Dr. Jakob Fabian, Germanist und Reklametexter, lässt sich durch das Berlin der »Goldenen Zwanziger« treiben. Er wirft sich in erotische Abenteuer, trinkt mit Journalisten um die Wette und versucht, im Labyrinth der Großstadt seine Integrität und seine Ideale zu behaupten. Doch die Stadt windet sich wie in einem Fiebertraum; die junge Demokratie der Weimarer Republik wird mehr und mehr in ihren...

В книгу вошли два самых известных романа американского писателя Марка Твена 'Приключения Тома Сойера' и 'Приключения Гекльберри Финна'. Историями о приключениях двух отчаянных и непослушных мальчишек вот уже почти два века зачитываются мальчишки и девчонки. Том и Гек – два хороших друга. Правда, дружить им запрещают, ведь Гек – бродяга, с ним благовоспитанным детям даже разговаривать нельзя. Но...

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...

В книге представлены тексты разных жанров, взятые из периодической печати. Темы сгруппированы по их социальной значимости, начиная с вопросов, актуальных для отдельного индивида, затем семьи, общества и заканчивая глобальными проблемами.

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...

Michael Hofmann's startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka's great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with light in this highly charged and enormously nuanced translation. Kafka began the first of his three novels in 1911, but like the others, Amerika remained unfinished, and perhaps, as Klaus Mann suggested,...

Animals, strange beasts, bureaucrats, businessmen, and nightmares populate this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. These matchless short works, all unpublished during Kafka’s lifetime, range from the gleeful dialogue between a cat and a mouse in ‘Little Fable’ to the absurd humor of ‘Investigations of a Dog,’ from the elaborate waking nightmare of ‘Building the Great Wall of China’ to the...