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Dietrich Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

8 best books like Dietrich Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives (Karin Wieland): The Day of the Owl, The Trial of Lizzie Borden, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, The Sound of the Mountain, An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm, My Life in Middlemarch, Vita Sexualis, The Householder

The Day of the Owl
AuthorLeonardo Sciascia
A man is shot dead as he runs to catch the bus in the piazza of a small Sicilian town. Captain Bellodi, the detective on the case, is new to his job and determined to prove himself. Bellodi suspects the Mafia, and his suspicions grow when he finds himself up against an apparently unbreachable wall of silence....
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
AuthorCara Robertson
ISBN1501168371
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
AuthorHallie Rubenhold
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,...
The Sound of the Mountain
AuthorYasunari Kawabata
ISBN0679762647
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Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive...
An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm
AuthorHannah Pakula
ISBN0684842165
A truly masterful book. Pakula pulls together everything from social theory to medical history to thousands of letters to create a portrait of the Empress Dowager Frederick. The first born and cleverest child of Queen Victoria, Vicky married the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick. Theirs was a truly...
My Life in Middlemarch
AuthorRebecca Mead
ISBN0307984761
A New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories.

Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town...
Vita Sexualis
AuthorŌgai Mori
ISBN0804810486
Though banned three weeks after its publication in 1909, Vita Sexualis is far more than a prurient erotic novel. The narrator, a professor of philosophy, wrestles with issues of sexual desire, sex education, and the proper place of sensuality. He tells the story of his own journey into sexual awareness,...
The Householder
AuthorRuth Prawer Jhabvala
ISBN0393008517

According to the synopsis of this novel on Goodreads – this is a witty novel. There is certainly a kind of bittersweet comedic quality to some of it – but I’m not sure I’d call it witty exactly. I’m just being pedantic perhaps – for me, while The Householder is a comedy of manners – I found...
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