In 1926qliving on the Edge of Time

by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Book Overview

It was not 1066 or 1588 or 1945, yet 1926 was the year A.A. Milne published Winnie-the-Pooh and Alfred Hitchcock released his first successful film, The Lodger. A set of modern masters was at work - Jorge Luis Borges, Babe Ruth, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Greta Garbo, Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein and Martin Heidegger - while factory workers, secretaries, engineers, architects, and Argentine cattle-ranchers were performing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674000560
• ISBN13: 9780674000568
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 505 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"