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The Black Napoleon (1931) is a fictional biography of Toussaint Louverture. It depicts the Haitian Revolution (1791–1803), the slave uprising in Saint-Domingue, Louverture's brilliant military and political rise, and his struggle against the colonial powe
Joseph Fouché (1930) is a brilliant biography of a brilliant and unscrupulous opportunist – a Minister of Police who served all regimes: the Revolution, Napoleon and the Bourbons, becoming a symbol of political cunning and moral emptiness.
The book presents a selection of short stories by about 15 Austrian authors, trying to show the development of Austrian short prose - from realism and naturalism through modernity and expressionism to post-war and postmodernist literature.
A representative selection from the lyrics of Goethe, one of the greatest European poets, encompassing key phases of his work – from Sturm und Drang, through the classical Weimar period to his late poems.
A scientific documentary novel about the discovery of radium, which tells the story of Marie and Pierre Curie, the medical revolution, but also the dark side – speculation, the fight for monopoly and the tragic consequences of radioactivity on people.
The Buddenbrooks is not just a family chronicle – it is a profound, melancholic fresco of how time and change inexorably creep into the core of a respectable bourgeois family, bringing with them a downfall that is both tragic and inevitable.