Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, ‘aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair,’ a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the...

Seventeen-year-old Kiva Meridan has spent the last ten years fighting for survival in the notorious death prison, Zalindov, working as the prison healer. When the Rebel Queen is captured, Kiva is charged with keeping the terminally ill woman alive long enough for her to undergo the Trial by Ordeal: a series of elemental challenges against the torments of air, fire, water, and earth, assigned to...

Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart.

Diese Ausgabe der »Suhrkamp BasisBibliothek - Arbeitstexte für Schule und Studium« bietet nicht nur eine repräsentative Auswahl der Gedichte Paul Celans, sondern im Anhang auch die für das Verständnis des Werks höchst aufschlussreiche Büchner-Preisrede »Der Meridian«. Ergänzt wird die Edition von einem Kommentar, der alle für das Verständnis der Gedichte erforderlichen Informationen enthält:...

»Was diese Gedichte an Irritationen, an Desorientierung auch ausdrücken mögen, sie zeigen alle die Unbeirrbarkeit an der Fähigkeit dieses Ausdrückenkönnens. Sie zeigen eine Meisterschaft in der Beherrschung der Mittel, die Celan ausgebildet hat, wie kaum ein Band von ihm vorher.« Helmut Heißenbüttel

‘The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ is a classic of ‘horror literature,’ a work whose popularity only increases with time. This short novel about a Victorian scientist who conducts a daring and dangerous experiment on himself, thereby unleashing his dark ‘self’ from the depths of his subconscious – the sinister villain and murderer Mr. Hyde – continues to stir minds and hearts,...

This book is highly recommended as a reference book for family reading and for use in all educational institutions. And as for government officials and other persons in positions of power, they should consider it their duty to familiarize themselves with this work, lest their exercise of power turn into an even greater misfortune for the Fatherland.

In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the...

Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos's great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. Aristocrats and ex-lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont embark on a sophisticated game of seduction and manipulation to bring amusement to their jaded lives. While Merteuil challenges Valmont to seduce an...

‘The Robot Tales,’ written and published by Stanislaw Lem between 1963 and 1965, tell stories set in an imaginary pseudo-medieval universe where robots have taken the place of humans. They dream and fall in love, perform heroic deeds and play petty tricks on each other – just like members of humanity. The stories have been translated into 18 languages and have also been adapted into several...