Spazieren In Berlin
9 best books like Spazieren In Berlin (Franz Hessel): Berlin Alexanderplatz, News From Tartary, The Long Take, Storie di libri perduti, La morte della farfalla, El cuarto de atrás, A Book of Travellers' Tales, The Little Virtues, Things I Don't Want to Know
| Author | Alfred Döblin |
| ISBN | 3423002956 |
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
| Author | Peter Fleming |
| ISBN | 1843410036 |
In 1935 Peter Fleming, an editor for the London Times and, interestingly, Ian Fleming's older brother, set out from Peking for Kashmir. It was a 3500 mile journey across the roof of the world. He chose as his traveling companion Ella Maillart, a beautiful Swiss journalist. Fleming is one to underemphasize...
| Author | Robin Robertson |
| ISBN | 1509846883 |
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy landings and subsequent European operations. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and unable to face a return to his family home in rural Nova Scotia, he goes in search of freedom, change, anonymity...
| Author | Giorgio Van Straten |
| ISBN | 8858123263 |
Questo libro racconta la storia di libri che c'erano e non ci sono più. I libri perduti non sono libri dimenticati oppure libri pensati dall'autore e mai nati. Sono quelli che l'autore ha scritto, che qualcuno ha visto, magari ha anche letto, e che poi sono stati distrutti o dei quali non si è saputo più...
Zelda Sayre nasce nell'aprile dell'anno 1900. Nel luglio del 1918, a una festa da ballo in cui è contesa da cavalieri come la più corteggiata fanciulla d'Alabama, conosce un giovane ufficiale: Francis Scott Fitzgerald. È un amore totale, geloso e tormentato fin da principio. I due si sposeranno...
| Author | Carmen Martín Gaite |
| ISBN | 8423311015 |
Durante una noche de insomnio, la escritora recibe la visita de un desconocido interlocutor cuya identidad permanecerá oculta en todo momento... Los recuerdos de infancia y juventud en Salamanca se irán mezclando con sus reflexiones sobre los sueños, el amor, la escritura o la memoria. «El cuarto...
A Book of Travellers' Tales
| Author | Eric Newby |
| ISBN | 0140107401 |
I picked up this book in a family-owned book shop in small corner of Huon Valley in Tasmania. I bought it because it's cheap, thick and about travelling which I love. It turned out to be awesome. It includes all small paragraphs and writings from travellers through out the history, across the continents....
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 1559700289 |
"As far as the education of children is concerned," states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, "I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt...
Things I Don't Want to Know
| Author | Deborah Levy |
| ISBN | 1907903631 |
Marketed as a feminist response to Orwell’s “Why I Write,” Things I Don’t Want to Know tracks how a soft-spoken girl became a prolific writer. Across four fast-moving sections, novelist Deborah Levy recounts her childhood spent in South Africa at the height of apartheid, with her father incarcerated...
