Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Dieses fünfbändige Werk Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg ist das umfangreichste des deutschen Schriftstellers Theodor Fontane (1819-1898). Er beschreibt darin Schlösser, Klöster, Orte und Landschaften der Mark Brandenburg, ihre Bewohner und ihre Geschichte, Legenden und Sagen. Zwischen 1862...

Die junge Erzieherin Herma Hell ist sehr glücklich auf Schloss Lindeck. Die Kinder lieben sie, Anita von Seebach bietet ihr ihre Freundschaft an, und Gunnar Lundström, "der Märchenprinz", zeigt ihr offen seine Sympathie. Den einzigen Schatten auf Hermas Glück wirft Kurt von Fuchs. Er...

The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic. At Heaven’s Gate, Robert Penn Warren’s second novel, is a neglected classic of twentieth-century fiction. First published in 1943, it grew out of...

Exploring the main themes of communication (or the lack of it) in today’s world; creating Art for its own sake; confronting a terminal disease; embracing Life as it is; work-place abuse by incompetent bosses; unrequited love for one’s spouse; searching for one’s true identity and place in society;...

Morabaraba ke motshameko o o tshamekiwang ka mekgwa e le mentsinyana e e farologaneng. Batshameki ba morabaraba gantsi ba nna babedi, mme ba gaisana ka go tsamaisa le go tseelana matlapana (dikgomo) mo mesimaneng. Yo o tsamaisang matlapana ka botlhale mo mesimaneng o kgona go gapa matlapana a yo mongwe,...

Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of the survivors, Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who fought for their lives under the Nazi occupation during World War II. Through the prism of the retrospect perception as narrated by the novel's main character Flyora...

U kunt ook optreden als verteller en animator van een stadswandeling, voor een grotere groep personen, en daarbij de verhalen in dit ebook gebruiken. Of u kunt optreden als spelleider, een grote groep verdelen in teams, en deze teams het tegen elkaar laten opnemen. In uw rol van spelleider/animator...

Ivan Turgenev was a Russian writer and playwright in the 19th century.  Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons as well as his short stories were key contributions to Russian Realism.  This edition of The Rendezvous includes a table of contents.

A “gorgeous novel” of two upper-class Pakistani families and the complicated love that develops between their children, by the author of Home Fire (Los Angeles Times). Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged...

There is dark magic in the world, of a very ancient kind. Except that today it usually comes masked as entertainment. It dances its spells into our lives in music and movies and games. For all its modern style, its spells are no less dark now than they were when the world was still young. The battle...

A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel García Márquez Trapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is not a passive loser, content to accept...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review). In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered...

An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely...

Ésta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar. Segunda novela de Isabel Allende, De amor y de sombra es un agudo testimonio de las dramáticas situaciones que se viven en ciertas regiones de América Latina, al tiempo que...