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Livret accompagné d'un texte qui relate la genèse de l'unique opéra de Beethoven, de commentaires de Berlioz et de Furtwängler,…
d'un essai sur la mise en scène, de textes qui font écho au message de l'oeuvre et d'un synopsis
Co-written by Eric Walters and Godfrey Nkongolo, Light a Candle weaves non-fiction with fiction to tell the story of a…
boy coming of age in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro and his father, the chief of their tribe. The boy climbs the mountain against his father’s wishes to fulfill a request of the country’s first leader, Julius Nyerere, to light a candle on the top of the mountain and unify the mainland of Tanganyika and the islands of Zanzibar as one country, the United Republic of Tanzania.
In this gothic novel, Martha Leigh, an attractive, young English governess, takes charge of the motherless child of the handsome,…
enigmatic master of a sinister mansion in Cornwall. She discovers her pupil's mother was murdered and that she is in danger of the same fate. German language
An average, middle-aged couple must come to terms with the generation gap. Their daughter belongs to a radical political group,…
and their parents are alienated by changing social values. German language
Anthology of German legends and fairy tales including the well-known stories about the fisherman and his wife, the ghost in…
the glass, the dancing shoes, the singing mermaid, the glass mountain, and many others. German language. 1979
Four men and two women survive a plane crash in the uninhabited Siberian taiga two weeks before the onset of…
winter. Destined to share the same fate, they undergo an ordeal of physical survival and interpersonal conflicts. German language
The story of a friendship between two cousins growing up in rural Lichtenstein is narrated by Georg, the younger of…
two, who idolizes the older, rough-hewn Edgar. Georg describes their lives from their Boy Scout beginnings up to maturity, when the gradual loss of innocence sends the two in different directions. German language
The fear of death and the alienation that dying causes influences the people in these nineteen short stories by the…
German author. In a variety of everyday situations, people suddenly find themselves having to come to terms with human mortality. In the title story, it is the shortest day of the year, and a man keeps asking his wife over and over again what day it is. German language
German-born actress Marlene Dietrich writes about her life and acting career in Europe and America. She also reminisces on events…
and acquaintances and sets the record straight about the controversies and notoriety that have surrounded her life. German language
Daniel Haid, a thirty-eight-year-old bookstore owner in Vienna, seeks a change from a routine, boring existence by visiting friends in…
the United States. He finds himself in a labyrinth of strange experiences, inexplicably playing the role of a famous fictional detective. A novel of psychological development with the elements of a mystery story. German language
A young, lonely widower purchases and settles on a small, peaceful island in the Pacific. His quiet existence is shattered…
when three men try to kill him and he becomes involved with a beautiful young woman in a search for Inca treasure. German language
Historical account of the author's family from its roots in eighteenth-century Africa to slavery in Virginia. Continues with the family's…
resettlement in Tennessee following the Civil War. Bestseller 1974. German language
A distraught widow finds an insurance salesman posing as her dead husband. Detective Kottan is called in to investigate and…
uncovers a criminal scheme involving prominent underworld figures of Vienna. German language