| Author | Günter Grass |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Imprint | Penguin |
| Associate Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
| Translated by | Ralph Manheim |
| Cover Art by | Günter Grass |
| Copyright Holder | Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH & Co KG |
| Copyright Holder (Translation) | Pantheon Books |
| Set and Printed by | Cox & Wyman Ltd |
| Bound by | Cox & Wyman Ltd |
| Series | Danzig Trilogy |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 1959 |
| Republished | 1962 |
| This Edition Published | 1965 |
| Reprinted | 1984 |
| Pages / Font | 585 pages / Monotype Times |
| ISBN | 0-14-002359-3 |
| Barcode | 9 780140 023596 |
| EAN 5 | 9000 |
| Price | U.K. £3.50 / Aust. $8.95 / N.Z. $11.95 / Can. $6.95 |
| Chapters | Contents
Book One
The Wide Skirt
Under the Raft
Moth and Light Bulb
The Photograph Album
Smash a Little Window-pane
The Schedule
Rasputin and the Alphabet
The Stockturm. Long-Distance Song Effects
The Rostrum
Shop-windows
No Wonder
Good Friday Fare
Tapered at the Foot End
Herbert Truczinski's Back
Niobe
Faith, Hope, Love
Book Two
Scrap Metal
The Polish Post Office
The Card House
He Lies in Saspe
Maria
Fizz Powder
Special Communiqués
How Oskar Took His Helplessness to Mrs Greff
165 Lbs
Bebra's Theatre at the Front
Inspection of Concrete, or Barbaric, Mystical, Bored
The Imitation of Christ
The Dusters
The Christmas Play
The Ant Trail
Should I or Shouldn't I?
Disinfectant
Growth in a Freight Car
Book Three
Firestones and Tombstones
Fortuna North
Madonna
The Hedgehog
In the Clothes Cupboard
Klepp
On the Fibre Rug
In the Onion Cellar
On the Atlantic Wall, or Concrete Eternal
The Ring Finger
The Last Streetcar, or Adoration of a Preserving Jar
Thirty
Glossary Contents
Book One
The Wide Skirt
Under the Raft
Moth and Light Bulb
The Photograph Album
Smash a Little Window-pane
The Schedule
Rasputin and the Alphabet
The Stockturm. Long-Distance Song Effects
The Rostrum
Shop-windows
No Wonder
Good Friday Fare
Tapered at the Foot End
Herbert Truczinski's Back
Niobe
Faith, Hope, Love
Book Two
Scrap Metal
The Polish Post Office
The Card House
He Lies in Saspe
Maria
Fizz Powder
Special Communiqués
How Oskar Took His Helplessness to Mrs Greff
165 Lbs
Bebra's Theatre at the Front
Inspection of Concrete, or Barbaric, Mystical, Bored
The Imitation of Christ
The Dusters
The Christmas Play
The Ant Trail
Should I or Shouldn't I?
Disinfectant
Growth in a Freight Car
Book Three
Firestones and Tombstones
Fortuna North
Madonna
The Hedgehog
In the Clothes Cupboard
Klepp
On the Fibre Rug
In the Onion Cellar
On the Atlantic Wall, or Concrete Eternal
The Ring Finger
The Last Streetcar, or Adoration of a Preserving Jar
Thirty
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| Notes | Die Blechtrommel first published in Germany 1959 Copyright © Hermann Luchterhand Verlag GmbH, 1959 This translation first published in the U.S.A. 1961 Published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1962 Published in Penguin Books 1965 Reprinted 1967, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980 (four times), 1981, 1982 (twice), 1983, 1984 Translation copyright © Pantheon Books, 1961, 1962 Penguin Books in association with Secker & Warburg [page 3] |