Stones from the River
Trudi Montag is born a dwarf in a small German river town in 1915 and grows up to keep the town's library and its secrets, from the First World War to the…
2,818-word summary · 13 min read
Tag: german literature
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Faust, Part One
A restless scholar bets his soul against one perfect moment, then ruins an innocent girl in Goethe's 1808 verse tragedy.
2,568-word summary · 11 min read
The Sorrows of Young Werther
A young artist writes letters about his love for Lotte, promised to another, until feeling turns fatal in Goethe's 1774 classic.
2,934-word summary · 13 min read
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A prophet comes down from ten years alone to preach the overman after the death of God.
1,983-word summary · 9 min read
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Zipes translates all 156 tales from the Grimms' 1812 and 1815 first edition, rougher and stranger than the famous 1857 versions.
2,331-word summary · 10 min read