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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 synopsisDianetik: die moderne wissenschaft der geistigen gesundheit
By L. Ron Hubbard. 1990
Edgar: 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 languageEssays, 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 languageKopfgeburten, oder, Die Deutschen sterben aus
By Günter Grass. 1980
A mixed-up German couple on vacation in Asia ponders the political situation back home and agonizes over the pros and…
cons of having a baby. A satire of the German character contrasting Germany's shrinking population with the teemming billions of the Third World. German languageDie Blechtrommel: Roman (Werkausgabe in zehn Bänden / Günter Grass #Bd. 2)
By Günter Grass. 1987
By the German novelist, this story of twentieth-century Germany is told by a dwarf who deliberately stopped growing when he…
was three years old. With the use of his tin drum, he has total recall of the past, from before World War II through the post-war economic boom. German languageDie unendliche Geschichte: von A bis Z
By Michael Ende. 1979
A pudgy, lonely, motherless schoolboy enters the magical world of Fantasiana when he steals a beautifully bound book and begins…
"The Neverending Story." As he follows the marvelous adventures of the exotic creatures, he learns that only a human can save this kingdom and that he must enter the story to help them and himself. German languageAmoklauf: Roman
By Henry Jaeger. 1982
Der Name der Rose
By Umberto Eco. 1982
A combination of religious heresy and a string of murders in a medieval Italian monastery brings Brother William onto the…
scene to rout out both the infidels and the perpetrator of the crimes. All of this revolves around secrets hidden in the abbey library, although what the mystery is remains elusive. German languageMein Sarg bleibt leer: Erzahlungen
By Hermann Schreiber. 1980
A collection of twenty-three short stories of horror and the occult. The title story deals with revenge from beyond the…
grave after an innocent man is executed for murder. German languageKonsul Mollers erben: der Roman einer Hamburger Familie
By Adolph Wittmaack. 1983
Paradiesmann: Roman
By Sandra Paretti. 1983
Goethe's Faust. Part one and sections from part two
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1963
Classic play, first appearing in 1808, about an old scholar who yearns to comprehend all experiences, but in order to…
do so must promise his soul to the evil spirit Mephistopheles. Contains the original German and English translation of part one and sections of part two. English and German language