The Poems of Georg Trakl

Author	Samuel Beckett
ISBN	0802150373

'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in 1938; Beckett himself subsequently translated the book into French, and it was published in France in 1947. The novel recounts the hilarious but tragic life of Murphy in London as he attempts to establish...

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Ezra Pound

If the invention of literary modernism is usually attributed to James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, it was Pound alone who provided (in Hugh Kenner's words) "the synergetic presence" to convert individual experiment into an international movement. In 1926 Pound carefully sculpted his body of...

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Theodor Storm

I´ve read the book “Der Schimmelreiter” written by Theodor Storm, and plays in North Friesland. Storm illustrates the typical life at the North Sea Coast, which was in the past a permanent fight against the unpredictability of our nature. It´s a fact that the life at the coast gives barely any...

Author	Plato
ISBN	0192839535

The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the...

Author	Plato
ISBN	1853991325

Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual, the man who professes to know nothing fares better...

Author	Alfred Andersch
ISBN	3257200552

In einer kleinen Stadt an der Ostsee treffen zufällig sechs Gestalten zusammen: ›Der Junge‹; Gregor, der KPD-Funktionär; Judith, die Jüdin; am Ort selbst befinden sich der Pfarrer Helander; Knudsen, der Fischer und Kutterbesitzer; als letzter die Holzplastik des ›Lesenden Klosterschülers‹....

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...