»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...

Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences,...

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.'

The novel ‘The Gambler’ has strong autobiographical motives, because Dostoevsky himself was a gambler. The story of the creation of this book is very interesting: having lost his last penny in Wiesbaden, the writer, desperately in need of money, signed a contract with a publishing house, according to which he had to write a novel... in 26 days. These completely implausible terms forced...