Now is reading time – this classic book should not be missing on any shelf

Here we present some classics from world history that should really not be missing on any bookshelf – or in any eBook library. You simply have to read these capacitors! Grab one of our timeless bestsellers, lean back and immerse yourself in strange worlds. The editors hope you enjoy reading!

Chess Novel – Stefan Zweig
At the center of the plot is the confrontation of the psychological abysses that a Gestapo prisoner experienced with the superficial world of wealthy travelers in the framework of the plot. The game of chess initially only plays the role of mere entertainment and only acquires its deeper meaning through the figure of the former prisoner.

The name of the rose – Umberto Eco
Brother William of Baskerville comes to an abbey in the Apennines to organize a meeting between the heretical Minorites and emissaries of the Pope. However, he and his assistant are soon faced with all sorts of bizarre events and deaths. William examines secret writings, finds a ghostly labyrinth and finally the murderer – but too late to save the abbey.

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
The controversial novel of a tragic passion, which has long since achieved world fame and has been filmed twice: A forty-year-old falls under the graceful magic of a childish nymph and experiences love as absolute power over life and death. A story as terrifying as it is fascinating at the same time.

The tin drum – Günter Grass
In the early 1950s, a hunchback born in 1924 drums and writes the story of his life and his family from the beginning of the century to Adenauer’s Germany in a sanatorium and nursing home. Oskar Matzerath saw and heard everything, nothing escaped him.

1984 – George Orwell
History forger in the civil service, falls in love with the beautiful and mysterious Julia. Together they begin to question the totalitarian world as part of which they have functioned so far. But even their thoughts are crimes, and Big Brother keeps his watchful eye on any potential dissident. Orwell’s vision of a totalitarian state, in which cyber surveillance and the like determine glass citizens, has become more explosive than any other dystopia.

To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
America in the 30’s. The brutal reality of prejudice and racism intrudes into the idyllic southern childhood of the eight-year-old Scout and her older brother Jem. Scout’s father Atticus, a philanthropic lawyer, is charged with defending black farm laborer Tom Robinson, who allegedly raped a white girl. Scout and her brother bravely try to support their father’s sense of democratic justice.

The catcher in the rye – Jerome D. Salinger
Sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield, wandering through New York, has become a cult figure for entire generations. Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old high school dropout, has just been flown out of his fourth school. He scrutinizes the “wrong” aspects of society and the “wrong” ones themselves: the headmaster, his fellow students.

The great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
A masterpiece of American literature in a new translation. The Great Gatsby is a socially critical novel set in New York in the 1920s. The focus is on the embodiment of the American dream, the pursuit of money, power and love – and ultimately its failure.

Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
Despite all gloomy, prophetic warnings, Ishmael hires on the “Pequod”. What begins as an ordinary whaling is transformed under the command of the demonic Ahab into a battle of ancient force that can only mean doom.

War and Peace – Lev Tolstoy
In his grandiose masterpiece, Lev Tolstoj unfolds a large epic over 2000 pages about the fate of three Russian noble families during the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of the 19th century.

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s most popular novel, the unforgettable love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy Longbourn’s Mr. Bennet has five daughters, but his property can only be passed on to a male heir. So it is imperative that at least one of the girls is successfully married off in order to support the other, but this is not an easy undertaking.

Faust – Wolfgang Goethe, graphic novel by Jan Krauss and Alexander Pavlenko (from October 2021)
This graphic novel opens up this very German work to us with masterfully drawn scenes like from a bold historical film. The internationally successful artist Alexander Pavlenko succeeds in visualizing Goethe’s exemplary drama with its different spheres, milieus and times in appropriate styles. Jan Krauss has adequately transferred Goethe’s poetry into prose.

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Fisherman Santiago goes out to sea alone in a small rowing boat. He caught nothing for eighty-four days. His young helper was sent to another boat – the old man was haunted by misfortune, say the parents. But after Santiago has waited for another whole day in vain, a very large fish bites and pulls him and the boat out to sea. An unequal fight begins.

Lord of the Flies – William Golding
A plane crash over an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean: only a few students survive. At first, the loss of civilization seems easy to overcome, but aggression and violence soon spread. The boys lose all inhibitions, a life-and-death struggle begins.

Unnecessary knowledge Literature – Carina Heer
In this book, the reader learns a lot about the exciting, bizarre and entertaining anecdotes about the well-known literature. Who knows that Honoré de Balzac always wore a monk’s robe when writing? Or that ladies in the Victorian era had to sort their library by gender of the author? You will find this and many more facts in this book.

Big ideas. The literature book
This comprehensive reference work presents the greatest masterpieces, heroes of novels and writers in literary history – from Fitzgerald’s Gatsby to Goethe’s Faust to Shelley’s Frankenstein. Take this book on a fascinating tour of discovery through over 100 books from all over the world that have had a lasting impact on literary life!

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