German Classics

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.

Erlebe das Monster wie du es noch nie zuvor gehört hast. Audible präsentiert Dracula, eine brandneue, hochkarätig besetzte Adaption von Bram Stokers Meisterwerk mit Matthias Schweighöfer, Jeanne Goursaud, Lea van Acken und Pegah Ferydoni in den Hauptrollen. Minas Verlobtem sind in Transsilvanien mysteriöse Dinge widerfahren. Sie versucht, anhand von Briefen, Aufzeichnungen und ziemlich schaurigen Zeugenaussagen herauszufinden, wer es auf ihre Liebsten abgesehen hat.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

The definitive, long-awaited, and revelatory intellectual biography of Hannah Arendt, one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century Drawing on newly discovered archival materials and previously overlooked documents—from both Germany, where Hannah Arendt was born to a Jewish family...

Der Wildtöter ist ein 1841 veröffentlichter Abenteuerroman des amerikanischen Schriftstellers James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851). Der Wildtöter erschien als letzter Band des fünfteiligen Lederstrumpf-Zyklus. Im chronologischen Handlungsablauf der Serie bildet der Roman den ersten Band. Ebenfalls 1841 erschienen die ersten beiden deutschsprachigen Ausgaben des Romans, übersetzt von Gustav Pfizer und von Otto von Czarnowski.

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 ...

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

"Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes" (Originaltitel: "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes") sind eine Sammlung von zwölf Kurzgeschichten von Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Die Geschichten wurden ursprünglich von Juli 1891 bis Juni 1892 im Strand Magazine veröffentlicht, der Sammelband mit Illustrationen von Sidney Paget erschien am 14. Oktober 1892 in Großbritannien und am 15. Oktober 1892 in den USA. Im Zentrum der Handlung stehen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. John Watson, die seltsame Verbrechen aufklären.

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 ...

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 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 could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao. The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait...

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...

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 ...

In Herr und Hund erzählt Thomas Mann mit feinem Humor und großer Zuneigung von der Beziehung zwischen einem Schriftsteller und seinem Hund Bauschan. In scheinbar beiläufigen Beobachtungen des gemeinsamen Alltags entfaltet sich ein liebevolles Porträt von Treue, Eigenwilligkeit und stiller Verbundenheit. Die Erzählung verbindet Naturerlebnis, Selbstreflexion und leise Ironie zu einem warmen, menschlichen Blick auf das Leben.

Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame (Erster Band) auch: Notre-Dame von Paris, Originaltitel: Notre-Dame de Paris) ist einer in zwei Bänden 1831 erschienener historischer Roman des französischen Schriftstellers Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Im Mittelpunkt steht die aufwändig geschilderte Kathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris. In ihr spielen die wichtigsten Teile der Romanhandlung, vor allem das Geschehen um die Gestalt des Quasimodo, des Glöckners von Notre-Dame.

Gustav von Aschenbach has built an entire life, and a considerable reputation, on discipline. A distinguished writer, ennobled by his government, widowed young, he has organized every hour of every day around the conviction that great art is achieved through rigorous self-mastery, never through surrender to mere feeling. Exhausted and restless, he travels to Venice for what he tells himself will be simple rest. There, among the guests of his grand hotel, he sees a Polish family — and among them, a boy of extraordinary, almost unbearable beauty. Aschenbach tells himself this fascination is...