'Arc de Triomphe' is a poignant love story against all odds, love that brings pain, but also gives endless joy. The scene is Paris on the eve of World War II. The hero is a refugee from Germany, without documents, hiding from both the French and the Nazis

This astonishing, autobiographical tour de force was written by Hans Fallada in an encrypted notebook while he was incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum. Discovered after his death, it tells the tale—often fierce, often poignant, often extremely funny—of a small businessman losing control as he fights valiantly to blot out an increasingly oppressive society.

Veresaev's literary debut. An autobiographical book that was first published in 1901 - and immediately brought wide fame to the young author. The first steps of a freshly minted aesculapian starting his journey in the medical field. Good luck and bad luck. A painful fear of a mistake that could kill an innocent patient. Stress. Despair. Pride of success. Dangerous and morally questionable, but...

Miniature edition. White paper, large, legible font. Flipbook format, great for reading in the subway, on the bus, in a plane.

Returning to St Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, the gentle and naïve epileptic Prince Myshkin - known as the 'idiot' - pays a visit to his distant relative General Yepanchin and proceeds to charm the General and his family. But his life is thrown into turmoil when he chances on a photograph of the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna. Utterly infatuated, he soon finds himself caught up in a love...

Als »ein Volksstück und die Parodie dazu« bezeichnete Alfred Polgar Ödön von Horváths Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. Mit dem Kleist-Preis ausgezeichnet, wurde Horváths Volksstück 1931 an Max Reinhardts Deutschem Theater in Berlin unter der Regie von Heinz Hilpert uraufgeführt, »das bitterste, das bitterböseste Stück neuer Literatur«, wie Kurt Pinthus schrieb. In der New York Times war zu...

Йозеф Рот (1894—1939) - выдающийся австрийский писатель, классик мировой литературы ХХ века. Стефан Цвейг писал, что у Йозефа Рота «была русская натура, я сказал бы даже, карамазовская, это был человек больших страстей» и «ему были свойственны русская глубина чувств, русское истовое благочестие».«Марш Радецкого» - это история трех представителей семейства фон Тротта, преданных слуг...

Zweigs frühe Erzählung entstand 1913 und wurde noch im gleichen Jahr publiziert, erscheint hier aber in der von ihrem Autor überarbeiteten Fassung des Buchdrucks von 1925, die Zweig um zahlreiche, »aus seiner späteren Sicht offenbar allzu ›expressive‹ Passagen gekürzt« hat, so der Herausgeber Michael Scheffel. Die beklemmende Atmosphäre der Geschichte, in der die Hauptfigur von einer ihr...

The Stranger is the debut work of a young writer, a kind of creative manifesto. The concept of absolute freedom is the main postulate of this manifesto. The hero of this story is on trial for a murder he committed for the most stupid of all possible reasons. And this is the truth that the hero is not afraid to throw in the face of his judges, go against everything, forget about all conventions...