“One of the major strengths [of Ariadne Press] has been its ability to attract first-rate scholars and translators … One outstanding example of this talent is Michael Mitchell …” — Francis Michael Sharp, Austria Kultur
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| German classics | Modern German fiction |
| German plays | German biography |
| German-language history, art and thought | German travel |
| French fiction |
German classics |
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| Karl Emil Franzos
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Leib Weihnachtskuchen and his Child 2005, (UK) Ascog Press ISBN 0-9545989-0-3 / (US) Ariadne ISBN 1-57241-137-6 Click here to see a sample. |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The German Refugees 2006, Dedalus ISBN 1-903517-44-3 Click here to see a sample. |
| Grimmelshausen |
The Adventures of Simplicissimus(1669) Dedalus, 1999 ISBN 1-873982-78-X Click here to see a sample. See also Prizes and awards. The Life of Courage (1670) Dedalus, 2001 ISBN 1-873982-56-9 Tearaway(1670) Dedalus, 2003 ISBN 1-903517-18-4 Click here to see a sample. |
| Franz Kafka | The Trial with introduction and notes by Ritchie Robertson, OUP, Oxford World's Classics, 2009 ISBN 9780199238293 Click here to see a sample. |
| Oskar Kokoschka | Stories from my life (1956/1974), Ariadne, 1998 (with E. Wilkins, E. Kaiser) ISBN 1-57241-062-0 Click here to see a sample. Plays and Poems, Ariadne, 2000 ISBN 1-57241-041-8 |
| Alfred Kubin | The Other Side (1909) Dedalus, 2000 ISBN 1-873982-69-0
“ … this superb new translation …” — Keiron Pinn, Time Out Click here to see a sample. |
| Paul Leppin | The Road to Darkness Dedalus, 1997 ISBN 1-873982-33-X containing Click here to see a sample. |
| Gustav Meyrink | The Angel of the West Window (1927), Dedalus, 1992 ISBN (UK) 0-946626-65-0, (US) 0-929497-44-9 The Green Face (1916), Dedalus/Ariadne, 1992 ISBN (UK) 0-946626-92-8, (US) 0-929497-37-6 Click here to see a sample. Walpurgisnacht (1917), Dedalus/Ariadne, 1993 ISBN (UK) 1-873982-50-X, (US) 0-929497-71-6 Click here to see a sample. The White Dominican (1921), Dedalus/Ariadne, 1994 ISBN (UK) 1-873982-55-0, (US) 0-929497-88-0 Click here to see a sample. The Golem (1915), Dedalus/Ariadne, 1995
ISBN 1-873982-91-7 “A new and quite superb translation” — Chris Gilmore, Interzone Click here to see a sample. See also Prizes and awards. The Dedalus Meyrink Reader, Dedalus, 2010 ISBN 978 1 903517 85 7 an anthology of newly translated stories and articles by Meyrink together with extracts from previously published translations Click here to see a sample. |
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Modern German fiction |
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| Eugen Egner | Androids from Milk Dedalus, 2001
ISBN 1-903517-02-8-064-7 Click here to see a sample. |
| Max Frisch | An Answer from the Silence: a story from the mountains (1937) Seagull Books, 2011
ISBN 13 978 9064 792 7 Click here to see a sample. |
| Friedrich Glauser
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Thumbprint (1936) Bitter Lemon Press, 2004 ISBN 1-904738-00-1 Click here to see a sample. In Matto's Realm (1936) Bitter Lemon Press, 2005 ISBN 1-904738-06-0 Click here to see a sample. See also Prizes and awards. Fever (1937) Bitter Lemon Press, 2006 ISBN 1-904738-14-1 Click here to see a sample. The Spoke (1937) Bitter Lemon Press, 2008 ISBN 978-1-904738-27-5 Click here to see a sample. The Chinaman (1938) Bitter Lemon Press, 2007 ISBN 978-1-904738-21-3 Click here to see a sample. |
| Petra Himmesfahr | The Lie (2003),Bitter Lemon Press, 2009 ISBN 9781904738428 “Hammesfahr makes this story, preposterous in outline, work with great success, largely through the quality of her writing which, in Mike Mitchell's translation, tells a compelling tale.”— Jane Jakeman, The Independent Click here to see a sample. |
| Florian Kalbeck | The House of the Linsky Sisters (1990) Ariadne, 1996 ISBN 1-57241-026-4 Click here to see a sample. His Pencil's Sharp Strokes / Mit seines Stiftes Spitze (bilingual edition) Mandelbaum, Vienna, 2004 ISBN 3-85476-126-0 Click here to see a sample. |
| Anna Kim | Frozen Time (2008) Ariadne, 2010 ISBN 9781572411722 Click here to see a sample. |
