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A romanticized biography of British adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. Three great journeys (India, the Hajj to Mecca, Africa, and the search for the source of the Nile) told from the perspectives of his Indian, Arab, and African companions/guides.
The novel follows the life of Jakob Formann from 1946 to 1976: from a poor returnee from the war, through business ups and downs, love, marriages and scandals, to becoming one of the richest and most famous people in Germany.
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.
The novel humorously and warmly depicts the everyday life of a fourteen-year-old boy, Olfi (Wolfgang), the only man in a house full of women. A classic of Austrian children's literature, it is often read in elementary school.
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.
Goethe's greatest autobiographical prose, written between 1811 and 1833, covers his life from his birth in 1749 in Frankfurt to 1775, when he went to Weimar at the invitation of Duke Karl August.