At the heart of this fascinating multi-layered adventure novel is an authentic account of the fate of the Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1873.
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Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
The novel, written in verse, is about two brothers from the Irish island of Horse Island who head to Tibet to reach the top of the Flying Mountain.
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.
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.
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.
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