| Helmut Krausser | The Great Bagarozy (1997), Dedalus, 1998 ISBN 1-873982-04-6 Click here to see a sample. The Babel Denotation (1999), ARD, 1999 Click here to see a sample. The Little Gardens of Maestro Puccini, film script; for Rowohlt Medien, 1999 Click here to see a sample. Eros (2006), Europa Editions, New York, 2008 ISBN 978-1-933372-58-7 Click here to see a sample. |
| Matthias Mander | The Cassowary (1979), Ariadne, 1994 ISBN 0-929497-73-2
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| Andreas Okopenko | Child Nazi (1999),Ariadne, 2003 ISBN 1-57241-116-3 “Michael Mitchell has succeeded brilliantly with Okopenko's often lyrical text”— David Scrase, Modern Austrian Literature Click here to see a sample. |
| Markus Orths | The Staff Room (2003), Dedalus, 2008 ISBN 978-1-903517-55-0
“For the last 25 years Dedalus — the withdrawal of Arts Council funding notwithstanding — has made an important contribution to British culture by publishing European fiction in translation. They love writers who deal in what they call distorted reality — the unusual, bizarre and surreal — such as this wonderful satire, translated from German by Mike Mitchell, which is as funny as it is savage.”— David Sinclair, Tribune Click here to see a sample. |
| Martin Prinz | On the Run (2002), Dedalus, 2005 ISBN 1-903517-36-2
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| Herbert Rosendorfer | The Architect of Ruins (1969), Dedalus, 1992 ISBN (UK) 0-946626-91-X, (US) 0-7818-0001-3 Click here to see a sample. See also Prizes and awards. Stephanie (1977), Dedalus, 1995 ISBN 1-873982-17-8 See also Prizes and awards. Letters Back to Ancient China (1983), Dedalus, 1997 ISBN 1-873982-97-6 Click here to see a sample. See also Prizes and awards. Grand Solo for Anton (1976), Dedalus, 2006 ISBN 1-903517-45-1 Click here to see a sample. German for Gastarbeiter in The London Magazine, October/November 1993 Click here to see a sample. |
| Ralf Rothmann | Fire Doesn't Burn, Seagull Books, 2012 ISBN 13-978-0-8574-2-047-3 Click here to see a sample. |
| Franz Rottensteiner (editor) | The Black Mirror & Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Germany & Austria (1871–2008), with introduction and notes, Wesleyan University Press, 2008 ISBN 978-0-8195-6830-4 hardback; 978-0-8195-6831-1 paperback
“Mitchell seems to have relatively little prior experience with SF, but he persuasively captures the tone of the different eras without homogenizing the language into some contemporary version of SF-speak…”— Gary K. Wolfe, Locus Click here to see a sample. |
| Frank Schätzing | Death and the Devil (1999), William Morrow, 2007 ISBN 978-0-06-134948-5 Click here to see a sample. |
| György Sebestyén | The Works of Solitude (1986), Ariadne, 1991 ISBN 0-929497-21-X A Man too White, Ariadne, 1993 ISBN 0-929497-27-9 Click here to see a sample. |
| Hermann Ungar | The Maimed (1928), Dedalus, 2002 ISBN 1903517109 “Ungar's understated prose (perfectly captured by veteran translator Mitchell)” — Kirkus Reviews Click here to see a sample. The Class (1927), Dedalus, 2004 ISBN 1903517192 Click here to see a sample. |
| Josef Winkler | The Serf (1987), Ariadne, 1997 ISBN 1-57421-021-3
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German plays |
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| Thomas Bernhard | Over all the Mountain Tops , Ariadne, 2004 ISBN 1-57241-128-7
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| Peter Handke | Till Day You Do Part: A Question of light , Seagull Books, London, New York, Calcutta, 2010 ISBN 9781906497736
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| Ödön von Horváth | Tales from the Vienna Woods & Other Plays (1931-1933) Ariadne, 2002 ISBN 1-57241-108-2
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| Werner Schwab | An Anthology of Plays Ariadne, 2000 ISBN 1-57241-064-7 containing
First Ladies was produced at the Trap Door Theatre Chicago in March 2011. “…First Ladies is a laugh-out-loud, sickening, gasp-inducing, ridiculous, revelatory, hypnotic masterpiece. It is marvelous and macabre. It is splendid and sordid. It is clever and carnal. It is vicarious, vicious and vile. It is glorious and gruesome. It is preposterous and pathetic. It is lovely and lethal. It is ravaging and resplendent. It is Trap Door at its most morbidly magnificent and it is a once in a lifetime theatrical treasure. Fortunately for you, this production has just opened so you can see it without the need of a time machine. Don't wait until it is too late.” —Venus Zarris in Chicago Stage Review OVERWEIGHT was produced at the Trap