914

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Ralph Manheim

The ants by Wilhelm Goetsch( Book )
Bertolt Brecht poems 1913-1956 by John Willett( Book )
Dwight Macdonald papers by Dwight Macdonald( )
Elizabeth Mayer and Wolfgang Sauerländer papers by Elizabeth Mayer( Visual )
William McGuire papers by William McGuire( )

Helen and Kurt Wolff papers by Helen Wolff( Visual )
A life in translation by Ralph Manheim( Recording )

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Most widely held works by Ralph Manheim

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler( Book )

59 editions published between 1943 and 2018 in 3 languages and held by 3,484 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Tells the story of Hitler's life and his social and political philosophy

Nutcracker by E. T. A Hoffmann( Book )

13 editions published between 1984 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,566 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A little girl receives an enchanted nutcracker from her godfather and after many adventures, the nutcracker becomes a handsome prince

The tin drum by Günter Grass( Book )

58 editions published between 1959 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic

Dear Mili : an old tale by Wilhelm Grimm( Book )

14 editions published between 1988 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,175 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In order to save her daughter from a terrible war, the mother sends her into the forest telling her to return in three days. She meets St. Joseph who cares for her for three days, which in reality is thirty years

The neverending story by Michael Ende( Book )

41 editions published between 1979 and 2014 in English and German and held by 1,936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill

Der Fuehrer : Hitler's rise to power by Konrad Heiden( Book )

24 editions published between 1944 and 1969 in 3 languages and held by 1,789 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Describes events leading up to Hitler's rise to power

An introduction to metaphysics by Martin Heidegger( Book )

22 editions published between 1959 and 2005 in 3 languages and held by 1,710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Introduction to Metaphysics includes a reinterpretation of Greek thought, a vision of Western history, and a glimpse of the reasons behind Heidegger's support of the Nazi Party in the 1930s. Heidegger tries to reawaken the "question of Being" by challenging some of the most enduring prejudices embedded in Western philosophy and in our everyday practices and language. Furthermore, be relates this question to the insights of Greek tragedy into the human condition and to the political and cultural crises of modernity." "This new translation makes this work more accessible than ever before. It combines smoothness with accuracy and provides conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally. There are also extensive notes, a German-English glossary, and an introduction that discusses the history of the text, its basic themes, and its place in Heidegger's oeuvre."--Jacket

Dog years by Günter Grass( Book )

36 editions published between 1963 and 2017 in English and German and held by 1,649 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A novel in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two friends from the prewar years in Germany through an apocalyptic period and its startling aftermath

The flounder by Günter Grass( Book )

22 editions published between 1977 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 1,597 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Based loosely on Grimm's The Fisherman and his Wife, this triumphant blend of folk tale and contemporary story takes place over the course of nine months, during which the wife of the narrator becomes pregnant and is regaled with tales of the various cooks the fisherman has met throughout his life. The emerging themes of the novel expose the periods when men made history and women's contributions went largely, in some cases gravely, unrecognized. Inventive, imaginitive and irreverent, this humorous, fundamentally brilliant novel highlights the value of modern-day myth and timeless legend

Cat and mouse by Günter Grass( Book )

33 editions published between 1961 and 2000 in English and German and held by 1,524 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"On the publication of his first novel, The Tin Drum, Günter Grass was acclaimed internationally as the most imaginative and powerful novelist to come out of postwar Germany. Cat and Mouse has the same setting that The Tin Drum made famous: Danzig and its petty bourgeoisie. But the art form is deliberately different. Brief and compact, it focuses on the extraordinary fate and person of one hero, Joachim Mahlke, fourteen years old when the story starts. Mahlke is set apart from his fellows by an unusual excrescence of cartilage, a huge Adam's apple, sign and symbol of precocious virility, at once embarrassing and stimulating to its bearer. When a classmate sics a cat on Mahlke's "mouse," he unwittingly launches him on a hero's career. In order to compensate for his mouse, Mahlke turns himself into an athlete and ace diver who brings up from a half-submerged ship all kinds of hardware to string around his neck. He becomes "The Great Mahlke," first to his classmates and later to the nation. Mahlke's mentors, however, refuse to be impressed. For the cat watching him, ready to pounce, is a society of petty men. Not even by gaining his country's highest honor, the Order of Merit, the most dazzling piece of hardware to cover his protuberance, does Mahlke succeed in conciliating his enemies. Mahlke is different, Mahlke is doomed. With ferocious virtuosity, Gunter Grass maps the local and mental circumstances of Mahlke's dramatic and pathetic struggle, compelling the reader's participation and belief."--Jacket

Local anaesthetic by Günter Grass( Book )

15 editions published between 1969 and 1989 in English and held by 1,455 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Starusch, a 40 year old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto the screen his past and present with the fluidity and visual quality of the movies. A satirical portrait of social confusions

Stories of five decades by Hermann Hesse( Book )

10 editions published between 1972 and 1977 in English and held by 1,222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Twenty-three stories arranged in chronological order that are primarily concerned with the authors own secret

The rat by Günter Grass( Book )

11 editions published between 1987 and 1989 in 3 languages and held by 1,218 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A female rat engages the narrator in a series of dialogues-convincingly demonstrating to him that the rats will inherit a devastated earth. Dreams alternate with reality in this story within a story within a story

Shakespeare's stage by A. M Nagler( Book )

14 editions published between 1958 and 1981 in English and held by 1,175 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The philosophy of symbolic forms by Ernst Cassirer( Book )

in English and held by 1,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The symbolic form has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language, myth, religion, art, and science- the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience

Grimms' tales for young and old by Jacob Grimm( Book )

9 editions published between 1977 and 1983 in English and held by 1,145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A new and modern translation of the entire collection of folk and fairy tales written by the Brothers Grimm

The threepenny opera by Kurt Weill( Book )

48 editions published between 1928 and 2015 in English and held by 1,143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy ending- Bertolt Brecht's revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the love story of Polly Peachum and "Mack the Knife" Macheath, the play satirizes the bourgeois of the Weimar Republic, revealing a society at the height of decadence and on the verge of chaos. Complemented with music by Kurt Weill, it was one of the earliest and most successful attempts to introduce jazz into the theater, and the song "Mack the Knife" became one of the most popular and widely recorded songs of the twentieth century."--Book cover

Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline( Book )

15 editions published between 1934 and 2012 in English and held by 1,117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A nihilistic petit-bougeois named Bardamu opens his medical practice in the slums of suburban Paris

Poems, 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht( Book )

35 editions published between 1976 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,104 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From the diary of a snail by Günter Grass( Book )

12 editions published between 1973 and 2000 in 3 languages and held by 1,086 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with Willie Brandt

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