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  The classic of German literature...

  Stefan Zweig, Franz Kafka,...

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  German literature comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora.
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  Thomas Mann
  Death in Venice
  Hermann Hesse
  Siddhartha
  Franz Kafka
  The Metamorphosis
  Stefan Zweig
  A Summer Novella
  Rainer Maria Rilke
  Poems
  First Poems
  Evening
  Mary Virgin
  The Book of Pictures
  Presaging
  Autumn
  Silent Hour
  The Angels
  Solitude
  Kings in Legends
  The Knight
  The Boy
  Initiation
  The Neighbour
  Song of the Statue
  Maidens I
  Maidens II
  The Bride
  Autumnal Day
  Moonlight Night
  In April
  Memories of a Childhood
  Death
  The Ashantee
  Remembrance
  Music
  Maiden Melancholy
  Maidens at Confirmation
  The Woman who Loves
  Pont du Carrousel
  Madness
  Lament
  Symbols
  New Poems:
  Early Apollo
  The Tomb of a Young Girl
  The Poet
  The Panther
  Growing Blind
  The Spanish Dancer
  Offering
  Love Song
  Archaic Torso of Apollo

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  Taras Bulba and Other Tales...

  Nikolai Gogol

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  Nikolai Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", are also among his best-known works.

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  Meditation - Sounds of...

  Dante Alighieri

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  Descend into the depths of Dante’s Inferno, accompanied by the
  rumbling voice of the storm.
   
  Brace yourself for a truly immersive journey through the nine
  circles of Hell with Meditation: Sounds of Thunderstorms - Inferno
  Dante Alighieri. This unique digital audio edition merges
  the haunting poetry of Dante’s 14th-century masterpiece with the raw power of
  nature, creating an atmosphere that is both ominous and hypnotic.
   
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  A Classic Reimagined:
  Experience Inferno as never before—with crackling thunder and rolling
  storms enhancing Dante’s vivid and chilling imagery.
   
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  A Dramatic Atmosphere: The
  interplay of poetic verse and nature’s fury adds depth and intensity to every
  passage.
   
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  A Meditative Yet Haunting Journey:
  Perfect for those fascinated by epic poetry, dark mythology, or the timeless
  exploration of sin and redemption.

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  Two Tales from Sir Arthur Conan...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Here are two of his best stories, The New Catacomb and The Beetle-Hunter.

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  Black Voices on Britain

  Hakim Adi

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  A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library.Professor Hakim Adi, shortlisted for the Wolfson history prize, draws on a variety of published works in Black Voices on Britain, all of which describe powerful experiences: James Gronniosaw and his family endure poverty, illness and unemployment; Mary Prince is driven out by her cruel owners and turns to London charities for help; Frederick Douglass, on a lecture tour around Britain, reveals how the Christian clergy built churches with slave-owners’ money; and William Wells Brown gives his impressions of England as he travels around a country which welcomes him more readily than America. These and other voices offer a fascinating and thought-provoking portrayal of Black experiences in Britain.

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  Vathek

  William Beckford

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  Written in 1786, this Oriental fantasy tells the story of a dissolute and debauched Caliph, Vathek. Having become obsessed with power and immortality, Vathek embarks on a journey to obtain supernatural powers, in pursuit of which he proves willing to renounce his religion and sacrifice both his children and his soul. We follow Vathek’s remarkable travels to the subterranean palace of Eblis, where his ultimate fate awaits him. Among the themes explored in Vathek are ambition, desire and the consequence of unbridled power. The novel influenced several later writers, including Poe and Lovecraft, and is given an exhilarating reading here by Jonathan Keeble.

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