Thomas Mann
Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Contents:
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...
62) Buddenbrooks
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Film adaptation of Thomas Mann's story of three generations of the Buddenbrooks family from Lübeck, Germany, and how they struggle to maintain their status as one of the city's most wealthy and respected families.
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
"¡Bienvenido a otro volumen de la Colección Mejores! Cuentos, una selección de relatos escritos en diferentes épocas por autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temas muy variados, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y quizás la más importante: la de brindar placer al lector. En este ebook, presentamos los Mejores Cuentos Alemanes, , una selección de relatos memorables escritos por grandes autores de cuentos franceses, tanto antiguos...
64) Our house
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring inventor Ethan drops out of college and moves back home to take care of his younger siblings, Matt and Becca, when their parents die in a tragic car accident. While struggling with his newfound responsibilities, Ethan experiments in the garage with a device he hopes will generate wireless electricity. The machine instead seems to wake dead spirits in the home and the siblings struggle to contact their parents while grappling with the realization...
65) Fun Size
Author
Language
English
Description
Wren is a whip girl whose plans to attend the high school event of the year ends when she has to babysit her brother. When he disappears, Wren must set out to find him before her mom discovers heʼs missing.
67) Memoria
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on James Franco's "Palo Alto Stories" and "A California Childhood", Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn't know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world.
68) Death in Venice
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A famous composer takes a vacation in Venice, where he becomes obsessed with a young man. When a cholera epidemic takes over the city, he does not leave, just to stay near the boy.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
71) Doktor Faustus
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Deutsch
Description
The tale of a composer who sells his soul to Satan to ensure his own creativity, but finds he cannot keep to his bargain to refrain from all close human relationships and his closest friends die as a result.
73) Emily and Tim
Author
Language
English
Description
Portrayed by six diverse sets of actors, the tumultuous marriage of Emily and Tim demonstrates that no matter who we are - man, woman, black, white, gay, straight - we all love the same.
Publisher
Alcon Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When newcomer Lena arrives in the small town of Gatlin she quickly captures the attention of Ethan, who only wants to escape what he views as a boring and dead end town. He quickly gets more than he bargained for. Together, they uncover dark secrets about their respective families, their history and their town.
75) Death in Venice
Series
Criterion collection volume 962
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach takes a convalescent holiday at the Venice Lido after the death of his child and the disastrous reception of his new compositions. Bored, he indulges an idle, whimsical, faintly epicurean interest in a beautiful boy sporting on the beach.