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Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts

10 best books like Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (Joseph von Eichendorff): Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Simplicissimus, Lieutenant Gustl, Henry von Ofterdingen, Wilhelm Tell, Der zerbrochne Krug, Indian Summer, Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte, Der Schimmelreiter, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
AuthorJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
ISBN0691043442
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, a novel of self-realization greatly admired by the Romantics, has been called the first Bildungsroman and has had a tremendous influence on the history of the German novel. The story centers on Wilhelm, a young man living in the mid-1700s who strives to break free...
Simplicissimus
AuthorHans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
ISBN1903517427
This gaudy, wild, and raw tale of a war-torn 17th Century Europe depicts Simplicissimus as the eternal innocent, the simple-minded survivor. We follow him from an orphaned childhood to the casual atrocities of occupying troops, through his own soldiering adventures, and up to his final vocation...
Lieutenant Gustl
AuthorArthur Schnitzler
ISBN1557131767
Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the century and the impending collapse of the dream of the empire. Bored at the opera, egocentric young Lieutenant Gustl contemplates which women are flirting with him; the fact that there are too many Jews in the...
Henry von Ofterdingen
AuthorNovalis
ISBN0881335746
Strange and ingenious, this extraordinary fusion of novel, fairy tale, and poem, published posthumously in 1802, is the most representative work of early German Romanticism. It reflects, in part, events in the life of its author, who is best known for his "Hymns to the Night". Young Henry, a medieval...
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...
Der zerbrochne Krug
AuthorHeinrich von Kleist
ISBN3150000912
Die Uraufführung von Heinrich von Kleists Lustspiel Der zerbrochne Krug, die unter der Leitung von Johann Wolfgang Goethe 1808 am Hoftheater in Weimar stattfand, wurde zu einem Misserfolg; erst von 1820 an eroberte das Stück die Bühnen. Der zerbrochne Krug ist das Lustspiel vom Dorfrichter Adam,...
Indian Summer
AuthorAdalbert Stifter
ISBN3906763730
This is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron's own reminiscences which...
Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte
AuthorAdelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamissos 1814 erschienene phantastische Erzählung 'Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte' handelt von einem sanften, weltfremden Jüngling, der einem rätselhaften Mann in einem grauen Rock seinen Schatten verkauft. Er ist jedoch außerstande, den so erworbenen Reichtum...
Der Schimmelreiter
AuthorTheodor Storm
I´ve read the book “Der Schimmelreiter” written by Theodor Storm, and plays in North Friesland. Storm illustrates the typical life at the North Sea Coast, which was in the past a permanent fight against the unpredictability of our nature. It´s a fact that the life at the coast gives barely any...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
AuthorE.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN0140446311
It was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr, perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century.....
The Stechlin
AuthorTheodor Fontane
ISBN1571130241
Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. The Stechlin is Fontane's last book and his political testament....
Lenz
AuthorGeorg Büchner
ISBN0974968021
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,...
Thomas Of Reading
AuthorThomas Deloney
ISBN0854170928
Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...
Anton Reiser
AuthorKarl Philipp Moritz
ISBN0140446095
Well received in its own day and all but forgotten in the last century, Anton Reiser (1785) has regained in our times the popular attention it richly merits. Subtitled a "psychological novel" by its author, who also called it a biography, the work is actually a highly authentic autobiography. The work...
Green Henry
AuthorGottfried Keller
ISBN1585674273
"Green Henry" is a vivid and absorbing representation of Gottfried Keller's ideals and philosophy, written in poetic language and a realistic style that documents the emergence of an artist and the development of a man. Partly autobiographical, the narrative recounts the experiences of the title...
Couples, Passersby
AuthorBotho Strauß
ISBN0810112426
In Couples, Passersby, the controversial German writer Botho Strauss deftly combines the fantastic and the mundane to depict a society in which people pair off only to find greater isolation and alienation. In Strauss's world, love turns not to hate but to indifference, and lovers fade into strangers,...
Pavel's Letters
AuthorMonika Maron
Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.

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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
AuthorArnold Zweig
ISBN1585673358
During the late 20's many of those who experienced World War I wrote semi-autobiographical novels. One of them was Arnold Zweig (1887-1968), a German writer, anti-war and anti-fascist activist. He is known for his six-part cycle on World War I called The Great War of the White Men and the first part of...
Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen
AuthorHeinrich Heine
ISBN3938484144
Heine war davon überzeugt, daß er mit seinem "Werkchen" Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen etwas verfaßt hatte, das "mehr Furore machen wird, als die populärste Broschüre, und das dennoch den bleibenden Wert einer klassischen Dichtung haben wird". Recht hatte er. Mit seinem Versepos sollte...
Der Untertan
AuthorHeinrich Mann
ISBN3596136407
"Hurraahhhh!!! Da kommt der Kaiser!!!" Diederich Heßling, ein ewig deutsches Thema. Kurt Tucholsky brachte es wie immer auf den Punkt, als er Heinrich Manns Roman über den Aufstieg eines Erzopportunisten als "Herbarium des deutschen Mannes" bezeichnete. "Hier ist er ganz -- in seiner Religiosität,...
Halbzeit
AuthorMartin Walser
ISBN3518365940
Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...
Pallieter
AuthorFelix Timmermans
ISBN3458331301
Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...
The Trials of Persiles and Sigismunda: A Northern Story
AuthorMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
ISBN0520063155
So this is a love story supposedly, with innumerable sup-plots. Every time a new character shows up we get yet another tangent. Whats odd is that not only do the actual characters get bored with some of the sub-stories but the author apologises to the reader at least ten times about how repetitive it can...
Death in Rome
AuthorWolfgang Koeppen
ISBN1862075891
In Rome, four members of a German family are reunited by chance. A young composer, Siegfried; his estranged father, Freidrich, who held office under the Nazis and is once more making his way in public life, this time as a democratically elected buromaster; Siegfried's uncle, Judejahn, a unrepentant...
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