A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned-a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

Heiligabend im Haus des Medizinalrats Stahlbaum: Auf dem reichen Gabentisch findet sich auch ein Nussknacker, den die kleine Marie sofort ins Herz schließt. Um Mitternacht erwachen die neuen Spielzeuge zum Leben …

»Berlin Alexanderplatz« gehört neben dem »Ulysses« von James Joyce und »Manhattan Transfer« von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschienen, erzählt der Roman die bewegende Geschichte des Franz Biberkopf, der nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Gefängnis in einen Strudel aus Verrat und Verbrechen gerät. Darüber hinaus aber...

This story inspired Hans Christian Andersen to write ‘The Little Mermaid’! A cult story about love and betrayal, written by a classic of foreign literature, Friedrich de la Motte Fouquet. More than 7 operas have been written based on history, and more than 10 feature films have been shot. This story lives on in thousands of stories about mermaids, sea maidens and water spirits who, by...

Golden cut, bookmark, excellent gift edition! Published in 1919 and based on a Burgundian tale, this book was also the inspiration for the opera by Dmitry Kabalevsky.

Stefan Zweig was enchanted with Mary Stuart, whose life he perceived as immensely paradoxical and from whom he perceived a ‘inexhaustible attraction of mystery.’ Thus, he investigated the queen of Scotland and Elizabeth I's fierce rival through the lens of a novelistic biography. Zweig is the undisputed master of this genre: he meticulously details the tumultuous life of this amazing woman, who...