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  • Paperback: 816 pages
  • Publisher: Melville House; Unabridged edition (May 25, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1933633921
  • ISBN-13: 978-1933633923
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.3 x 8.1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Magnificent Masterpiece of Narrative Tension
By Ron E. Kendricks on June 1, 2010
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This brilliantly rendered historical novel is a masterpiece matched perhaps only by Charles Dickens. Hans Fallada is a talented genius of the narrative composition. His characters come to life as if in a movie. No book that I am aware of has ever held such suspenseful intrigue for 793 pages as this one. It even surpasses "War and Peace."

This book, written in 1936-1937 still resonants with relevancy to our contemporary 2lst Century. It is an inspiring tale of perservance during political, social, and economic upheaval. This beautiful novel is a masterpiece of critical realism. It represents a clarion call to humanism and compassion amidst economic devastation. It depicts a depraved world ruined by incompetence, indifference, and greed. The protagonist Wolf Pagel, lives among wolves, but refuses to become one of them. This wonderful book, a hundred years before its time, declares that the individual can rise above the social and moral ills of his time.One of the most moving passages asserts what courage is:

"I used to think that courage meant standing up straight when a shell exploded
and taking your share of the shrapnel. Now I know that's mere stupidity and
bravado; courage means keeping going when something becomes completely unbearable."

Fallada's love for storytelling is marvelous! You come to know, respect and understand his characters. Like Robert Musil's "The Man With No Qualities," "Wolf Among Wolves," is a brilliant study of the psychology of individuals in everyday life, entangled in the circumstances of his time.

The novel also gives us direct insight of how economical devastation and social depravity leads to fear and insecurity and which can then result in Fascism.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWeimar Vanity Fair
By Gio on October 7, 2010
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The "Talking Horse" had a lot to say, and he said a great deal of it in his 1937 novel "Wolf unter Wölfen". Some readers appear to think he said more than he needed to -- this English translation is over 700 pages of dense type -- and at least one prior reviewer has asserted that he didn't say enough about the nastiness of Nazis by and large. I'm reminded of the incident when the Kaiser reprimanded W.A. Mozart for having "too many notes" in a piece of music. Mozart cheekily replied, "No, Your Majesty, not one not too many!" That expresses my response to "Wolf Among Wolves" -- not one scene or character too many.

But it is a sprawling novel, on the scale of War and Peace, Buddenbrooks, or Thackery's "Vanity Fair". The last comparison is the most apt; Fallada's "Wolf Among Wolves" is a scorching portrayal of the vanities and follies od a whole society, that of post-WW1 Germany in 1923 and thereafter. The Wolf of the title is Wolfgang Pagel, the only scion of a wealthy family, who has become estranged from his widowed mother by 'hooking up' with Petra, a former prostitute. Wolf is introduced at his nadir, a compulsive gambler who's lost his last stakes. But Wolf is surrounded by wolves, by a huge cast of other fools and knaves: landladies, street lowlives, upper-echelon former officers of the Wehrmacht, rural landowners, cynical servants, poachers and foresters, and in particular a sinister 'activist' on behalf of the Cause, in other words an early agitator for Nazism. The scale of the novel merely reflects the scale of the societal catastrophe in Germany in the era of hyper-inflation. "Wolf Among Wolves" matches "Vanity Fair" in its brilliantly unfunny humor, its relentless satire of wealth and pride, and in its core values of sympathy for "the little man".Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsRedemption
By Keith A. Comess VINE VOICE on July 19, 2010
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Hans Fallada was resurrected from the literary dead by Melville House publishers with the first English publication of "Every Man Dies Alone" about a year ago. Since that time, several other of his books have been re-issued, including, "Wolf Among Wolves", his apparent magnum opus. When "Wolf" originally appeared, it was evidently highly edited. This is the first unexpurgated version and it extends for nearly 800 unevenly written pages.

"Wolf" is set in post-WW I Germany, an "interesting" time. Following the unexpected collapse of the Imperial German Army and the draconian provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, competing extremist groups of both the far Left and the far Right battled both literally and figuratively for political ascendency while the political "middle" collapsed. Further roiling the waters was the untimely demise of the world-wide economy, now known as the Great Depression. In Germany (and in other countries, as well), rampant inflation occurred which, when coupled with high unemployment, a sense of national humiliation and grievance, German default on reparations in 1923 (culminating in the subsequent French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr Valley industrial area), created times that were difficult, indeed. While various international measures were enacted (such as the 1924 Dawes Plan) by the Allied Reparations Committee in an attempt to help Germany stave off total implosion, extreme nationalist tendencies prevailed, riding on the back of such face-saving myths as the Dolchstoßlegende ("stab in the back" legend).Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsA tortuous tapestry of 20s German urban and rural life

This lengthy novel was Fallada’s magnum opus, published during the Nazi era, 1937. Having read all of his major works, I can list my ratings as follows. Read more

Published 20 days ago by Sverre Svendsen
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Beautiful

Published 7 months ago by Rukhsanah Singh
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book

Published 8 months ago by Richard Reed
5.0 out of 5 starsTerrific and a must read for all book lovers

What a terrific book. I found this book in a bookstore a couple of years back and even though I had purchased the book, kept putting off the book in view of its sheer volume (It... Read more

Published 9 months ago by Ranga
4.0 out of 5 starsRefreshing about a sad subject

Nice to read something with a true foreign perspective

Published 9 months ago by Donna E
4.0 out of 5 starsGreat , like other Fallada books

Great insight into a tragic period in European history.

Published 12 months ago by SMB.
5.0 out of 5 starsAlthough I am pleased with Hans Fallada's book

Although I am pleased with Hans Fallada's book, it is a paperback & was bound with the first 24 pages, title page & any forward, missing. Read more

Published 18 months ago by Gene J. Torncello
5.0 out of 5 starsEpic and essential

This was an incredibly important read for me. It's a story of life in Germany running up to World War 2, told by a master of realism.

It's shortly after World War 1. Read more

Published 22 months ago by Helen Maryles Shankman
5.0 out of 5 starsSimply excellent

Its simply an excellent rendition of all that is good and bad about humanity. One of my two favourite Fallada books, the other being Alone in Berlin

Published on December 11, 2013 by PCB
5.0 out of 5 starsWhat a great window into the post WW1 Germany and economic collapse

I hope my headline doesn't scare away those who like a good story. His straight-forward writing style keeps this from becoming a moralistic book. Read more

Published on June 23, 2013 by Princess

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