Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province

Author

Ovid

Prized through the ages for its splendor and its savage, sophisticated wit, The Metamorphoses is a masterpiece of Western culture--the first attempt to link all the Greek myths, before and after Homer, in a cohesive whole, to the Roman myths of Ovid's day. Horace Gregory, in this modern translation,...

Author

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Möbius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefährliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft und Politik verhindern und täuscht darum vor, geisteskrank zu sein, damit er in einer Klinik verschwinden und die gewünschte Kooperation (oder Kollaboration) mit der Macht boykottieren...

Author	Klaus Mann
ISBN	0140189181

Klaus Mann - Thomas Mann’s son - wrote MEPHISTO while living in exile from the Germany of World War II. In it he captures the Isherwood-like atmosphere of Nazi Germany while telling a satiric story about the rise to power of one man - a thinly veiled caricature of his own brother-in-law. The man is Hendrik...

Author	Robert Nozick
ISBN	0691020965

Repeatedly and successfully, the celebrated Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick has reached out to a broad audience beyond the confines of his discipline, addressing ethical and social problems that matter to every thoughtful person. Here Nozick continues his search for the connections between...

Author	Gris Grimly
ISBN	0972938877

Grade level: 2nd-4th

Summary: Nursery Rhymes that are a little twisted with kid friendly spooky and gross illustrations.

Review: This book is one I would only really recommend for the more mature students in a class. It does have somethings that I guess might be considered scary for...

Author	Thomas Mann
ISBN	3150064317

The Magic Mountain in a nutshell

This short novella, that Thomas Mann wrote at the tender age of twenty-seven, already contains quite a few themes from his later "big" work.

In both cases...

... the story takes place in a remote sanatorium for lung diseases;
... different...

Author

Nino Haratischwili

Alexander Orlow, ein russischer Oligarch und von allen »Der General« genannt, hat ein neues Leben in Berlin begonnen. Doch die Erinnerungen an seinen Einsatz im Ersten Tschetschenienkrieg lassen ihn nicht los. Die dunkelste ist jene an die grausamste aller Nächte, nach der von der jungen Tschetschenin...