Charles Dickens’ Klassiker in einer modernen Neuübersetzung von Hans-Christian Oeser, die dem Geist des Originals wunderbar treu bleibt! Die bekannte Weihnachtserzählung gehört zum Fest einfach dazu und damit die berührende Botschaft: Weihnachten, das ist das Fest der Liebe und Menschlichkeit.

Der Landvermesser K. kommt in einem winterlich stillen Dorf an. Sein Ziel: Das nahe und doch unerreichbare Schloss. Tiefer und tiefer verirrt sich K. im labyrinthischen Verwaltungsapparat des Schlosses und dem undurchsichtigen Beziehungsgeflecht im Dorf, bis nicht nur die Absichten der Dorfgemeinde, sondern auch seine eigenen immer fragwürdiger erscheinen. Das Schloss wurde Franz Kafkas letzter...

»Du bist die Aufgabe. Kein Schüler weit und breit.« – Diesen und 108 weitere Aphorismen notiert Kafka während eines Kuraufenthalts bei seiner Schwester Ottla im böhmischen Zürau. In rätselhafter Mehrdeutigkeit legen sie Zeugnis ab von Kafkas existentieller Selbstbefragung. Neben den Zürauer Aphorismen enthält der Band die sogenannten ›Er-Aphorismen‹, in denen Kafka seine Gedanken fortführt.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a pilot, journalist and soldier, philosopher and inventor, but above all one of the most popular writers in the world. His books, written with boundless love for life, are published everywhere, and the philosophical tale 'The Little Prince' has been translated into all major languages of the planet. Author's illustrations to it are easily recognized by people of all...

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates...

An almost forgotten novel and a deeply moving testimony: No one has described the months of collapse in 1945/46 as vividly as the author of 'Everyone Dies Alone.' This book about the confusing time between war and peace, in the Mecklenburg province and especially in the city of Berlin, which was punished for its historical guilt, is a real Fallada in its humanly warm and at the same time...

The writer worked on it for more than twenty years, but never managed to finish it. Despite this, ‘The Man Without Qualities’ became one of the greatest works of German-language literature, which, without exaggeration, can be called the greatest study of the human soul. 1913. The government of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is establishing a committee that is to develop a special plan of events...

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.

The last of London's books published during his lifetime, it involves a love triangle set in California. The main character, Paula, is married to Dick Forrest but falls in love with Evan Graham. The story's sexuality bothered readers at the time but their actions appear rather unrealistic based on modern day standards.

‘Ship Master’ is a real story with real prototypes. In the plot, you can recognize the artistic bohemians of that time: director Oleksandr Dovzhenko, director of Odesa and Kyiv film factories Pavlo Neches, artist, architect, one of the founders of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Vasyl Krychevskyi. This is the story of creativity, love, the stormy era of the emergence of cinema and life in Odessa...