Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of FranzKafkawhich areThe MetamorphosisandThe Trial. Author Franz Kafka explored the human struggle for understanding and security in his novels such as Amerika, The Trial and The Castle. Novels selected for this book: –The Metamorph ...
Der Roman spielt im schweizerischen Mittelland, vorwiegend in der zweiten Halfte des letzten Jahrhunderts, leuchtet aber auch in seine leid- und gewaltvolle erste Halfte. Er erzahlt von den enormen Umbruchen einer bisher scheinbar heilen Gesellschaft. Geschildert werden die Familiengeschichten von 'Nachbarn' – in ihren Strukturen und ihrem beruflichen Wandel wird klar, wie die Neuerungen der Zeit ihren Weg bis in das letzt ...
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Honore de Balzacwhich areFather GoriotandA Woman of Thirty. Honore de Balzac was a French realism novelist, playwright, essayist and critic. His serial novel, La Comedie humaine, is among his most extensive works. Novels selected f ...
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of H. P. Lovecraft which are At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time. H.P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. The horror magazine Weird Tales bought some of his stories in 1923. His story ...
1912 reicht die junge BWL-Studentin Clara Wirth ihre Dissertation uber Kinderarbeit ein. Ihr Einsatz fur die Kinder findet keinerlei Wurdigung. Jahrzehnte spater pragt eine bierselige Studentenrunde den Namen Schmauchtal fur die Gegend, in der einst Kinder nachts Tabakblatter ausrippten. Andreas Werth aus diesem Kreis kehrt nach dem Ende seines Berufslebens in die Schweiz zuruck, erinnert sich an 'Schmauchtal' und beginnt mit Nachforsc ...
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Willa Catherwhich areOPioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather was anovelist noted for her portrayals of the settlers and frontier life on the American plains. Novels selected for this book: –O Pioneers! –Death ...
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels ofJoseph Conradwhich are Heart of Darkness andLord Jim. After a sea-faring career in the French and British merchant marines, Joseph Conrad wrote short stories and novels which combined his experiences in remote places with an i ...
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Jack London which are White Fang and The Scarlet Plague. Jack London (January 12, 1876 November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one o ...