Hermann: 877 books

Es gibt nur wenige Vertreter in Wirtschaft und Politik, die über Jahrhunderte im gleichen Umfang wie der Kapitän mit Attributen und Mythen bedacht wurden. Da geistert immer noch das »Master next God« durch die maritime Literatur, Victor Hugo stellte ihn über den König, der Bremer Professor Ulrich...

Hermann Josef Abert (* 25. März 1871 in Stuttgart; 13. August 1927 in Stuttgart) war ein deutscher Musikhistoriker. Seine Mozart-Biografie gehört zu den besten und umfassendsten Werken über den großen Komponisten und umfasst mehrere tausend Bildschirmseiten. Inhalt: Erster Teil - 1756-1782 Vorwort...

Kaum eine deutsche Herrschergestalt ist so von Legenden umrankt wie der bayerische König Ludwig II.; so fällt es historisch interessierten Leserinnen und Lesern nicht leicht, ein zuverlässiges Bild von diesem Herrscher zu gewinnen. Hermann Rumschöttel bietet jedoch in seiner kurz gefassten, prägnanten...

In 1953 Hermann Buhl made the first ascent of Nanga Parbat - the ninth-highest mountain in the world, and the third 8,000-metre peak to be climbed, following Annapurna and Everest. It was one of the most incredible and committed climbs ever made. Continuing alone and without supplementary oxygen,...

Fallait pas le chercher… Karim rêve de retourner vivre un jour au Maroc, dans une villa au soleil, au bord de la mer. Mais pour ça, il aurait besoin de toucher le pactole. Avec une équipe pas vraiment pro, il décide de s'attaquer à la petite fortune d'un couple de particuliers… Ce...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances...

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, Hesse’s ninth novel, was written in German, in a simple, lyrical style. It was published in the U.S. in 1951 and became influential...

"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?"Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a troubled young man's struggle toward self-awareness....

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Though set in a place and time far removed from the Germany of 1922,...

Hermann Hesse is best-known for Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, but his novella DEMIAN has been re-discovered and become very popular in its own right, exploring an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality. It's Hesse's brilliant coming-of-age novel about the spiritual and...

Vowing at an early age “to be a poet or nothing at all,” Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of independent study that included literature, philosophy, art, and history. One result of these efforts was a series of novels that became counterculture bibles...

Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s most lauded book: The enchanting story of one man’s journey in search of enlightenment Born into the privileged life of a Brahmin, young Siddhartha came of age surrounded by the teachings of the Buddha. But despite his earnest pursuit of enlightenment,...

Throughout his life, Herman Hesse was a devoted letter writer. He corresponded, not just with friends and family, but also with his readers. From his letters home from the seminary at age fourteen, to his last letters, written days before his death at eighty-five, this selection gives a sense of the author of some of the most widely read books of the century.

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein...