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The Hunger Pastor (German Classics)

Author : Wilhelm Raabe
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595690751
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Hunger Pastor (German Classics) written by Wilhelm Raabe and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Raabe's novel entitled Der Hungerpastor (1864) is a classic example of the so-called "poetic realism" to which many - primarily bourgeois - German writers were devoted between 1850 and 1890. --- Wilhelm Raabe (1831 - 1910) became famous following the publication of his first novel, Die Chronik der Sperlingsgasse (The Sparrow Lane Chronicle), in 1856. His late works are known for their social criticism, while earlier novels, such as The Hunger Pastor, were intended to be primarily educational. --- With the figure of Hans Unwirrsch in The Hunger Pastor, Raabe completely lives up to his motto - "Look up to the stars. Pay attention to the streets." The budding pastor, who was born into poverty, "hungers" for knowledge and a respected place in society, but he constantly stumbles over obstacles that his own life, as well as the lives of his family and friends, place before him. --- Raabe's rambling style makes his works difficult reading for many contemporary readers. In this version of The Hunger Pastor, several chapters have therefore been summarized by the translator, while the most important ones are published in their original length. --- Despite some anti-Semitic elements, which were commonly found in the works of some 19th century bourgeois writers in Germany, The Hunger Pastor is and remains a German literature classic.

The German Classics

Author : Kuno Francke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The German Classics written by Kuno Francke and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Governor of Greifensee (Swiss-German Classics)

Author : Gottfried Keller
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595690840
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis The Governor of Greifensee (Swiss-German Classics) by : Gottfried Keller

Download or read book The Governor of Greifensee (Swiss-German Classics) written by Gottfried Keller and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), one of the greatest German authors in Switzerland, was a confirmed bachelor, not by choice but by necessity. He had been in love several times, but all he received in return was friendship and respect. --- In 'The Governor of Greifensee', one of Keller's Zurich Novellas, the hero, Salomon Landolt, the noble and impartial judge and governor, hits upon the grotesque plan of inviting all his former sweethearts to a festival at his castle. The five ladies accept the invitation not knowing that the others would be there. They are sincerely glad to see their old friend again; for it was not he who had deserted or injured any of them, they all for one reason or another had rejected the hand of the worthy suitor. --- It was Keller's own experience. The novel is a fine example of Keller's humor and art of story-telling. The five love affairs of the governor are told with exquisite grace and subtle characterization.

God's Beloved (German Classics)

Author : Bernhard Kellermann
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 159569126X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book God's Beloved (German Classics) written by Bernhard Kellermann and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What we find in the insane asylum of 'God's Beloved' are strange human communities, presented in the characteristic atmosphere of their milieu. Kellermann was a seeker after new forms of expression for psychical reaction; but he presented himself as a pure nature of great delicacy and lucidity." (Kuno Francke)

A Village Romeo and Juliet (Swiss-German Classics)

Author : Gottfried Keller
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595690794
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis A Village Romeo and Juliet (Swiss-German Classics) by : Gottfried Keller

Download or read book A Village Romeo and Juliet (Swiss-German Classics) written by Gottfried Keller and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is necessarily an important element in all imaginative literature, but with Gottfried Keller it does not overshadow all other aspects of life. Great passion we do not find in his works. In "A Village Romeo and Juliet", it is not ill-consuming love that makes the two young people seek death, but the bitter realization of life's law, as they understood it, which made it impossible for them ever to be united. The story is a fine illustration of what a great artist may make out of his raw material. Keller had read in a newspaper a report of the suicide of two young people, the sort of tragedy that we may read almost daily in newspapers; he seized upon the possibilities of the situation and the result was this story, perhaps the best he ever wrote. --- Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was one of the foremost Swiss novelists and one of the most original figures of German literature since Goethe, a master of style worthy to be classed with the great names of all ages. (John Albrecht Walz)

The Jewess of Toledo (German Classics)

Author : Franz Grillparzer
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691391
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewess of Toledo (German Classics) by : Franz Grillparzer

Download or read book The Jewess of Toledo (German Classics) written by Franz Grillparzer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Grillparzer (1791 - 1872) was an Austrian dramatic poet. "The Jewess of Toledo" may perhaps be said to mark the climax of his productive activity. Written in 1851, it was first performed in Prague in 1872, after Grillparzer's death. It is an eminently modern drama of passion in classical dignity of form. The play is properly called "The Jewess of Toledo"; for Rachel, the Jewess, is at the centre of the action, and is a marvelous creation – "a mere woman, nothing but her sex". The King of Castile, however, though relatively passive, is the most important character. He is attracted to Rachel by a charm that he has never known in his coldly virtuous English consort, and, after an error forgivable because made comprehensible, is taught the duty of personal sacrifice to morality and to the state.

Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics)

Author : Theodor Fontane
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691251
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics) by : Theodor Fontane

Download or read book Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics) written by Theodor Fontane and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gentle melancholy of two people coming together in a way which can never lead to full satisfaction, the quiet tragedy of a separation not forced by external powers but by the constant pressure of circumstances-this is what sounds through this splendid story. "Trials and Tribulations" is built entirely on this motive. An honest sturdy young officer and a decent pretty girl get to know each other on an excursion. Unconsciously they drift into a relation where heart meets heart, the breaking of which causes the deepest pain. But both see clearly from the beginning that there is no other end. For they know that the world is stronger than the individual, and the many small moments than the one supreme. They know it, for they are, like their creator, resigned realists. They shut their eyes only in order not to see the end too near. (Richard M. Meyer)---The interest of Fontane's novels lies rather in character than in action. While he portrays many types characteristic of Berlin and the surrounding region, and is very successful in rendering local color and the atmosphere of the particular circle described in each book, his penetration into universal human nature is sufficiently deep to raise him far above provincialism. His effort is to represent people vividly and naturally in their normal relations, not to strain after sensational or even dramatic situations. "Trials and Tribulations" ("Irrungen Wirrungen", 1887) gives an excellent idea of his power. In a gently moving story, told without the forcing of emotion or the contriving of exciting scenes, he deals with the pathos of the relation between a man and a woman, alike in an attractive simplicity of character, but forced apart by difference of rank. The situation is laid before us without expressed censure or protest, and is allowed to have its effect by the sober truth of its presentation. Fontane's is an honest and sincere art, none the less great because unpretentious. (W.A.N.)

The Monk's Marriage (Swiss-German Classics)

Author : Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691383
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis The Monk's Marriage (Swiss-German Classics) by : Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Download or read book The Monk's Marriage (Swiss-German Classics) written by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) was a poet and novelist, born in Zürich, Switzerland. Meyer was preeminently the artist among German novelists; his style is polished and finely balanced; his scenes are delineated with infinite care, and his subjects always have a certain inner harmony with the spirit of the author's own time. In "The Monk's Marriage" Meyer reached the highest development of the "frame-story." It has been universally admired for the genius and audacity of its invention, for its artistic elaboration, and for the wonderful pen-portrait of Dante, "the wanderer through Hell," whose personality dominates the whole story as he narrates it. This introduction of Dante was a bold stroke, justified only by success. The plot of the tale itself is based upon an account (in Machiavelli's "History of Florence") of a family feud which began the bitter factional strife of the Guelfs and Ghibellines in Florence. The frame is a masterpiece, generally more admired than the story. The tale is characteristically Italian, with its sudden changes of fortune, the breathless development of the plot, the volcanic outburst of passion. The plot, one of the few in Meyer's works in which love is the dominant note, is well developed and told with consummate art. The language is noticeable for its stately dignity, such as befits the character of the narrator, the great Dante. The story has one of "those murderous finales which are Meyer's delight," as Gottfried Keller once wrote to Theodor Storm. And yet, The "Monk's Marriage" ranks as one of the best, if not the best, of Meyer's Novellen.

Ursula (Swiss-German Classics)

Author : Gottfried Keller
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595690832
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Ursula (Swiss-German Classics) written by Gottfried Keller and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cycle "Zurich Novellas" by Gottfried Keller: In 1877 Gottfried Keller published his "Zurich Novellas" (Züricher Novellen), a series of short novels dealing with the history of Zurich and Switzerland. "Ursula" is a love story between a Swiss soldier and the daughter of a farmer during the time of the Swiss Reformation lead by Ulrich Zwingli and at the beginning of the Anabaptist movement in Europe in the 16th century. --- "Gottfried Keller was one of the foremost Swiss novelists and one of the most original figures of German literature since Goethe, a master of style worthy to be classed with the great names of all ages." (John Albrecht Walz)

Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle (German Classics)

Author : Heinrich Von Kleist
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 159569076X
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle (German Classics) written by Heinrich Von Kleist and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael Kohlhaas" is a novella written by famed writer Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811). The story is based upon the historical figure of Hans Kohlhase, a 16th century merchant who turned violent after being attacked and victimized by the authorities. As a result, he gathered around him a band of criminals and spread terror throughout the whole of Saxony. --- "The novella is a good example of Kleist's excellent narrative art: The action can be summed up in a few words, such as the formula for this story, given expressly on its first page: 'His sense of justice made him a robber and a murderer.' There is no leisurely exposition of time, place, or situation; all the necessary elements are given concisely in the first sentences. The action develops logically, with effective use of retardation and climax, but without disturbing episodes; and the reader is never permitted to forget the central theme. The descriptive element is realistic, with only pertinent details swiftly presented, often in parentheses, while the action moves on. The characterization is skilfully indirect, through unconscious action and speech. The author does not shun the trivial or even the repulsive in detail, nor does he fear the most tragic catastrophes ... The whole work in all its parts is firmly and finely forged by a master workman. --- Kleist has remained a solitary figure in German literature. Owing little to the dominant literary influences of his day, he has also found few imitators. Two generations passed before he began to come into his heritage of legitimate fame. Now ... his place is well assured among the greatest dramatic and narrative authors of Germany." (John S. Nollen)

The Poor Musician (German Classics. The Life of Grillparzer)

Author : Franz Grillparzer
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 159569109X
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Poor Musician (German Classics. The Life of Grillparzer) written by Franz Grillparzer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Poor Musician" is an autobiographical novella by Austria's famous dramatist and poet Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872): Rounded and compacted, and yet saturated with the sad tragedy of his own isolation -- it is the most artistic work we have from his pen. For the student of Grillparzer-psychology it is a veritable treasure trove. "The Poor Musician" was the one piece of his creative genius that unflinchingly grappled with the great problem of resignation; the one piece that pictured resignation; but also the one piece that made resignation itself tragic. --- The poor, half-witted fiddler, shipwrecked in life, coddling his woe as the last sweet treasure it has left him, pouring it forth in the midnight solitude of his chamber in music that is music to none but the illusioned player -- such is resignation.

From the Memoirs of Herr Von Schnabelewopski (German Classics)

Author : Heinrich Heine
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691022
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book From the Memoirs of Herr Von Schnabelewopski (German Classics) written by Heinrich Heine and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a German poet and author of prose. His "Reisebilder" (Travel Sketches), "Die Harzeise" (Journey through the Harz Mountains), and the volume of collected poems "Buch der Lieder" (Book of Songs) are classics of German literature. --- His general interest in legends and folk tales is evident in his "Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski", in which he tells, inter alia, the story of the Flying Dutchman that became the source for an opera by Richard Wagner. --- Many of his poems have been set to music by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and other composers.

The Rider of the White Horse (The Dikegrave. German Classics)

Author : Theodor Storm
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595690743
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Book Synopsis The Rider of the White Horse (The Dikegrave. German Classics) by : Theodor Storm

Download or read book The Rider of the White Horse (The Dikegrave. German Classics) written by Theodor Storm and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rider of the White Horse (1888) is a classic German novella, in which the individual wrestles with the mass, the man with the most elementary forces of nature. It is Theodor Storm's (1817-1888) last complete work. --- The scene of the novella is characterized with vividness and grandeur in its setting of marsh and sea. Like the stories of Storm's youth, it glorifies love, the love of two beings who are faithful to each other unto death, and at the same time it touches themes which deeply occupied Storm, such as the problem of heredity or the relation between father and son. The charm of youth, to which Storm was always most susceptible, invests the chief characters, and they have that chaste reserve that holds all internal life sacred. Happiness is won, but it ends in tragedy. It is a man of sober intellect who tells the whole story - and yet, like human life itself, it stands out against a mystic background. Remembrance of long ago has clarified everything; loving comprehension fills everything with deepest sympathy. --- It was granted to Storm to stand on a pinnacle of art at the end of his life, a pinnacle which he had to leave, but from which he did not need to descend. (Ewald Eiserhardt)

Florentine Nights (German Classics)

Author : Heinrich Heine
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691014
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Florentine Nights (German Classics) written by Heinrich Heine and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his stay in Italy, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) visited Florence, with which he was delighted beyond measure. The literary outcome of this visit was the well-known fantastic and brilliant "Florentine Nights." It is a series of brilliant pictures united by a very slight thread of connection; it is charming in its vague and uneventful wandering, with its strong suggestion of the great original, the Arabian Nights, and its still stronger contrast. In addition, in this love-tale occur some of the best examples of Heine's biting vein.

Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics)

Author : Romain Rolland
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691332
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics) written by Romain Rolland and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows. The story is gay and humorous, and full of wise observations about life. --- "Colas Breugnon is the jovial Burgundian, the lusty wood-carver, the practical joker always fond of his glass, the droll fellow. Before everything, Colas Breugnon is a free man. He loves his king, but only so long as the king leaves him his liberty; he loves his wife, but follows his own bent; he is on excellent terms with the priest of a neighboring parish, but never goes to church; he idolizes his children, but his vigorous individuality makes him unwilling to live with them. He is friendly with all, but subject to none; he is freer than the king; he has that sense of humor characteristic of the free spirit to whom the whole world belongs. From the artistic point of view, 'Colas Breugnon' may perhaps be regarded as Rolland's most successful work. This is because it is woven in one piece, because it flows with a continuous rhythm, because its progress is never arrested by the discussion of thorny problems. It is written throughout in the same key. The first sentence gives the note like a tuning fork, and thence the entire book takes its pitch. Throughout, the same lively melody is sustained. The writer employs a peculiarly happy form. His style is poetic without being actually versified; it has a melodious measure without being strictly metrical. This work is unlike any of Rolland's other writings. It is not an historic study, a critical appreciation, a philosophic essay, nor yet even, in the strictest sense of the word, a novel. It is rather a volume of reminiscences as told by a man of fifty; and the very aimlessness with which this man talks is in itself a pleasure; for Breugnon is himself the one subject of the book, holding our attention by the display of a wayward, sympathetic, and aggressive personality." (Stefan Zweig)

The Rabbi of Bacharach (German Classics)

Author : Heinrich Heine
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691006
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Rabbi of Bacharach (German Classics) written by Heinrich Heine and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Rabbi of Bacharach" is an unfinished novel by German writer Heinrich Heine (1799-1856). It describes the life of Rabbi Abraham and his wife Sara at the end of the Middle Ages in the small town of Bacharach on the Rhine and in the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt on the Main. --- The book also contains a "Biographical Sketch" of the life of Heinrich Heine by Emma Lazarus. --- "During the period of his earnest labors for Judaism, [Heine] had buried himself with fervid zeal in the lore of his race, and had conceived the idea of a prose-legend, the Rabbi of Bacharach, illustrating the persecutions of his people during the middle ages. ... Heine, one of the most subjective of poets, treats this theme in a purely objective manner. He does not allow himself a word of comment, much less of condemnation concerning the outrages he depicts. He paints the scene as an artist, not as the passionate fellow-sufferer and avenger that he is. But what subtle eloquence lurks in that restrained cry of horror and indignation which never breaks forth, and yet which we feel through every line, gathering itself up like thunder on the horizon for a terrific outbreak at the end!" (Emma Lazarus)

Pan Tadeusz (Pan Thaddeus. Polish Classics)

Author : Adam Mickiewicz
Publisher : Mondial
ISBN 13 : 1595691340
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book Pan Tadeusz (Pan Thaddeus. Polish Classics) written by Adam Mickiewicz and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical prose translation of the famous Polish verse epic. In the book, Tadeusz tells the story of two feuding noble families; it takes place in a fictional idyllic village, in 1811 and 1812, after the division of Poland-Lithuania between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. --- "No European nation of our day has such an epic as Pan Tadeusz. In it Don Quixote has been fused with the Iliad. ... Pan Tadeusz is a true epic. No more can be said or need be said." (Zygmunt Krasinski) --- "No play of Shakespeare, no long poem of Milton or Wordsworth or Tennyson, is so well known or so well beloved by the English people as is Pan Tadeusz by the Poles. To find a work equally well known one might turn to Defoe's prosaic tale of adventure, Robinson Crusoe; to find a work so beloved would be hardly possible." (George Rapall Noyes)