The first major biography about the GDR's most fascinating author. Carsten Gansel's comprehensive biography provides an exciting reassessment of a writer's life in its ups and downs and a complex work that is currently being discovered and celebrated internationally.

One of the most intense yet absorbing studies ever done of a normal man's descent into drunkenness.

He has always been popular, and his world literary status is now recognized: the author Hans Fallada has been completely rediscovered in recent years. It is time to take a new approach to his biography and to evaluate the rich, previously unexplored material.

It presents a richly detailed portrait of life in Berlin under the Nazis and tells the sweeping saga of one working-class couple who decides to take a stand when their only son is killed at the front. With nothing but their grief and each other against the awesome power of the Reich, they launch a simple, clandestine resistance campaign that soon has an enraged Gestapo on their trail, and a...

The Berlin Wall Memorial Center on Bernauer Strasse is the main memorial site of divided Germany, located in the center of the German capital. Alongside the exhibit at the former border strip, a permanent exhibition entitled ‘1961 - 1989. The Berlin Wall’ was opened in November 2014, providing information about the political and historical context.

This selection from his extensive lyrical work enables many discoveries and allows you to experience how Rilke ‘made the German poem perfect for the first time’ (Robert Musil). With a compact biography of the author.

Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Torless is an intense study of an adolescent's psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting emotions. Through his relationship with two other boys Torless is led into sadistic and sexual encounters with a third pupil which both repel and...

His short story collection Drei Frauen (Three Women) -- consisting of Grigia, The Portuguese Lady, and Tonka -- was published in 1924. Musil in these tales explores Europe on the verge between civilization and brutality, the modern and pre-modern, nationalism and humanism, and between ‘precision and soul,’ to use Musil's own phrase. In encounters with the three women of the title, each male...

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic emphasis on the psychological.

The fourth book in the beloved Harry Potter series, now illustrated in glorious full color by award-winning artist Jim Kay. With over 150 illustrations!

The fifth book in the beloved, bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in brilliant full color.

The third book in the bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in glorious full color by award-winning artist Jim Kay!