»Fabian« ist Erich Kästners Meisterwerk. Doch das Buch wurde vor seinem Erscheinen 1931 verändert und gekürzt, denn der junge Kästner hatte in seinem ersten Roman alle Register gezogen. Das machte das Manuskript für den Verlag zu einem Sprengsatz, den das Lektorat mit spitzen Fingern entschärfte. Das Buch erschien schließlich entgegen Kästners ursprünglicher Intention unter dem Titel »Fabian«....

Der zeitlose Klassiker über winterliche Irrungen und Wirrungen jetzt in einem Band mit der wiederentdeckten Kästner-Erzählung Inferno im Hotel. Dieses Buch versammelt erstmals Erich Kästners Welterfolg »Drei Männer im Schnee« und die Erzählung »Inferno im Hotel«, die 1927 nur in einer Zeitung erschien und Kästner später als Vorlage für den Roman diente. Dazu ein Beitrag der Kästner-Expertin...

The book includes two of the most famous novels by American writer Mark Twain 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Boys and girls have been reading stories about the adventures of two desperate and naughty boys for almost two centuries. Tom and Huck are two good friends. True, they are forbidden to make friends, because Huck is a tramp, well-bred children...

With care for your eyes! Large-font edition for easy reading. The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the most popular novels by Alexandre Dumas, is a stunning success with readers. The author took its plot from the archives of the Parisian police. The real life of the shoemaker François Picot, who became the prototype of Edmond Dantes, was transformed under the pen of a real artist into a gripping...

With this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Thomas Mann rose to the front ranks of the great modern novelists, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. The Magic Mountain takes place in an exclusive tuberculosis sanatorium in the Swiss Alps–a community devoted to sickness that serves as a fictional microcosm for Europe in the days before the First World War. To this hermetic and...

This book introduces readers to the legacy of the outstanding Russian writer Varlam Shalamov. The works included in the collection give a complete picture of the various stages of his work. A series of 'Kolyma Tales' is published here, as well as stories from the collections 'Left Bank', 'A Spade Artist', 'Essays on the Underworld,' 'Resurrection of Larch,' and 'Glove, or KR-2.'

Valerian Pidmohylnyi’s The City was a landmark event in the history of Ukrainian literature. Written by a master craftsman in full control of the texture, rhythm, and tone of the text, the novel tells the story of Stepan, a young man from the provinces who moves to the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, and achieves success as a writer through a succession of romantic encounters with women.

Mit großer Leidenschaft erzählt Remarque die Geschichte des Arztes Ravic, der nach Paris emigriert und hier den Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges erlebt. Aus Liebe zu zwei Frauen und dem Hass auf einen Gestapo-Agenten entwickelt sich das Drama eines Exilschicksals, in dessen Realität sich der Aufstand gegen den Terror einer ganzen Epoche spiegelt.

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old women no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime, to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity? So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, a fascinating...

Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with...