Green Henry

10 best books like Green Henry (Gottfried Keller): Camera Obscura, Simplicissimus, Lieutenant Gustl, Henry von Ofterdingen, Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama, Indian Summer, The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr, The Stechlin, Thomas Of Reading, Pepita Jiménez

AuthorHildebrand
ISBN9025320376
Title: La chambre obscure

Author: Nicolaas Beets

Translator: Léon Wocquier

Release Date: October 14, 2015 [EBook #50211]

Language: French

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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...
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...
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...
Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama
AuthorHeinrich von Kleist
ISBN0060956321
An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies into a terrified alliance. When Achilles, the pride and...
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...
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.....
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....
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...
AuthorJuan Valera
ISBN9871136145
La obra de Juan Valera en general y Pepita Jiménez , en particular, ha sido considerada por la crítica como una anomalía dentro de las etapas que marcan el desarrollo de la historia de la literatura española, ni romántica, ni realista, la ya clásica novela del escritor cordobés asoma como una...
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...
AuthorWolfgang Koeppen
ISBN0393049027
Brilliant. Four-and-a-half stars. How I subcutaneously shivered with each recognition of a Keetenheuve who was me and/or that from within me which constituted a part of Keetenheuve: solipsistic self-absorption resonating in the Key of I Minor, the ego as it's shown inside the other. No matter the...
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...
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...
AuthorJakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
ISBN3150013763
Mit Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz' 1774 anonym erschienenem Sturm-und-Drang-Drama Der Hofmeister oder Vorteile der Privaterziehung beginnt das sozialkritische Milieudrama in Deutschland, das über Büchner und Wedekind zu Bertolt Brecht führt. In der Handlung um den Hofmeister Läuffer,...
AuthorJeremias Gotthelf
ISBN3150064899
Die schwarze Spinne (erschienen 1842) ist die berühmteste Novelle Jeremias Gotthelfs und ein Meisterwerk der Erzählliteratur des Biedermeier. In der kunstvoll aufgebauten Novelle mit ihrer komplexen Erzählstruktur wird eine Geschichte um Gottlosigkeit und Aberglauben erzählt. In zwei...
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...
AuthorErskine Caldwell
A ridiculously overheated melodrama set on a decaying southern plantation, featuring a prideful, spoiled young "aristocrat", his mother who encourages him in those traits, his neglected, weepy wife, their downtrodden servants and field hands, a "modern" cousin, an earthy lower-class tenant......
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...
AuthorHermann Broch
ISBN0810160781
Murder, lust, shame, hypocrisy, and suicide are at the center of The Guiltless, Hermann Broch's novel about the disintegration of European society in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Broch's characters—an apathetic man who can barely remember his own name (Broch mostly refers...
Amadis of Gaul
AuthorGarci Rodríguez de Montalvo
ISBN1146644310
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part...
The Lion of Flanders
AuthorHendrik Conscience
ISBN1410103927
Came across this on the Boxall 1000 list. An interesting story about a fascinating period of history that I knew next to nothing about.

Parts of the book were better than others. The dialogue at times felt very forced and laboured and in some parts downright syrupy and melodramatic. Strangely...
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