Das Käthchen von Heilbronn
10 best books like Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (Heinrich von Kleist): The Tin Drum, Amerika, Aesop's Fables, Mother Courage and Her Children, Frau Jenny Treibel, Emilia Galotti, Lenz, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, Die Judenbuche, Minna von Barnhelm
| Author | Günter Grass |
| ISBN | 0099483505 |
I had an intense reaction to this book. I friggin hated it. Or, rather, I loved to hate it, while I was reading it. It was an assignment in a Postmodern Lit. class, and everyone in the class liked the protagonist but me. I thought he was awful. I couldn't believe they enjoyed him, much less admitted to enjoying...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 0805210644 |
Kafka's first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself "packed off to America" by his parents. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind...
| Author | Aesop |
| ISBN | 0192840509 |
Aesop's Fables or Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620-560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables, usually involving anthropomorphic animals. Many stories included in Aesop's...
Mother Courage and Her Children
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her Children" is Bertolt Brecht's most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling -- "Mother Courage" -- an itinerant trader, as she pulls...
| Author | Theodor Fontane |
| ISBN | 3150076358 |
In seinem satirisch-humorvollen Gesellschaftsroman "Frau ]enny Treibel", der 1892 veröffentlicht wurde, entlarvt Fontane die Hauptfiguren in ihren egoistischen Intrigen deutlich genug als sentimental, dünkelhaft oder bieder-pragmatisch. Dennoch kann man schmunzelnd Sympathie gegenüber...
| Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| ISBN | 3150000459 |
Mit dem 1772 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama Emilia Galotti schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing eines der bedeutendsten Beispiele für die Gattung des bürgerlichen Trauerspiels. Das Stück, das zu den Schlüsselwerken der Aufklärung und Empfindsamkeit gehört sowie als eines der ersten...
| Author | Georg Büchner |
| ISBN | 0974968021 |
Lenz, Georg Büchner’s visionary exploration of an 18th century playwright’s descent into madness, grew in part out of Alsatian pastor Johann Oberlin’s journal, which is translated here in its entirety for the first time. Lenz is a dispassionate account on the nervous system of a schizophrenic,...
| Author | Joseph von Eichendorff |
| ISBN | 3150023548 |
Good-for-nothing is how the author referred to his male protagonist in the story. Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857) chose not to give a name to his character maybe because he would like us all to relate to his character. I easily was able to. At the beginning of the novel, Good-for-nothing removed all...
| Author | Annette von Droste-Hülshoff |
Der 1842 erschienenen Novelle Die Judenbuche von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff liegt eine wahre Begebenheit zugrunde. Es ist die Geschichte des aus verarmten Verhältnissen stammenden Friedrich Mergel, dessen Mord an dem Juden Aaron erst Jahrzehnte nach der Tat aufgedeckt werden kann. Das große...
| Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| ISBN | 3150000106 |
Dieses Büchlein hat mich bestens unterhalten und vergnügt. Vor allem die Nebenfiguren wie Franziska, Werner, Just und sogar der Wirt amüsierten mich und sind in meinen Augen die reizvollsten Charaktere in diesem Lustspiel. Sie verfügen über eine ungeheure Portion Witz und Scharfsinn, die...
