The German magazine Der Spiegel titled Mr. Kuka's recommendations as "the trickiest book of the season" just after publication.
Waldemar, an aspiring and inexperienced young man from Warsaw, firmly decided to travel to the West for the first time in his life. That trip to Vienna turned into a swedish of European proportions, with pointed and somewhat venomous complaints against the golden West.
The thief of the peaks is a book with a dose of the finest philosophical-Lacrdian humor that can be read as a guide to solving small and large life puzzles.
Goethe's masterpiece of an epistolary novel from 1774 (revised in 1787), pivotal to the Sturm und Drang movement, caused a cultural upheaval in Europe – a wave of suicides, "Wertherism" and the imitation of heroes in fashion and sentiment.
"The Robbers" (1781), Friedrich Schiller's first play, is a key work of the German Sturm und Drang movement, which explores themes of freedom, justice, moral conflict, and rebellion against social norms.