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Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, …


Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by German author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by …

Der Kernphysiker Möbius entdeckt eine furchtbare Formel und flüchtet ins Irrenhaus. Am Ende geht es um die Verantwortung der Entdecker …

Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. (The New Sufferings of Young W.) is an analytic collage-style novel (montage novel) and …

Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy …

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by …

The Pledge (German: Das Versprechen) is a crime novella by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, published in 1958, after Dürrenmatt thought …


A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in …

"The Canterville Ghost" is a humorous short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be …