In a fictional memoir, the composer Kuhn reflects on his complex relationship with two artists--Heinrich Muoth, a self-destructive opera singer, and Gertrude Imthor, a gentle, assured woman who has fallen in love with Heinrich--describing their disastrous marriage and its [...]
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Released: 15.08.2005 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
After a young writer leaves his Swiss mountain village to experience the world, his illusions are crushed by the suffering he witnesses, until a friendship with an invalid restores his hope.
The Nobel Prize winner's 1922 fairy tale about a young man in the garden of paradise is accompanied by eighteen other stories that interweave fantasy, dream, satire, and folktale elements.
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Released: December 2003 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
"Rosshalde "is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society. Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and [...]
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Released: 15.07.2003 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
In simple, mesmersizing prose, Hesse tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual, as various historical figures travel together, encountering everything from Noahs Ark to Don Quixote.
This is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character who set each other on different paths in life.
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Released: 15.02.2003 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
A critique of bourgeois society as perceived by a lonely and sensitive man through his partly beautiful, partly diseased fantasies.
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Released: 15.12.2002 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)