Auf dem Hohepunkt der Inflation: Drei ehemalige Soldaten versuchen im hektischen Berlin und auf dem Rittergut Neulohe trotz rasender Geldentwertung ihr Schicksal in die Hand zu nehmen. – Hans Fallada hat den Roman uber die Schrecken der Inflation geschrieben, eine epische Chronik jener dramatischen Zeit, in der viele ihr Gluck suchten, aber nur wenige es fanden. Mit einem Nachwort zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans
3115 Руб.
Previously unpublished stories by the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. In September 1925, Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police. Not yet a bestselling author, Fallada had repeatedly embezzled funds to finance his alcohol and morphine addictions. Desperate to escape his demons, he sought a prison cell. Now court documents from Fallada's imprisonment have recently been uncovered, and with them a never-before-seen collection of short stories. Through complex characters at odds with society, Fallada explored the lived the lives of women and male outsiders. These stories reveal to a new generation of readers Fallada's immense gifts and his intense inner battles.
1880 Руб.
Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime thriller following one ordinary man's determination to defy the tyranny of Nazi rule Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists the Persickes, the retired judge Fromm and the unassuming couple Otto and Anna Quangel. Then the Quangels receive the news that their beloved son has been killed fighting in France. Shocked out of their quiet existence, they begin a silent campaign of defiance, and a deadly game of cat and mouse develops between the Quangels and the ambitious Gestapo inspector Escherich. When petty criminals Kluge and Borkhausen also become involved, deception, betrayal and murder ensue, tightening the noose around the Quangels' necks ... This Penguin Classics edition contains an afterword by Geoff Wilkes, as well as facsimiles of the original Gestapo file which inspired the novel.
2420 Руб.
A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin) It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials. A mysterious travelling salesman from Berlin, Henning, is stirring up trouble - but no one knows why. Meanwhile the Nazis grow stronger and the Communists fight them in the streets. And at the centre of it all, the Mayor, 'Fatty' Gareis, seeks the easy life even as events spiral beyond his control. As tensions erupt between workers and bosses, town and country, Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence.
2421 Руб.
Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in Berlin In these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes. Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.
2419 Руб.
From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lammchen and 'Boy' live in Berlin in 1932, and everything is changing. As they desperately try to make ends meet amid bullying bosses, unpaid bills, monstrous mothers-in-law and Nazi streetfighters, will love be enough? The novel that made Hans Fallada's name as a writer, Little Man, What Now? tells the story of one of European literature's most touching couples and is filled with an extraordinary mixture of comedy and desperation. It was published just before Hitler came to power and remains a haunting portrayal of innocents whose world is about to be swept away forever. This brilliant new translation by Michael Hofmann brings to life an entire era of austerity and turmoil in Weimar Germany.
2384 Руб.
Mit epischer Wucht erzahlt Fallada in diesem zeitgeschichtlichen Roman, der ihn beruhmt machte, vom Kampf des Landvolkes gegen die verhasste Burokratie in einer norddeutschen Kleinstadt, der sich zum Kampf aller gegen alle ausweitet. Intrige, Geldgier, Ehrgeiz und politische Ranke beherrschen das Feld. Fallada gelang damit ein Miniaturmodell der kranken Republik von Weimar, die sich ihren Henkern selbst auslieferte. Mit einem Nachwort zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans
3115 Руб.
Warmherzig und voller Dramatik erzahlt dieser Eheroman von dem kleinen Angestellten Johannes Pinneberg und seiner Frau «Lammchen», die ein Kind erwartet. Als Pinneberg seine Stellung als Buchhalter verliert, geht das junge Paar nach Berlin. Beide glauben an die Liebe, doch das Gluck will sich in Zeiten der Weltwirtschaftskrise nicht einstellen. Und so nimmt Lammchen ihr gemeinsames Leben energisch in die Hand: Sie kampft der Not zum Trotz um ihr zartlich-idyllisches Gluck. Mit einem Nachwort zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans
3990 Руб.
