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New Yorker Legende
A collection of stories by Louis Bromfield about life, ambition and eccentric characters in 1920s New York. Witty, nostalgic and satirical portrayals of the American metropolis.
Bel-Ami
Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece and one of the most important novels of French realism and naturalism. A sharp satire of Parisian society of the Third Republic – corrupt, cynical and obsessed with money and power.
Boheme
The novel depicts the lives of poor artists, writers, and musicians in Paris's Latin Quarter in the 1840s. A romantic, cheerful, and tragic portrayal of bohemian life full of love, poverty, and art.
Die Kameliendame
The young Armand Duval falls in love with the courtesan Marguerite Gautier, known as the Lady with the Camellias. Their passionate love is destroyed by social prejudice and victimhood.
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary, a provincial doctor's wife, seeks romantic happiness in love affairs and luxury. Her dreams collide with reality and lead to ruin.
Ein Tal in Ohio
A romantic depiction of life in the Ohio Valley on a family farm. Ellen Bromfield describes the lives of generations, their relationship to the land, and the changes in the American Midwest through an intimate, nostalgic story.
Gruppenbild mit Dame
The novel reconstructs the life of Leni Pfeiffer through testimonies and documents. Leni survives Nazism, war and the post-war period, falls in love with a Soviet prisoner and remains true to her humanity despite everything.
Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera
Florentino Ariza waited more than half a century to renew his oath of eternal fidelity and undying love to Fermina Daza, his love from his youthful days, who, after a long and frustrated love affair, had already rejected him once and married someone else.
Perestroika: Die zweite russische Revolution - Eine neue Politik für Europa und die Welt
In the book, Mikhail Gorbachev explains perestroika as the second Russian revolution – a reform of Soviet society, economy and international politics. He advocates openness (glasnost), democracy and new cooperation with the West.
Agent in eigener Sache
Magnus Pym, a successful British intelligence officer and double agent, disappears after his father's funeral. In hiding, he writes a memoir about a life shaped by a deceitful father, lies, and betrayal. Le Carré's most autobiographical novel.