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10 best books like Threepenny Novel (Bertolt Brecht): Simplicissimus, Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote, Old Masters: A Comedy, Henry von Ofterdingen, Penthesilea: A Tragic Drama, The Last Days of Mankind, Indian Summer, The Safety Net, The Stechlin, Anton Reiser

Simplicissimus
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...
Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote
AuthorDoris Stevens
ISBN0939165252
A firsthand account of the National Woman’s Party, which organized and fought a fierce battle for passage of the 19th Amendment. The suffragists endured hunger strikes, forced feedings, and jail terms. First written in 1920 by Doris Stevens, this version was edited by Carol O’Hare. Includes...
Old Masters: A Comedy
AuthorThomas Bernhard
ISBN0226043916
Old Masters (subtitled A Comedy) is a novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, which was first published in 1985. It tells of the life and opinions of Reger, a 'musical philosopher', through the voice of his acquaintance Atzbacher, a 'private academic'.
The book is set in Vienna on one day around...
Henry von Ofterdingen
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...
The Last Days of Mankind
AuthorKarl Kraus
ISBN0804463662
Kraus' masterpiece is generally considered to be the massive satirical play about the First World War, which combines dialogue from contemporary documents with apocalyptic fantasy and commentary from two characters called "the Grumbler" and "the Optimist". Kraus began to write the play in 1915...
Indian Summer
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 Safety Net
AuthorHeinrich Böll
ISBN0349103518
Although Fritz Tolm and his wife Käthe play a representative role in established society, their sympathies are often on the side of their children and their friends. The Tolm family, for example, abandons the most difficult problem to the enormously bloated police apparatus, depending on whether...
The Stechlin
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....
Anton Reiser
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...
Miss Sara Sampson
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN3150000165
Mit dem 1755 erschienenen und uraufgeführten Drama ''Miss Sara Sampson'' schuf Gotthold Ephraim Lessing das erste bedeutende deutsche "bürgerliche Trauerspiel", in dem nicht mehr die großen "Haupt- und Staatsaktionen", sondern Schicksale von Menschen aus dem "Mittelstand", aus Bürgertum...
Couples, Passersby
AuthorBotho Strauß
ISBN0810112426
In Couples, Passersby, the controversial German writer Botho Strauss deftly combines the fantastic and the mundane to depict a society in which people pair off only to find greater isolation and alienation. In Strauss's world, love turns not to hate but to indifference, and lovers fade into strangers,...
Pavel's Letters
AuthorMonika Maron
Teasing her family's past out of the fog of oblivion and lies, one of Germany's greatest writers asks about the secrets families keep, about the fortitude of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, and about what becomes of the individual mind when the powers that be turn against it.

Born...
Professor Unrat
AuthorHeinrich Mann
ISBN3499100355
Der vorliegende Roman gilt neben Heinrich Manns Werk "Die kleine Stadt" als eine der besten Schöpfungen aus der Frühzeit des Dichters. Er erschien erstmalig im Jahre 1905 und schildert die makabre Geschichte eines professoralen Gymnasiastenschrecks, einer Spießerexistenz, die in später...
The Case of Sergeant Grischa
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...
Jahrestage
AuthorUwe Johnson
ISBN3518397206
Die Johnson-Forschung befindet sich seit jeher in einem Dilemma: Kaum ein Schriftsteller muss so hart darum kämpfen, dass seine fiktionale Prosa nicht gleichsam durch die ihr immanente Faktizität erdrückt wird. Eifrige Indiziensucher spüren Orte und Namen in Mecklenburg auf, wandeln auf...
Songs from the Gallows: Galgenlieder
AuthorChristian Morgenstern
ISBN0300052782
Antologie z rozsáhlého, dnes již klasického souboru groteskně laděných veršů německého básníka.
Morgenstern ve své nejslavnější sbírce potvrzuje pověst zakladatele německé nonsensové poezie. Jeho verše, většinou komponované v pravidelné rýmové poloze,...
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...
Death in Rome
AuthorWolfgang Koeppen
ISBN1862075891
In Rome, four members of a German family are reunited by chance. A young composer, Siegfried; his estranged father, Freidrich, who held office under the Nazis and is once more making his way in public life, this time as a democratically elected buromaster; Siegfried's uncle, Judejahn, a unrepentant...
Tristan
AuthorThomas Mann
ISBN3150064317

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...
Patterns of Childhood
AuthorChrista Wolf
ISBN0374518440
I cried while reading this novel. Tears just kept flowing silently, and there was nothing I could do about it.

If you want to know what totalitarian states do to children, this novel will tell you, - without sentimentality, without blame or anger, without self-pity.

For all those emotions...
نجمة أغسطس
Authorصنع الله إبراهيم
نجمة أغسطس" هي ثاني أعمال كاتب مصر الكبير "صنع الله إبراهيم" الروائية، وأكثر تلك الأعمال فنية وتجريبا، بل هي تجربة فريدة كانت جديرة - لو قدر لها أن تبلغ غايتها...
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
AuthorIda B. Wells-Barnett
ISBN1409916049
Ida Bell Wells, later Wells-Barnett (1862-1931), was an African American civil rights advocate and an early women's rights advocate active in the Woman Suffrage Movement. Fearless in her opposition to lynchings, Wells documented hundreds of these atrocities. Wells became a public figure in Memphis...
The Parable Of The Blind
AuthorGert Hofmann
ISBN0880641134
Inspired by Parabel der Blinden (1568), a painting by Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel, the novel tells the story of the work's creation from the point of view of the six blind men depicted in the painting. The story is recounted in the present tense, first person plural. The "we" that comprises the...
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