And Never Said a Word
by Heinrich Boll | 
Man of Straw
by Heinrich Mann |
Lotte in Weimar
by Thomas Mann | 
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Meeting at Telgte
by Gunter Grass | 
Going to the Dogs
by Erich Kastner | 
Weights and Measures
by Joseph Roth | 
The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt
by Wilhelm Genazino | 
Pigeons on the Grass
by Wolfgang Koeppen |
The Blue Angel
by Heinrich Mann | 
The Clown
by Heinrich Boll |
Royal Highness
by Thomas Mann | 
The Guiltless
by Hermann Broch |
The Spider's Web
by Joseph Roth |
The Drinker
by Hans Fallada | 
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck | 
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens | 
Room
by Emma Donoghue | 
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder | 
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner |
A fable-like short novel about two lovers who, during a summertime idyll in the Swedish countryside, encounter a crying young girl running for her life from a children's home run by a sadistic headmistress, Castle Gripsholm is one of the undisputed classics of modern German literature. It is a parable of devastating beauty and malice, as exuberant and lyrical in its descriptions of nature and pastoral innocence as it is bitter and undermining in its contempt for the Nazi regime that forced the author into exile, publicly burned his books, and persecuted him until his early death.