German Classics

Im Mittelpunkt steht die tragische Liebesgeschichte zwischen der bürgerlichen Luise Miller und dem adeligen Ferdinand von Walter – zerrissen zwischen persönlichen Gefühlen und den gesellschaftlichen Zwängen ihrer Zeit. Schiller verbindet hier eine berührende Romanze mit scharfer Gesellschaftskritik. Machtspiele, Intrigen und der Gegensatz zwischen Adel und Bürgertum führen zu einem ebenso packenden wie erschütternden Finale.

Diese Gedichtsammlung braucht jeder Liebhaber feinster Lyrik!

Ein mächtiger Wirbelsturm reißt ein Holzhaus in die Luft und trägt es über viele Meilen hinweg in ein geheimnisvolles Land. Es ist kaum gelandet, da fangen für Dorothee und ihren Hund Toto die merkwürdigsten Abenteuer und Verwicklungen an, doch sie finden Freunde: einen Löwen, der mutig sein will, eine Vogelscheuche, die es zu Verstand bringen will, und einen Holzfäller aus Blech, der ein richtiges Herz haben will.

Rainer Maria Rilkes "Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge" (1910) ist ein Schlüsselwerk der literarischen Moderne und lässt sich aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht auf mehreren Ebenen analysieren und bewerten: Das Werk markiert einen Übergang von der klassischen Erzählform des 19. Jahrhunderts zur literarischen Moderne. Es steht in der Tradition des modernen Romans, vergleichbar mit James Joyce oder Marcel Proust, und bricht mit linearen Erzählstrukturen zugunsten einer fragmentarischen, subjektiven Darstellung.

Lindgrens Lausejunge in Höchstform: Fünf Jahre alt, stark wie ein kleiner Ochse und wenn er schläft, könnte man ihn fast für einen Engel halten. Nur ist er das eher nicht, unser Michel aus Lönneberga. Obwohl er eigentlich immer Gutes im Sinn hat, das dann leider schief läuft, steckt doch auch ganz schön viel Unsinn in seinem Kopf. Wie zum Beispiel, als er selbigen in eine Suppenschüssel steckt! Der Schweden-Klassiker als ungekürzte Lesung: dank Ursula Illert ein herrlicher Hörgenuss.

Schönheit, Liebe, Kunst und Tod. In Venedig steigert sich der alternde Schriftsteller Gustav von Aschenbach in eine Liebe zum schönen Jungen Tadzio...

A widow in her mid thirties, Alison has been in mourning for two years. She lives with her sister and brother-in-law in West Virginia, and they are urging her to get on with her life and move back home. Alison promises to leave--just as soon as she renovates a nearly-ruined 1976 Corvette rusting...

A spirited and revealing memoir by the most celebrated editor of his time After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster. By the time he left to run Alfred A. Knopf a...

A celebration of cabaret in Berlin and the birth of cinema, set against the rise and fall of Germany between World War I and World War II As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. The illegitimate, soon orphaned daughter of a cabaret...

"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets...

The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter...

Martha Horgan is not like other women. She stares. She has violent crushes on people. She can't stop telling the truth. Martha craves love, independence, and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging...

April and Oliver have been soul mates since childhood, and the attraction between them has always been palpable. Now, years after being completely inseparable, they have become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives are about to collide once again with the sudden death of...

In the tradition of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse comes a new spiritual novel that is a stunning feat of storytelling and imagination. A Poet of the Invisible World follows a boy named Nouri, born in thirteenth-century Persia, with four ears instead of two. Orphaned as an infant, he's taken...

Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer...

In this exquisite debut novel, a host of characters confront their confusions in love. Claire, an art specialist at Sotheby's, lives in a world of glamour and achievement–but after attending an art opening, where she runs into the young man her husband had left her for five years earlier, she...

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter...

No writer today illuminates the struggles of families–and the crises that can tear them apart–better than #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard. "A first-rate storyteller" (Newsweek) who "renders her characters flawlessly, endowing them with a humanity that is both...

Hailed as one of America’s most insightful and inventive storytellers, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard now takes listeners on a breathtaking journey of suspense and high adventure. Back in high school, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly were known as The Godmothers, the girls...

Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years...