Door Theatre Chicago in October/November 2011. “With hilarious chill, Werner Schwab's OVERWEIGHT, unimportant: MISSHAPE plunges into the dark, unknowable depths of human longing, Never before has degradation, perverse loneliness, and mankind's toxic ego been so funny. Steppenwolf member Yasen Prankov directs the U.S. premiere.” The Round was produced at the New Stage Theatre Company, New York, November/December 2007. “The … production of Schwab's The Round of Pleasure is a Viennese treat, a rich dessert from Mittel Europa that breaks all the artificially imposed rules of political correctness … Round has no social conscience, while also having as complete a picture of society's moral hypocrisies and ethical duplicities as one can get in an hour and a half.” — Larry Litt in The New York Theatre Wire, 2007 Click here to see a sample. |
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German biography |
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| Ingeborg Bachmann | War Diary Seagull Books, 2011 ISBN 9780857420084
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| Erwin Blumenfeld | (with Brian Murdoch) Eye to I: the Autobiography of a Photographer (1976) Thames & Hudson, 1999 ISBN 0-500-01907-X
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| Katrin Himmler | The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History (2005), Macmillan, 2007 ISBN 978-0-230-52907-6 hardback; 978-0-330-44814-7 paperback (2008)
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| Hans A. Neunzig | Brahms (1973), Haus Publishing 2003 ISBN 0-904341-17-9 |
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German-language history, art and thought |
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| Arthur Brühlmeier | Head, Heart and Hand: Education in the Spirit of Pestalozzi Sophia Books, 2010 ISBN 9781906924997 Click here to see a sample. |
| Adolf Loos | Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays Ariadne, 1998 ISBN 1-57241-046-9 “Loos's essays, well translated into English for the first time by Michael Mitchell [are] the unquestioned gem of this or any publishing season” — Robert Dassanowsky, American Book Review Click here to see a sample. On Architecture Ariadne, 2002 ISBN 1-57241-098-1 Click here to see a sample. |
| Heinz Politzer | Freud & Tragedy Ariadne, 2006 ISBN 1-57241-146-5 |
| Leopold Schwarzschild | Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929-1939, editor Andreas Wesemann, I.B. Tauris (2010) ISBN 9781848852891 A collection of articles from Das Tage-Buch and Das Neue Tage-Buch Click here to see a sample. |
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German travel |
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| Roland Hill | Scotland Tauris Parke, 2002
with photographs by Ulrich Müller
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French fiction |
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| Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès | Where Tigers are at Home Dedalus, 2011 ISBN (hardback) 9781907650161 ISBN (e-book) 9781907650581
“… Long in the making, and rejected by thirty-five publishers, this clever, exuberant philosophical novel, the winner of three major French prizes, now appears in a splendidly complicit, fluent, vivid translation by Mike Mitchell…” David Coward, Times Literary Supplement 27.07.12 Click here to see a sample. |
| Mercedes Deambrosis | Milagrosa Dedalus, 2002 ISBN 190351701X
Click here to see a sample. An Afternoon with Rock Hudson Dedalus, 2005 ISBN 1903517354Click here to see a sample. |
| Sylvie Germain | Hidden Lives (2008) Dedalus, 2010 ISBN 9781903517925
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| Jean-Pierre Ohl | The Lairds of Cromarty Dedalus, 2012 ISBN 9781907650741 (from Les Maîtres de Glenmarkie, 2008)
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| Georges Rodenbach | Bruges-la-Morte Dedalus, 2005 ISBN 1903517230 (Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst; with Death Throes of Towns translated by Will Stone) Click here to see a sample. The Bells of Bruges Dedalus, 2007 ISBN 9781903517543“There are few novels that quickly astound. This is one of them. Flawlessly translated,…” Herald 03.11.07 See also Prizes and awards. Click here to see a sample. Hans Cadzand's Vocation and Other Stories Dedalus, 2011 ISBN 9781903517864Click here to see a sample. |
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