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Fidelio: opéra en deux actes
By Ludwig Van Beethoven. 2006
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 synopsisTells the story of Lao Zi, the founder of Taoism who wrote the guiding principles of his philosophy while on…
his way to lead the life of a recluse. For grades K-3A lighthearted journey for Confucius (Zhongguo gu dai xian zhe)
By Si Ruo. 2017
The story behind Chinese New Year's eve
By Zhan Heng. 2015
Dianetica: a ciencia modern da saude mental
By L. Ron Hubbard. 1986
Dianetik: die moderne wissenschaft der geistigen gesundheit
By L. Ron Hubbard. 1990
A saga do cavalo indomado
By Maria Alice Barroso. 1988
Family saga of nineteenth-century Brazil centers on the wealthy Moura Alves family, dominated by patriarch Chico das Lavras, a simplistic…
but troubled ex-cowhand. His attractive, free-spirited daughter, Maria Olegaria, and his son, Ze Inacio, who is forced into seminary life, finally rebel against the tyranny and pious hypocrisy of their father. Portuguese languageEdgar: Erzählung
By Michael Donhauser. 1987
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 languageDer kürzeste Tag des Jahres: Erzählungen
By Gabriele Wohmann. 1984
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 languageSolidao em familia
By Esdras Do Nascimento. 1987
Essays, Reden, Briefe, Kommentare (Werkausgabe in zehn Banden / Gunter Grass #Bd. 9)
By Günter Grass. 1987
The collected essays, speeches, letters, and commentaries of the celebrated post-war German author. The writings, covering a thirty-year period from…
1956 to 1986, include Grass's political speeches in support of social democracy, his essays on art and artists, and other writings on various topics of contemporary interest. German languageGesprache mit Gunter Grass (Werkausgabe in zehn Banden / Gunter Grass #Bd. 10)
By Günter Grass. 1987
Leocadie Grafin Harleben-Jerotin, an eighteenth-century princess of Weimar now nearing the end of her eventful life, witnesses and participates in…
the complex political intrigue and turmoil that have plagued her native Prussia under the reign of Frederick the Great. German languageDas Treffen in Telgte: eine Erzahlung
By Günter Grass. 1979
At the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1647 a group of poets from all over Germany gather at…
the town of Telgte to strengthen the nation's poetry and language, which they see as the one last bond of a divided people. The author draws a parallel with post-World War II Germany, showing that, amid death and destruction, poetry lives on. German languageDie Rättin (Werkausgabe in zehn Banden / Gunter Grass #Bd. 7)
By Günter Grass. 1987
A satiric novel in the form of a reminiscence of Grass' life, his literary creations, German history, and human fate.…
In this framework a female rat engages the narrator in a series of dialogues convincingly demonstrating that the rats will inherit the earth. They will also, sadly, but inevitably, imitate the grotesque example set by human destructiveness throughout history. German language. German language. 1987Two works by the modern German author. In "Local Anaesthetic" a 40-year-old teacher releases his erotic fantasies. In "From the…
Diary of a Snail" a novelist examines his intellectual development. German languageKatz und Maus ; Hundejahre (Werkausgabe in zehn Banden / Gunter Grass #Bd. 3)
By Günter Grass. 1987
Two novels by the modern German writer. "Cat and Mouse" is a story of a teenager embarrassed by an enormous…
Adam's apple. "Dog Years" is a story of the friendship between a Jew and an Aryan. German language