A young couple and three days of happiness - the little prose idyll about the lovers Claire and Wölfchen, who try to escape the everyday life of Berlin's big city, made Kurt Tucholsky famous overnight. His first and lightest book. A wonderful summer read, not only for lovers.

'What comes after?' If life after death were to be what Kurt Tucholsky envisioned, then it wouldn't be bad at all: sitting on a cloud with a friend and contemplating life. In the 1920s he devoted himself to the hereafter, God, human errors and relationships in 20 profound and amusing stories that appeared as a column in the Weltbuehne. With an afterword by Ute Maack. Illustrated by Hannah Kolling.

A representative selection from Heinrich Heine's four large poetry collections: from the early Book of Songs to the New Poems to the Romanzero and the late Poems. A detailed commentary provides information on the genesis of the poems, contemporary references and backgrounds as well as explanations of words.

Ever since it was first published in 1984, this anthology of German poems has been one of the classics in Reclam Verlag's programme. It offers a deliberately short selection of excellent and representative poems by over 100 most important poets in the German language from a period of more than twelve centuries. It has been updated and expanded again and again, now with poems by Elke Erb, Ulrich...

A lyrical cross-section through the diversity of romanticism. The epoch was a heyday of poetry art. She turned to new themes, the fairytale, the night, longing, she developed new motifs such as forest solitude, moonlight and Loreley and aimed at the dissolution of the individual's boundaries in nature or in the universe. The selection ranges from the beginnings in Jena to late Romanticism, from...

He made his debut as child prodigy Loris, and very early on, at about twenty years of age, Hofmannsthal found his style in poetry. The famous poems that form the core of his ultimately small lyrical oeuvre, which is presented here in a selected edition, were composed in the mid-1890s.

In the course of his life Goethe wrote more than three thousand poems, apparently easy to understand, but also those of the highest linguistic and metaphorical complexity, poems in song-like strophic forms, in strict ancient meters or rhymeless poetry. With this lyrical work, which is exceptional in scope and importance, he actually created the German-language poem of the modern age.

Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away-by a figure who claims to come...

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her.

To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up...

Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, Fyrian. Xan rescues the abandoned children and delivers them to welcoming...