The action takes place in the German city of Harz in the Middle Ages. Blond Ekbert, a knight of forty years old, lives with his wife Berta. They love each other, but they have no children. They live in seclusion, their guests are rare, with the exception of a friend of the family of Philip Walter. Once after dinner, at the request of Eckbert ...

: Telling people parables and stories of moral and philosophical content, a wandering philosopher preaches the doctrine of the Superman, but the world is indifferent to the words of the sage. The novel consists of four parts, each of which contains parables on various moral and philosophical topics. Poetically rhythmic in style ...

Amazing travels on land and at sea, military campaigns and fun adventures of Baron von Munchausen, which he usually talks about with a bottle in the circle of his friends.The duration of the adventures described in the book of Baron Munchausen is at the end of the 18th century. During the plot, the main character finds himself in ...

: A young German rides from the front on vacation. In his hometown, he meets his love and marries. Now he knows how terrible any war is and wants to make the most of his time at home to live. April. In the Russian village are German soldiers. Snow is melting, the bodies of those killed in winter peep out of the mud mixed ...

In 1835, the Buddenbrock family, highly revered in the small German trading city of Marienkirche, moved to a new house on Mengstrasse, recently acquired by the head of Johann Buddenbrock.The family consists of old Johann Buddenbrock, his wife, their son Johann, daughter-in-law Elizabeth and grandchildren: ...

Sheikh Ali-Banu of Alexandria was a very rich, but very unhappy person: the Franks took his son Kairam, and there was no news from the boy, and his wife died of grief. Every year, on the day of Kairam’s abduction, the sheikh cleaned the house as a holiday, for the dervish said that on the same day the son would return ...

: A few years before the Second World War, a repressed German surgeon, a convinced anti-militarist, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp and ends up in Paris, where he falls in love, loses his beloved and takes revenge on the enemy. Ravik met her on a late November evening on the Alma Bridge. It seemed to him that the woman was going ...

: Children's fear of a young man - fear of Sandman - comes to life, invades the adult life of a young man and destroys him.Nathaniel writes to a friend, the brother of his bride, Lotaru. In a letter, the young man talks about his childhood fear of the Sandman coming for children who do not want ...

: A famous racer falls in love with a terminally ill girl. Their short-lived happiness ends in the death of a rider in one of the rally. After a few weeks, the girl dies of tuberculosis. The famous race car driver Clerfe went to the alpine sanatorium "Montana" for his tuberculosis patients to visit his friend ...

The beginning of January. In the sanatorium "Einfrid", where they are mainly treated for consumptive, a businessman, Kleterian, comes with his wife Gabriela, who is sick with something pulmonary. Husband thinks problems with respiratory throat. The wife is young and charming, everyone in the sanatorium admires her appearance. The husband tells everyone ...

: Having survived two loves in childhood, the young writer leaves for another country. He believes that only in hardship are masterpieces born. Having met his beloved again, he realizes that art requires love. Schoolboy Tonio Kroeger is in love with a classmate of Hans. They walk together, Tonio escorts him to ...

Prologue London. A street singer sings a ballad about Mackey Knife: Shark teeth have wedges. Everyone sticks out for show. And Makki only has a knife, Yes, and he is hidden from view. If a shark spills blood, all the water around is red. He wears a Makki knife, gloves, Not a spot on the gloves. Here over the Thames in the alleys People are dying for a penny....

: Nazi Germany. Emigrant Germans fleeing the Nazis. One of them roams around Europe with his sick wife, dreaming of freedom and America. The narrator wanders through the nighttime Lisbon, hoping miraculously to get tickets for himself and his wife on tomorrow's ship to America. They are German immigrants hiding from ...

Ziggy Jepsen, a prisoner in a Hamburg juvenile colony, receives a German penalty lesson for not delivering a essay on “The Joy of a Duty”. Yozvig himself, the beloved overseer, escorts the young man to the punishment cell, where he will “open the fireproof closet of memories and push through the dormant ...

Retired Major von Tellheim lives in a Berlin hotel with his faithful servant Just, with no livelihood. The innkeeper moves him from a decent room to a wretched room. The last two months Tellheim did not pay bills, and the room is needed by the “visiting lady”, young and beautiful ...

The main city of Sichuan province, which summarizes all the places on the globe and any time that a person exploits a person, is the place and time of the play. Prologue. For two millennia the cry has not stopped: it cannot go on like this! No one in this world is able to be ...

Already an adult tells his childhood memories. The hero meets Little Flour as a child. “At that time, Little Muck was already an old man, but he was tiny. He looked rather ridiculous: a huge head was hanging on a small, skinny little body, much more than others ...

The novel is stylized as an old German story. The story begins around 1521. Franz Sternbald, an artist, a young student of Albrecht Dürer, the famous German painter, leaves Nuremberg and embarks on a long journey to reach Italy and learn mastery ...

A young shooter named Christian sat thoughtfully in the middle of the mountains, near a hunting hut, waiting for game, and recalled the past, how in his youth he had left his homeland behind in the hope of “breaking out of the circle of everything that he was used to from childhood ...” and find your happiness in a foreign land. Sad, he left his ...

September 6, 1958. On this day, one of the main characters of the novel, the architect Heinrich Femel, turns eighty years old. An anniversary is a good occasion to evaluate your life. More than fifty years ago, he appeared in this city, almost at the last moment submitted his project for construction ...