Ein sechzehnjahriger Waisenjunge kommt nach Berlin und will es hier zu Reichtum und Macht bringen. Kauzige und kernige, liebenswerte und fragwurdige Menschen kreuzen seinen Weg nach oben – und immer wieder sind es die Frauen, die zu ihm halten und denen er seinen Erfolg verdankt. Ein packender Roman, voll unverwustlichem Berliner Humor, in dem sich zweieinhalb Jahrzehnte wechselvoller deutscher Geschichte spiegeln. Mit einem Nachwort zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans
3368 Руб.
Dieser nach Gestapoakten geschriebene Roman des volkstumlichen deutschen Erzahlers schildert das Schicksal des Berliner Arbeiterehepaars Quangel, das, vom Kriegstod des Sohnes aufgeruttelt, Widerstand auf eigenen Faust wagt. Die Maschinerie eines brutalen Totalitarismus zermalmt die alten Leute schlie?lich. Mit einem Nachwort zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans
4599 Руб.
A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin 'This remarkable work, now complete after 76 years, could well be one of the finest novels any of us will ever read' Irish Times Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. As war breaks out and Gustav's beloved Germany is devastated by hardship and violence, he finds everything he believes in destroyed. Can the man of iron endure, or even change? Brutal and moving, written with Hans Fallada's gift for capturing the small tragedies of ordinary lives, Iron Gustav is a heartbreaking family chronicle and an unflinching portrayal of the First World War and its aftermath.
2421 Руб.
Der volkstumliche deutsche Erzahler und Chronist der Krisenjahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg schildert in diesem heiteren Roman das zweifelhafte Gluck einer plotzlichen Erbschaft in Gestalt gro?er Landerein mit Schlo? und Park, die den kleinen Kontoristen Schreyvogel zum Schlo?besitzer macht. Aus Freunden werden Neider und Darlehenssucher, aus Traumen ungute Wirklichkeit, und Lebens- und Ehegluck waren dahin, wenn die junge, resolute Frau Karla nicht lieber die Erbschaft opferte als ihren Mann.
2120 Руб.
Willi Kufalt wird nach funf Jahren aus dem Gefangnis entlassen. Straffallig will er nie mehr werden, doch es gelingt ihm nicht, eine burgerliche Existenz aufzubauen. Kufalt scheitert an den Vorurteilen seiner Umwelt, einer unehrlichen Gefangenenfursorge und seiner eigenen Labilitat. Am Ende ist er wieder da, wo er mit dem Leben zurechtkommt und sich deshalb zu Hause fuhlt: im Gefangnis. Mit einem Nachwort zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Romans
2443 Руб.
Fifty new books at 1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany
417 Руб.
A dead wolf A drug deal gone wrong A lethal female assassin Hannah Wester, a detective in the remote northern Swedish town of Haparanda, finds herself on the precipice of chaos. When human remains are found in the stomach of a dead wolf, Hannah knows that this summer won't be like any other. The remains are soon linked to a bloody drug deal that went down just across the border in Finland. But how did the victim end up in the woods outside Haparanda? And where have the drugs and money gone? Hannah and her colleagues are soon caught up in an increasingly complex investigation. But time is scarce and they aren't the only ones looking. When the secretive and deadly Katja shows up, unexpected and brutal events start to pile up. In just a few days, life in the border town is turned upside down. Not least for Hannah, who is finally forced to confront her own past.
1042 Руб.
Berlin, 1940. Otto und Anna Quangel schreiben gefahrliche Postkarten und legen sie in Hausern aus. So wollen sie die Deutschen wecken und warnen: Hitler ist zu lange an der Macht, der Krieg bedeutet das Ende Deutschlands. Mit diesem kleinen Widerstand riskiert das Paar sein Leben. Wird Kommissar Escherich die Kartenschreiber finden? Wer kann ihm helfen? Und wer hilft den Quangels?
1551 Руб.
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