»In diesem Buche des jungen Autors, der hiermit zum ersten Male vor die Öffentlichkeit tritt, werden die geistigen und sittlichen Versuchungen eines Pensionatszöglings in außerordentlich feinen und eigenartigen Wandlungen dargestellt. Es ist ein durchaus künstlerisches Werk, ein in seiner Wahrheit und originellen Anschaulichkeit packendes Seelengemälde, dessen realer Hintergrund das Interesse...

Den Novellenband Drei Frauen publizierte Musil 1924 als kleine Sammlung der bereits andernorts erschienenen Erzählungen Grigia, Die Portugiesin und Tonka.

A sweeping novel that takes us from the elegantly appointed mansions of Manila to the secluded private islands in the Sulu Sea, from a kidnapping at Hong Kong’s most elite private school to a surprise marriage proposal at an Indian palace, caught on camera by the telephoto lenses of paparazzi, Kevin Kwan's hilarious, gloriously wicked new novel reveals the long-buried secrets of Asia's most...

Fairy tales do not end with us and will never end. Over time, the texts get better, and there are more authors, and in general everything is just beginning. Always, every day, at any moment, everything is just beginning, but you probably didn’t know. No illustrations. newspaper paper.

The 1930s, the times of Stalinist repressions. A young man sentenced to 25 years for love of his homeland escapes from the stage echelon of the NKVD, which transports exhausted and desperate people to a slow death in the Gulag camps. A townsman, an aircraft design engineer, finds himself in a forest thicket teeming with predators, without a map, weapons, tools, warm clothes or even food.

Hartley Staples, near-graduate of middle school, is grappling with the fact that his older brother has run away from home, when he finds a handmade postcard that fascinates him. And soon he spots another. Despite his losing interest in pretty much everyth

Few of the writers managed to touch the souls of readers with the skill of their words in the way that A.I. Kuprin. Kind, touching stories imbued with sincere love and compassion will resonate in the hearts of readers and leave no room for callousness, cr

The book includes works about the Great Patriotic War - the story ‘And the dawns here are quiet...’ and the novel ‘Not on the lists’.

Cinder, the star of the Lunar Chronicles, is getting married! She and Emperor Kai have made it to their big day - now all Cinder has to do is show up and say 'I do.' But it's not so easy when there are twists and turns and obstacles along the way, and you, the reader, are in control of her fate, along with the many friends and strangers she meets on this adventure. Can you and Cinder make it to...

Neues von Hans Fallada entdecken: Die hier versammelten Anekdoten, Berichte, Erzählungen und Reden, die von der Mitte der 1920er Jahre bis zu seinem Tod 1947 reichen, sind zum Teil wenig bekannt oder noch gänzlich unveröffentlicht. Sie offenbaren, in welchem Maße der Autor ein einzigartiges Gespür für soziale Problemlagen entwickelt, sensibel Wirklichkeit beobachtet und künstlerische Mittel...

Die Brüder Grimm »schauten dem Volk aufs Maul« und notierten getreulich, was die Märchenfrau erzählte. So stellen sich viele die Entstehung der Märchen vor. So war es aber nicht. Die Grimms griffen oft radikal in die Texte ein, glätteten, bauten um und aus.

Kaffeehaus-Frühling, das von Helmut Peschina herausgegebene Wien-Lesebuch, zeigt die bravourösen feuilletonistischen Anfänge Joseph Roths.