German Literature Classics

Gerade aus der Haft entlassen, möchte sich Franz Biberkopf eine neue Existenz aufbauen. Doch den Lockungen der Großstadt kann er nicht widerstehen und wird schon bald wieder in kriminelle Machenschaften verwickelt, die ihn fast an den Galgen bringen. Das bewegende Schicksal des Arbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der sich in einer Welt des Verbrechens verirrt, steht exemplarisch für den Kampf des kleinen Mannes in einer unsicher gewordenen Welt. Döblin schuf damit einen Jahrhundertroman, der häufig mit "Ulysses" verglichen wird. Hannes Messemer liest diese atemlose, polyphone Symphonie der Großstadt bravourös ein.

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.

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.

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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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BOOKER PRIZE A haunting apocalyptic adventure, and a formidable exploration of what it means to be human in a shifting world, from "one of the very great writers alive today." (China Miéville) "A book not just about everything but about now.” —Booker Prize Judge...

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 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...

2026 PEN AMERICA AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march...

Emilia Galotti soll den Grafen Appiani heiraten. Doch auch der absolut herrschende Prinz begehrt sie – und ist bereit, seine Macht zu nutzen, um die Hochzeit zu verhindern. Ein Überfall, ein Toter und eine Entführung bringen Emilia in die Gewalt des Hofes. Zwischen Liebe, Macht und Moral gerät sie in einen Konflikt, aus dem es keinen einfachen Ausweg gibt. Lessings berühmtes Drama über Machtmissbrauch, Selbstbestimmung und die Frage, wie weit ein Mensch für seine Überzeugungen gehen darf.

Tonio Kröger is fourteen years old, the son of a proper north German consul and a beautiful, unconventional mother from the south, when he first understands that he is different from everyone around him. He writes poetry his teachers mock. He loves, from a hopeless distance, a blond and blue-eyed classmate who will never understand him. He watches the easy, unreflective happiness of ordinary people the way a starving man might watch a feast through glass. Years later, having become the writer he was always going to become, Tonio explains himself to a friend in Munich: the artist, he ...

Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe...

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 ...

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

Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew the musicians and dancers, the drunks and dope fiends. In Harlem...

In I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s. His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships, wars, revolutions. He meets and...

This annotated edition includes: A new, original English translation of Siddhartha (1922), made directly from Hesse's German — the first new rendering in decades to enter Kindle Unlimited A critical study of some 17,000 words on the sermon that fails and the kiss that succeeds A Note on the Text and the Translation, with a full glossary of the terminology decisions made and why A live table of contents The most famous line in the book says wisdom cannot be handed from one person to another. Hesse wrote the book anyway, and had the honesty to let it half-fail. For seventy years, English ...

Der Zauberberg erstmals als ungekürztes Hörbuch, virtuos gelesen von Thomas Sarbacher. Geplant als Novelle, als heiteres Gegenstück zum Tod in Venedig, entstand mit dem Zauberberg einer der großen Romane der klassischen Moderne. Ein kurzer Besuch in einem Davoser Sanatorium wird für den Protagonisten Hans Castorp zu einem siebenjährigen Aufenthalt, der Kurort wird zur Bühne für die europäische Befindlichkeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg.

Art imitates life in this brilliant psychological study of a compulsive gambler, modeled on Dostoevsky's own tendencies. Like so many characters in Dostoevsky's novels, Alexei, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general, is trying to break through the wall of the...

"The Sand-man, the terrible Sand-man, is the old advocate Coppelius." 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 One; The Doge and Dogess, Master Martin ...