Schloß Gripsholm
9 best books like Schloß Gripsholm (Kurt Tucholsky): Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company, Hotel Savoy, The Corner That Held Them, Fabian: Die Geschichte eines Moralisten, Professor Unrat, The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness, Picture, Un roi sans divertissement, Basic Black with Pearls
Max Havelaar, or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
| Author | Multatuli |
| ISBN | 0140445161 |
Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted on the native peoples by the colonial administration. Max is an inspirational figure, but he is also a flawed idealist whose vow to protect the Javanese from cruelty ends in...
| Author | Joseph Roth |
| ISBN | 1585674478 |
Still bearing the scars from gulag experiences, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets there a surreal cast of characters, each eagerly awaiting the return from America of a rich man named Bloomfield. Like Europe itself in 1932, the hotel...
| Author | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey...
Fabian: Die Geschichte eines Moralisten
| Author | Erich Kästner |
| ISBN | 3423110066 |
Erich Kästner kennen viele nur als Autor von Kinder- und Jugendbüchern. Dass er auch zeitkritische Romane geschrieben hat, wissen die wenigsten. Der Roman Fabian entstand 1931 und beschreibt den moralischen und geistigen Verfall inmitten schwieriger politischer Verhältnisse. Für Kästner...
| Author | Heinrich Mann |
| ISBN | 3499100355 |
Der vorliegende Roman gilt neben Heinrich Manns Werk "Die kleine Stadt" als eine der besten Schöpfungen aus der Frühzeit des Dichters. Er erschien erstmalig im Jahre 1905 und schildert die makabre Geschichte eines professoralen Gymnasiastenschrecks, einer Spießerexistenz, die in später...
| Author | Walter Benjamin |
| ISBN | 1784783048 |
A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories
The Storyteller gathers for the first time the fiction of the legendary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin, best known for his groundbreaking studies of culture and literature, including Illuminations, One-Way Street...
| Author | Lillian Ross |
| ISBN | 0306811286 |
In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture industry." What...
Un roi sans divertissement
| Author | Jean Giono |
| ISBN | 2070362205 |
"Le livre est parti parfaitement au hasard, sans aucun personnage. Le personnage était l'Arbre, le Hêtre. Le départ, brusquement, c'est la découverte d'un crime, d'un cadavre qui se trouva dans les branches de cet arbre. Il y a eu d'abord l'Arbre, puis la victime, nous avons commencé par un être...
| Author | Helen Weinzweig |
| ISBN | 1487000472 |
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.
In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and...
