Stefan: 3445 books

In Stardust Lost, Stefan Kanfer brings the colorful Yiddish stage roaring back to life. Born of ancient traditions stretching back to the drama of the Old Testament, the Yiddish theater was a vibrant part of the immigrant experience. Kanfer invokes the energy, belief, and pure chutzpah it took to...

Alexander Moritz Frey ist einer der großen Unbekannten der deutschen Literatur. Sein Antikriegs-Roman "Die Pflasterkästen" (1929) wurde in einem Atemzug mit "Im Westen nichts Neues" genannt und sein Roman "Solneman der Unsichtbare" (1914) gilt als einer der großen...

In 1974, a low-budget, no-star horror movie was unleashed on the world, causing panic among the censors and provoking glee from its intended audience. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is still as powerful today as when it was first seen almost thirty years ago, and will return to the screens in a high...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a...

He was complex, quirky, pugnacious, and difficult. He seemed to create enemies wherever he went, even among his friends. A fireplug of a man who stood only five feet eight inches in his stocking feet, he had an outsized ambition to make his mark on the world. And he did. William Temple Hornaday (1854-1937)...

As Stefan Ihrig shows in this first comprehensive study, many Germans sympathized with the Ottomans’ longstanding repression of the Armenians and with the Turks’ program of extermination during World War I. In the Nazis’ version of history, the Armenian Genocide was justifiable because it had made possible the astonishing rise of the New Turkey.

By the age of fourteen, Barbara Newhall Follett had published two books with Alfred A. Knopf: 1927's enchanting "The House Without Windows and Eepersip's Life There" and 1928's "The Voyage of the Norman D.", the account of her journey from New Haven to Nova Scotia as "cabin boy" on a lumber schooner....

La ambición y la intriga son las únicas pasiones de este hombre político, carente de escrúpulos y moral, que navega a través de las convulsiones sociales y políticas de la Francia revolucionaria y del imperio sin mudar el gesto. Como muy bien dice Zweig: «Los gobiernos, las formas de Estado,...

A principios del siglo XVI, la empresa de llegar a la especiería de las Indias Orientales abriendo una ruta navegando de Europa hacia el Oeste, cobro nuevo vigor tras la aceptación de la tesis de Américo Vespucio de que los territorios descubiertos por Colón era un nuevo continente y no las Indias...

Coronada reina de Escocia con apenas seis días, María Estuardo es uno de los personajes más enigmáticos y apasionantes de su tiempo. Su vida y sus desdichas han suscitado la curiosidad de multitud de estudiosos. Educada en Francia, refinada, culta y hermosa, su adhesión al catolicismo en la turbulenta...

Stefan Zweig reunió en este ensayo una serie de textos que vieron la luz desde comienzos de siglo XX y que se fijan en sus grandes pasiones de la narrativa: Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens y Fiodor Dostoievski, en ese orden. Aunque el resultado es notable, hay que decir que la balanza está totalmente...

Riviera'da eşi ve iki kızıyla tatil yapan 33 yaşındaki Henriette bir gece ansızın ortadan kaybolur. Kusursuz bir evliliği olduğu sanılan genç kadının, nasıl ve neden ortadan kaybolduğu dedikodu konusu olur. Pansiyonda kalanların hepsi kadını yargılamaya başlar, ancak anlatıcımız...

Rastlantı sonucu eline geçidiği bir kitapla satrancın inceliklerini öğrenerek bu oyunu bir tutkuya dönüştüren ve giderek bu tutkusu yüzünden beyin hummasına yakalanan Dr. B.'nin öyküsüdür görünüşte Satranç. Ama derinlerde bir veda mektubudur aslında. Stefan Zweig'ın Brezilya'da...

Birinci Dünya Savaşını izleyen yıllarda, Avusturya'nın bir köyündeki postanede memur olarak iş bulan Christine Hoflehner'in önünde, renksiz ve yoksulluk dolu bir yaşam uzanmaktadır. Ancak Amerika'daki akrabalarından aldığı bir mektup tekdüze yaşamından çekip alır onu. Çalışmayı...