A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie’s World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each:...more
Zu all den herausragenden Merkmalen, die Patrick Süskinds Klassiker mit den Jahren auf sich vereint hat, kommt nun ein neues hinzu: Hans Korte lässt die Geschichte des Pariser Massenmörders Jean- Baptiste Grenouille in akustischer Brillanz aufleben. Markant spricht er, lässt mit seiner eindrucks- und ausdrucksvollen Stimme schnell Atmosphäre u...more
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, desp...more
14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.
You could be excused for thinking that this book is one containing a simple story for young children about a Little Prince. How wrong you would be! This is far from the truth: it is much more. It is a complex story containing lots of ambiguities about a child with golden hair. These are all eruditely discussed before the actual story begins, in a s...more
Drei Jahre, nachdem Hermann Hesses ambitioniertes Alterswerk Das Glasperlenspiel (1943) in der Schweiz erschienen war, wurde sein stolzer Autor in Deutschland mit dem Goethe-Preis geehrt. Für den Roman war die Auszeichnung ein doppelter Glücksfall: Zum einen ebnete sie dem Buch auch auf vormals nationalsozialistisch verseuchtem Terrain den Boden;...more
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