German Classics

The novel that made Thomas Mann immortal at twenty-five — and that the Swedish Academy singled out by name when it awarded him the Nobel Prize in 1929. Buddenbrooks follows the rise and slow fall of a Lübeck merchant dynasty across four generations: a monument of European realism and, at the same time, one of the most quietly modern novels ever written. This annotated Erato Press edition presents the complete, unabridged classic 1924 translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter — the version through which generations of English readers first met Mann — and surrounds it with an extensive critical...

The German Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 7 classic works of fiction and philosophy by German authors, read by a stellar cast of David Rintoul; Peter Noble; Ben Allen; Malk Williams; Daniel Weyman. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Thomas Mann, Herman Hesse, Kafka, and Nietzsche.

Rediscover the magic and menace of Grimms Fairy Tales in a fresh edition crafted for today’s readers. This Adapted for Modern Readers version keeps the original plots, moods, and morals intact while refining archaic phrasing, cleaning up inconsistent punctuation, and presenting clear, contemporary typography. Enjoy smooth, consistent formatting on every device, lightly clarified language that never talks down to you, and a reading experience that lets the stories shine without distraction. Rooted in the oral traditions of nineteenth-century Europe, these timeless tales explore justice, ...

Los hijos legítimos de Fiódor Pávlovich Karamázov - un "bufón", un "filisteo", un "déspota", solo en última instancia un padre - se reúnen después de haber sido educados, lejos unos de otros, en distintas partes de Rusia: Dmitri es soldado y - como su padre - puro "ímpetu", bebedor, derrochador, lujurioso; Iván se ha convertido en un escéptico que duda de la ley, de la conciencia y de la fe (el primer existencialista, según Sartre); Aliosha ha abrazado la religión, todo el mundo lo llama "ángel" y vive en un monasterio.

The most dangerous novel Hermann Hesse ever wrote — and the one he almost didn't survive. This new translation restores its full strangeness. Harry Haller is fifty years old, brilliant, and convinced he is two beings at war inside a single body: a cultivated man of letters and a wild wolf of the steppes, irreconcilable, exhausting each other. One night, instead of ending his life, he follows a stranger into a magic theater where the price of admission is your sanity — and where the self turns out to be not two things, but a thousand. Published in 1927, Steppenwolf is Hesse's most ...

NOSFERATU – A Symphony of Horror The Cult Film Transformed into a Novel – Darker, Deeper, Unrelenting Over 100 years ago, F.W. Murnau introduced the world to the very first vampire film, Nosferatu – A Symphony of Horror. Now, the myth awakens once again – not on the screen, but on the pages of this novel. This adaptation not only honors the cinematic classic, it expands and deepens its terror, elevating the horror to a whole new level. If you’re a fan of vampire legends, Gothic horror, and classic tales of dread, this book is made for you. A Journey into Darkness Follow Thomas ...

The first book in a brand-new series, Hunt the Red Hood, from TikTok sensation B.B. Reid, a dark romantic retelling of Red Riding Hood. "Guard your heart, foolish girl. The wolves will come to steal it." In a quiet French town steeped in old folklore, Nyx has always believed in logic—not...

A golden collection of gems from classic German literature, ranging from early Sturm und Drang, through Gothic horror, to some of the finest stories from later German Romanticism.

Lübeck, 1835. The Buddenbrook family is at the height of its prosperity: Johann Buddenbrook, grain merchant and patriarch, opens the doors of his magnificent new home to the cream of the city's society, and the world seems arranged to his satisfaction. The firm is strong. The family is respected. The future is assured. It will not always be so. Buddenbrooks follows four generations of a north German merchant dynasty from the peak of their wealth and social confidence to the extinction of their family line — a span of four decades rendered in extraordinary detail, from births and deaths ...

This complete collection brings together the full scope of Nietzsche's radical and transformative philosophy in a single, meticulously curated work.

25 Iconic German-Language Novels You Can Read in a Year is the third volume in the Great World Literature series—a carefully curated journey through nearly two and a half centuries of one of the world's richest literary traditions. From Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther to the contemporary fiction of Daniel Kehlmann and Robert Menasse, these twenty-five novels take the reader across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the wider German-speaking world. The collection brings together Romanticism, realism, modernism, existentialism, historical fiction and contemporary literature through ...

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel", "Hansel and Gretel", and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style.

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This second volume deepens the Devil's sardonic observations of early 19th-century European society through three interconnected narratives. Opening with a playful legal satire where Satan's publisher faces charges of literary fraud, the volume cleverly mocks the bureaucratic and legal systems of the German states. The narrative then moves to Frankfurt during Pentecost, where Satan observes the emerging world of international finance and speculation. Through the story of a lovesick merchant, Hauff provides fascinating insights into Jewish-Christian relations of the period, the rise of ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 “The funniest and smartest novel I've read in a while.” —Zadie Smith An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What...

In a quiet Swiss village in the Emmental valley, a family gathers to celebrate a christening. The food is plentiful, the wine is flowing, and the summer day feels untouched by misfortune. Yet built into the timber of the otherwise immaculate house stands a single blackened post, old and strangely out of place. When a guest asks about it, the room falls silent. At last, the grandfather begins to tell the story of what that piece of wood truly is, what his ancestors once did, and what came down from the mountain to punish them. Jeremias Gotthelf, the pen name of Swiss pastor Albert Bitzius, ...

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of...

From child prodigy to a commanding voice in classical music, Anne-Sophie Mutter has built a career around the expressive possibilities of the violin. This concise biography follows her early training, her breakthrough with Herbert von Karajan, and the artistic choices that carried her beyond the expectations placed on a young virtuoso. It explores her interpretations of the established repertoire, her collaborations with contemporary composers, and her belief that music must tell a story. Alongside the concert platform and recording studio, the book considers the personal experiences, ...

“The Sand-man, the terrible Sand-man, is the old advocate Coppelius who often comes to dine with us.” The most quoted line in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s fiction reveals that the monster haunting a child’s nightmares is not a sorcerer or a devil. He is a lawyer with an established local practice, who dines with the family. That is the key to everything in these eleven tales. This edition reprints, complete and unabridged, both volumes of the 1885 Scribner’s translation by J. T. Bealby: The Cremona Violin, The Fermata, Signor Formica, The Sand-Man, The Entail and Arthur’s Hall in Volume ...

Mendel Singer is a poor Jewish teacher in the Russian Pale of Settlement — a melamed who teaches small children the Torah in a single room and earns barely enough to feed his family. He is pious, unremarkable, the simplest of men. He is, Joseph Roth announces in the subtitle of his 1930 novel, precisely the kind of man that the ordeal available to Job is also available to. His youngest son Menuchim cannot walk properly, cannot speak properly, sits in the corner while Mendel teaches other children the letters he has not yet managed. The rabbi who is consulted delivers the prophecy that ...