Kurt Tucholsky

Heinrich Heine

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Arthur Schnitzler

Heinrich Böll

Peter Stamm

Erich Kästner

Joseph Roth

Peter Rosegger

Thomas Mann

Rainer Maria Rilke

Martin Suter

The Brothers Grimm

Wolfgang von Goethe

Ilse Frapan

Helene Stökl

Wolfdietrich Schnurre

Ernst Anschütz

Hermann Hesse

This collection of new and classic Christmas literature includes stories by Herman Hesse, Joseph Roth, The Brothers Grimm, and many others. This collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. It also includes the first published English translation of Joseph Roth’s story “Christmas in Cochinchina.” Enjoy Eine fröhliche Weihnachten―A Merry Christmas―made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, all accompanied by plenty of schnapps.

The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time

A Very German Christmas

Anna Magdalena Johannsen

It became necessary to connect all these incongruous parts and additions by the strangest galleries, halls and passages. All damages, whether inflicted by the hand of the enemy or the power of time, were quickly made good. As occasion required, they deepened the moats, raised the walls, and took care there should be no lack of towers, battlements, and embrasures. This care and these exertions gave rise to a prejudice in favour of the great importance of the fortress, and still upheld that prejudice, although the arts of building and fortification were by this time very much advanced, and people had learnt to construct much better dwellings and defences in other cases. But the old castle was chiefly held in honour because it had never been taken, because it had repulsed so many assaults, had baffled so many hostile operations, and had always preserved its virgin renown. This renown, this influence lasts even now: it occurs to no one that the old castle is become uninhabitable. Its great duration, its costly construction, are still constantly spoken of. Pilgrims wend their way to it; hasty sketches of it are shown in all schools, and it is thus recommended to the reverence of susceptible youth. Meanwhile, the building itself is already abandoned; its only inmates are a few invalids, who in simple seriousness imagine that they are prepared for war. Thus there is no question here respecting a tedious siege or a doubtful war; so far from it we find this eighth wonder of the world already nodding to its fall as a deserted piece of antiquity, and begin at once, without further ceremony, to dismantle it from gable and roof downwards; that the sun may at last shine into the old nest of rats and owls, and exhibit to the eye of the wondering traveller that labyrinthine, incongruous style of building, with its scanty, make-shift contrivances, the result of accident and emergency, its intentional artifice and clumsy repairs. Such an inspection will, however, only be possible when wall after wall, arch after arch, is demolished, the rubbish being at once cleared away as well as it can be. To effect this, and to level the site where it is possible to do so, to arrange the materials thus acquired, so that they can be hereafter again employed for a new building, is the arduous duty we have undertaken in this Second Part. Should we succeed, by a cheerful application of all possible ability and dexterity, in razing this Bastille, and in gaining a free space, it is thus by no means intended at once to cover the site again and to encumber it with a new structure; we propose rather to make use of this area for the purpose of passing in review a pleasing and varied series of illustrative figures.

Goethe's Theory of Colours

The Sorrows of Young Werther was written in 1774, which made Johann Wolfgang von Goethe gain fame almost overnight. The main character Werther told his passionate story to his friend Wilhelm. During Werther’s staying in a village, he fell in love with a beautiful girl called Charlotte despite knowing that Charlotte had engaged to a man named Albert. Werther went though alternately joyful and depressed moment. Because of his unrequited love for Charlotte, the young Werther chose his own way to solve this dilemma.

The Sorrow of Young Werther

Le affinità elettive

Andreas Fiedler

Eine Textausgabe von Goethes Faust II mit Erläuterungen direkt am TextÜber das WerkGoethes »Faust« ist das Menschheitsdrama schlichtweg. Es ist das Drama des nach Erkenntnis strebenden Menschen, der an die Grenzen des Erkennbaren stößt. In seinem Existenzhunger überschreitet Faust diese Grenze und geht einen Pakt mit dem Teufel ein.Goethes Faust-Dichtung ist eines der wort- und motivgewaltigsten Dramen der deutschen Literatur. Dieses »epochale Weltgedicht« mit seiner unerschöpflichen Vielfalt, mythischen, historischen und biografischen Bezügen bleibt vielen Lesern »ein offenes Rätsel, die Menschen fort und fort ergötze und ihnen zu schaffen« macht, was schon Goethe 1831 in einem Brief vermutet.Über die AusgabeDie vorliegende kommentierte Textausgabe "Faust II. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil" bietet Text und Erläuterungen zugleich und ist daher besonders geeignet für die Textarbeit in der Schule. Anders als bei vielen kommentierten Ausgaben, wird der Stellenkommentar direkt zum Text präsentiert, wodurch ein häufiges, oft störend empfundenes Nachblättern vermieden wird. Die Ausgabe enthält:• über 330 Worterklärungen• Übersetzungen von lateinischen Phrasen• Erläuterungen zu Mythen, mythologischen Figuren und Ort• Erklärung alter Begriffe• Verszählung für die Textarbeit in der SchuleDer Text wird – anders als bei vielen anderen Druckausgaben – in einem gut formatierten, luftigeren Layout angeboten, der das Lesen vereinfacht.

Kommentierte Ausgabe Mit Verszahlung Und Worterklarungen Fur Die Gymnasiale Oberstufe

Faust II

Wolfgang von Goethe

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