Living in Flemington, New Jersey, in 1935, twelve-year-old Katie Leigh Flynn describes, in a series of poems, the effect on her small town of the ongoing trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby son.
Narrates the experiences and reactions of a respectable bank functionary after his abrupt arrest on an undisclosed charge Introduction by George Steiner; Translation by Willa and Edwin Muir
This volume contains the great works of fiction as well as the complete diaries and thus gives the reader considrable insight into the mind of this strange and powerful man.
This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German.
From its gripping first sentence onward, this novel exemplifies the term "Kafkaesque." Its darkly humorous narrative recounts a bank clerk's entrapment in a bureaucratic maze, based on an undisclosed charge.
"A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him.
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Calling upon personal testimony and documents released under the Freedom of Information Act, chronicles the life of Henry Kissinger, linking him to events including the war in Indochina and genocide in East Timor.
Imagine you are Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of murdering the son of the most famous man in America.
A lawyer ready to die takes one final case...the trial of his life.
137 Johnson would be telling investigators: These facts and those which follow are taken, except where otherwise specified, from Edgar W. Butler et al., Anatomy of the McMartin Child Molestation Case (Lanham, Md., 2001), and Paul Eberle ...