The Minister's Wooing
8 best books like The Minister's Wooing (Harriet Beecher Stowe): Désirée, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Franz Kafka's The Castle (Dramatization), Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe, Don't Move, Twice Born, Voices in the Evening
| Author | Annemarie Selinko |
| ISBN | 8493388335 |
The stunning, massively bestselling story of Napoleon's first fiancé
First published in 1953, this riveting true-life tale comes to life in diary form, giving readers an inside glimpse at the young Napoleon and his family. Désirée is enchanted by the young officer, and he asks her to marry him....
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| ISBN | 0691043442 |
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...
Franz Kafka's The Castle (Dramatization)
There is a lot of talk about Kafka and nightmares – and with good reason. However, his nightmares are never quite what you might expect - expectations are always a problem when reading Kafka, firsst they get in the way and then they get dashed. In Metamorphosis there is the ‘yuck’ factor of the main...
| Author | James Hawes |
| ISBN | 0312376510 |
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka’s genius is...
| Author | François-René de Chateaubriand |
| ISBN | 0785911820 |
The only available edition in English of the greatest of all French autobiographies
By the time he came to write his extraordinary, highly entertaining memoirs, Chateaubriand had witnessed some of the iconic figures and events of French history—from the court of Louis XVI, to the reign...
| Author | Margaret Mazzantini |
| ISBN | 1400034663 |
Called to the hospital when his fifteen-year-old daughter, Angela, is injured in a potentially fatal accident, a prominent surgeon sits and waits, silently confessing the affair he had the year Angela was born. As Timoteo’s tale begins, he’s driving to the beach house where his beautiful, accomplished...
| Author | Margaret Mazzantini |
| ISBN | 0670022683 |
This international bestseller is a sweeping portrait of motherhood, loss, and redemption in war-torn Sarajevo.
Filled with memories of the four-year siege of Sarajevo, Gemma reluctantly boards a flight from her native Rome to that war-scarred city with her sixteen-year-old son, Pietro....
| Author | Natalia Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 1857547276 |
In a hushed Italian town after the Second World War, Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern to her mother, whose status anxiety manifests itself in acute hypochondria. But her mother does not know that Elsa has fallen in love...
