18 books like Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret

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Anton Reiser Karl Philipp Moritz · 1978 · ★ 4.0 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate xv, 456 p. ; 23 cm Shares: German Authors, German literature, Biography & Memoir

Briefe an Milena Franz Kafka · 1952 · ★ 3.9 · 360p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Letters to Milena is a book collecting some of Franz Kafka's letters to Milena Jesenská from 1920 to 1923. Publication history ----------------------- The letters were originally published in German in 1952 as Briefe an Milena, edited by Willy Haas, who decided to delete certain passages which he thought might hurt people who were still alive at the time. The collection was first published in… Shares: Germanic literature, German Authors, Biography & Memoir

Eine Jugend in Deutschland Ernst Toller · 1933 · ★ 5.0 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Eine Jugend in Deutschland ist eine Autobiographie von Ernst Toller, die 1933 erschien. Der Autor erinnert sich seines Lebens bis zum Jahr 1924. (Quelle: Wikipedia) Shares: German Authors, Biography & Memoir

Die deutsche Heldensage Wilhelm Grimm · 1829 · 426p · ≈ 14h · Challenging This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around… Shares: German literature, History and criticism

Das Schloß Franz Kafka · 1926 · ★ 3.9 · 380p · ≈ 12h · Challenging The Castle (original title: "Das Schloß") is the story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the… Shares: Germanic literature, German literature, Biography & Memoir

Conversations with Brando Lawrence Grobel · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Marlon Brando ha sido considerado como el mejor actor del siglo XX, el actor por antonomasia. Un ser excéntrico y extraño, pero, también, genial y extremadamente humano. En definitiva, la expresión máxima de lo que entendemos como un espíritu libre, constituido en auténtico mito del cine. Sin duda, una obra única y especial, por tratarse de un documento de primera mano en el que Marlon Brando se… Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

Behauptete Subjektivität Markus Malo · 2009 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Die Studie widmet sich der Erforschung der deutschsprachigen jüdischen Autobiographie im 20. Jahrhundert. Nach einem überblick, der die Autobiographietradition im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert beleuchtet, werden die spezifischen Bedingungen der jüdischen Autobiographie, die seit dem Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts entsteht, herausgearbeitet. Im Hauptteil widmet sich die Arbeit der Einzeluntersuchung von… Shares: German literature, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Goethe's Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 14p · ≈ 28m · Challenging Diese Sammlung der Werke von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, bedeutender deutscher Dichter und Naturforscher, enthält u. a.:Die Leiden des jungen WertherWilhelm Meisters theatralische SendungUnterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenBassompierres Geschichte von der schönen KrämerinDer ProkuratorFerdinands Schuld und WandlungDas MärchenUnterhaltungen Deutscher AusgewandertenDie Sängerin AntonelliWilhelm… Shares: German Authors, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

Sämtliche Werke Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1800 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Challenging Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ist einer der größten Dramatiker und Dichter aller Zeiten. Jetzt genießen Sie die kompletten Werke von Goethe auf Ihrem E-Reader. Diese enorme Sammlung umfasst auch spezielle Bonustexte. (Version 1) die Dramen, jeweils mit einem Inhaltsverzeichnis kurze Einführungen in die Dramen und anderen Texte zahlreiche Bilder mit Bezug zu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, seinem Leben… Shares: German Authors, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

De urolige Linn Ullmann · 2019 · ★ 3.9 · 412p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that she's grown up and he's in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that he's losing his language, his memory,… Shares: Germanic literature, Biography & Memoir

Thespis Theodor Herzl Gaster · 1950 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Base for a statue of Thespis in the [[Theatre of Dionysus, 2nd century BC.]] Shares: Theater, History and criticism, Drama

The pragmatics of literary testimony Chantelle Warner · 2012 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all received critical attention from the popular press, topped bestseller lists, and have been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, subjectivity, and referentiality. Because of the thematic diversity of these works, scholars… Shares: German literature, History and criticism, Biography & Memoir

The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse Martin Swales · 1978 · 186p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an awareness of the tradition from which it arose. Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, characterization, and narrative commentary in novels by Wieland, Goethe, Stifter, Keller, Mann, and… Shares: German literature, History and criticism

Life of Samuel Johnson James Boswell · 1776 · ★ 3.8 · 567p · ≈ 18h · Demanding Poet, lexicographer, critic, moralist and Great Cham, Dr. Johnson had in his friend Boswell the ideal biographer. Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was 'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the… Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

Henry Moore David Sylvester · 1934 · ★ 4.4 · 44p · ≈ 1h · Challenging This seventh and final volume in the complete catalogue of Henry Moore's drawings provides a key to the material contained in the other six volumes. It gives a consolidated version of all the reference apparatus contained in each of the other volumes (index, concordance and list of exhibitions), enabling the user to track down any particular drawing from any period or volume by means of its… Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

Joan Miró Joan Miró · 1937 · ★ 4.2 · 85p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "This book takes the reader on a journey through Joan Miro's world of images. It includes work from all phases of the artist's career, from the early paintings in the style of poetic realism, via the playfully lyrical pictures of the 1920s and 1930s, to the colourful works of his later years. Stages in the journey are marked by photographs taken at the time by Miro's fellow Catalan Joaquim Gomis,… Shares: Interviews, Biography & Memoir

Letters to a young poet Rainer Maria Rilke · 1656 · ★ 4.3 · 138p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Letters written to F.X. Kappus during the years 1903-1908. Chronicle of Rilkes's life for the years 1903-1908 (p. 81-123). Shares: German Authors, Biography & Memoir

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares: Drama

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