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10 best books like Jew Süss (Lion Feuchtwanger): Possession, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, Wilhelm Tell, Undine, Der Sandmann, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, Professor Unrat, Rivers of London Vol. 1: Body Work, Irisches Tagebuch

Possession
AuthorA.S. Byatt
ISBN0679735909
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from...
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
AuthorWill Durant
ISBN0671739166
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...
Wilhelm Tell
AuthorFriedrich Schiller
ISBN 9783150000120 was later reused for Wilhelm Tell

Das 1804 erschienene und in Weimar – unter der Regie von Johann Wolfgang Goethe – uraufgeführte Blankvers-Drama Wilhelm Tell war Friedrich Schillers letztes und lange Zeit erfolgreichstes Stück. Das Geschichtsdrama spielt...
Undine
AuthorFriedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte Fouqué
"Most artistic of all the continental weird tales is the German classic Undine (1814), by Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte FouquE. In this story of a water-spirit who married a mortal and gained a human soul there is a delicate fineness of craftsmanship which makes it notable in any department...
Der Sandmann
AuthorE.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN3458326340
I read this rather (no very) creepy tale years ago, and while I truly enjoyed and above all appreciated E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I also do not much feel like a detailed and intense rereading at this time, as the plot, the thematics actually repeatedly produced some rather vivid and glaring nightmares...
Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times
AuthorMichael R. Beschloss
ISBN0307409600
From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America’s wartime chief executives

It sometimes seems, in retrospect, as if America has been almost continuously at war. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh,...
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
AuthorJoseph von Eichendorff
ISBN3150023548
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...
Professor Unrat
AuthorHeinrich Mann
ISBN3499100355
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...
Rivers of London Vol. 1: Body Work
AuthorBen Aaronovitch
Peter Grant looks look your average London police officer, but he is actually a part-time wizard in a very elite branch of the Metropolitan Police. It's his job to investigate those crimes that regular cops don't like to talk about because they often involve vampires or strange things in Underground...
Irisches Tagebuch
AuthorHeinrich Böll
ISBN3423000015
Als die "schönste Liebeserklärung an ein Land" wird das "Irische Tagebuch" von Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) oft bezeichnet. Das ist es in der Tat - und ist doch weit mehr. Anders als der Verliebte, dessen Blick sich nur auf Farbenfrohes, Sonnenbeschienenes richtet und Dunkel nicht wahrnimmt, braucht...
Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift
AuthorFranz Werfel
ISBN3596293081
Leonidas, aus kleinen Verhältnissen zum Sektionschef im Wiener Unterrichtsministerium aufgestiegen - nicht zuletzt durch die Ehe mit der reichsten Erbin der Stadt -, erhält im Herbst 1936 einen Brief von Vera Wormser. Die Tochter eines jüdischen Arztes, mit der er vor 18 Jahren, bald nach seiner...
Biedermann und die Brandstifter
AuthorMax Frisch
ISBN3518390457
Das Stück ist die Geschichte des Bürgers Gottlieb Biedermann, der die Brandstifter in sein Haus einlädt, um von ihnen verschont zu werden. Es entlarvt präzise eines Geisteshaltung, die der Technik des Totalitären zum Erfolg verhilft. Bidermann und die Brandstifter - eine politische Parabel,...
Returning to Reims
AuthorDidier Eribon
ISBN1584351233
On thinking the matter through, it doesn't seem exaggerated to assert that my coming out of the sexual closet, my desire to assume and assert my homosexuality, coincided within my personal trajectory with my shutting myself up inside what I might call a class closet. -- from "Returning to Reims"

After...
La Disparition de Josef Mengele
AuthorOlivier Guez
1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine.
Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l’ancien médecin tortionnaire à Auschwitz croit pouvoir s’inventer une nouvelle vie à Buenos Aires. L’Argentine de Peron est bienveillante, le monde entier veut oublier les crimes nazis. Mais la traque...
Krakatit
AuthorKarel Čapek
ISBN0685513386
Krakatit is a novel on the risks about the abuse of science for human gain. The hero is a chemist Mr. Prokop, who was able to produce exceptionally powerful explosive. He calls it "Krakatit," after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa. A special feature of Krakatit is that erupts seemingly without cause....
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
AuthorPaul Collier
ISBN0062748661
Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.

Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western...
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