Opposites attract, and Helmut Holk and Christine Arne, the appealing married couple at the center of this engrossing book by one of Germany’s greatest novelists, could not be less alike. Christine is a serious soul from a devout background. She is brood
These stories are offered together for the first time in English translation. They cover a period of more than 30 years, and were originally published in French periodicals and in Russia. Zola's racy tone is faithfully rendered by Parmee whose translation
The natural world in all its richness, glimpsed variously in the house, the barnyard, and the garden, in ponds and streams, and at large in the woods and the fields, including old friends like the dog, the cat, the cow, and the pig, along with more unusua
Afloat, originally published as Sur l’eau in 1888, is a book of dazzling but treacherously shifting currents, a seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise along the French Mediterranean coast that opens up to reveal unexpected depths, as Guy de Maupas
Mit großer Nüchternheit beschreibt Fontane die Irrungen und Wirrungen einer Gesellschaft, die sich vom Gebot der Menschlichkeit entfernt hat und in der das unstandesgemäße Liebesverhältnis zwischen einem Adligen und einer kleinen Plättnerin scheiter
Fontane verfasste die Novelle im Zeitraum von 1883 bis April 1885. Als Kriminalgeschichte galt sie in der Literaturwissenschaft lange Zeit eher als weniger gelungenes Nebenwerk Fontanes. Obwohl der Leser bereits von Beginn an die Täter und ihre Motive ke
Theodor Fontane (1819-98), widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the period. The Stechlin is Fontane's
In seinem satirisch-humorvollen Gesellschaftsroman "Frau ]enny Treibel", der 1892 veröffentlicht wurde, entlarvt Fontane die Hauptfiguren in ihren egoistischen Intrigen deutlich genug als sentimental, dünkelhaft oder bieder-pragmatisch. Dennoch kann man
SELECTED EXTRACT FROM THE TABLE OF CONTENTS- The Complete Sonnets and Major Poems By William Shakespeare- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling By Henry Fielding- A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy By Laurence Sterne- Pride and Prejudice By Ja
