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.

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 ...

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 ...

Die abenteuerliche Reise im Unterseeboot als aufwendige Hörspiel-Neuinszenierung! Professor Aronnax, sein Diener Conseil und der Harpunier Ned Land jagen ein riesiges See-Ungeheuer. Dabei geraten sie in Gefangenschaft des menschenfeindlichen Kapitäns Nemo. In dessen Schiff "Nautilus" erkunden die Gefährten die faszinierende Unterwasserwelt und exotische Gestade. Der Klassiker aus der Feder von Jules Verne ist eines der bekanntesten Werke der frühen Sci-Fi-Literatur und bietet Spannung und wissenschaftliche Utopie.

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

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.

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 ...

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...

Before Buddenbrooks. Before Death in Venice. Before the Nobel Prize — six early stories, written between 1896 and 1898, in which a twenty-something Thomas Mann discovered, one narrative at a time, the themes that would occupy him for the rest of his career. In Little Herr Friedemann, a man disabled since infancy has built an entire philosophy around careful renunciation — until a woman he cannot resist arrives and dismantles it completely. In Death, a dying man's diary renders, from the inside, the strange clarity of a consciousness that knows its own end is near. In The Will to ...

Turn skeptics into fans and fans into scholars with this smart, entertaining guide to 20 influential reality shows, from The Real World to The Traitors. Much like reality itself, reality TV has one main problem: There’s just too much of it. Whether you’re a devoted fan who wants to share...

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...

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...

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, ...

The perfect alibi. The perfect motive. The perfect lie? Jemma Stelling walks into a police station and confesses—not to a murder she’s committed, but to the one she’s terrified she might. Jemma can’t stop herself from thinking about murdering her stepmother, Marianne Upton. The only way...

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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 ...

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...