Weltliteratur & Klassiker

Searchers

Glenn Frankel

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

The story begins when a mysterious sea monster, theorized by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner is also damaged by the creature. The United States g...

120 Days of Sodom

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. ...

Christmas Carol

Here is the original Christmas classic that is often credited with returning the true spirit of Christmas to the holiday. This edition features the original interior artwork by John Leech. Come sp...

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love is one of the most admired novels in world literature. Generations of readers have been enthralled by his magnificent heroine, the unhappily married ...

Daisy Miller

Here is Henry James classic masterpiece, Daisy Miller. Daisy is a youthful, exuberant American girl vacationing in Europe. She typifies the brashness of America that clashes with the European soci...

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the stor...

Justine

Justine was an early work of Marquis de Sade, written while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. It contains relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing. Napoleon Bonapa...

Manalive

In Manalive we follow the madcap adventure of Innocent Smith. Innocent Smith is a man who keeps the commandments but breaks all the conventions, and while doing so he shows us just how absurd thos...

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of ...

Odisea (Con Ilustraciones de John Flaxman)

La Odisea es un poema épico griego compuesto por 24 cantos, atribuido al poeta griego Homero. Se cree que fue escrito en el siglo VIII a. C., en los asentamientos que Grecia tenía en la costa oe...

Die Judenbuche

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Unter einer Buche im Wald wird der jüdische Händler Aaron tot aufgefunden. Verdächtig verhält sich der labile und sozial auffällige Friedrich Mergel … Die Kriminalgeschichte um den jungen F...

Ginster

Siegfried Kracauer

<P>Ein »Drückeberger« als Held: Ginster ist 25, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht, ein begabter Frankfurter Architekt. Der patriotischen Begeisterung seiner Zeitgenossen steht er skeptisc...

The Complete Works of the Brontë Family (Anne, Charlotte, Emily, Branwell and Patrick Brontë)

Charlotte Brontë / Emily Brontë / Anne Brontë

This carefully crafted collection of the works of Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë includes the following novels: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1847 Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, p...

Die großen Erzählungen

Stefan Zweig

"Vielleicht ist seit den Tagen des Erasmus ... kein Schriftsteller mehr so berühmt gewesen wie Stefan Zweig"? notierte Thomas Mann anlässlich von Zweigs zehntem Todestag im Jahr 1952. Re...

Beowulf

Um 800 n. Chr. entstand das rund 3000 Stabreimverse lange Epos um den Helden Beowulf, der erst das Ungeheuer Grendel tötet, dann dessen Mutter, und im Kampf gegen einen furchtbaren Drachen den To...

Die großen Erzählungen

Stefan Zweig

"Vielleicht ist seit den Tagen des Erasmus ... kein Schriftsteller mehr so berühmt gewesen wie Stefan Zweig"? notierte Thomas Mann anlässlich von Zweigs zehntem Todestag im Jahr 1952. Re...

Sleeping With Gypsies

Ginny MacKenzie

The Jacobite Grenadier

Gavin Wood

August 1745. Charles Edward Stuart makes an audacious bid to win the throne of Scotland that is rightfully his. Thousands of noble Highland clansmen rally to his standard. A small number of Lowlan...

Flowers in Great Profusion

Wendy Moser

It is spring of 1905 in the northern woods of Iowa. As night falls slowly outside a pretty little farmhouse, seven children take refuge on the porch. Inside, their mother, Mary, is dying. Her husb...