This collection from one of the great writers of Europe's Jewish diaspora shows the heat of individual passions blazing out against the levelling forces of history. In stories that move back through time from the First World War to Ancient Rome, we encounter heroes and bookworms, visionaries and gadabouts, patriarchs and rebel children - all tied together across the centuries by their faith and by the intensity with which they live and die.In 'Mendel the Bibliophile', a bookseller's obsession with his wares blinds him to the progress of war and the threat it poses to his own life. Monomania is also an overpowering force in 'Downfall of the Heart', in which an aging father cannot accept his daughter's embrace of new freedoms. 'The Miracles of Life' is a masterfully ironic tale, which plays with the tension between faith and morality, society and individual, against the backdrop of 16th-century Antwerp and the Dutch rebellion against Spanish rule. 'In the Snow' sees a Jewish community in medieval Eastern Europe fleeing the violence of a Christian sect. And in the longest piece in the collection, the novella The Buried Candelabrum, we go all the way back to the ancient world, where the recovery of a sacred seven-branched candlestick stolen during the sack of Rome will become a young boy's life's mission.
Maria Stuart
Stefan Zweig
audiobookbookTriumph und Tragik des Erasmus von Rotterdam
Stefan Zweig
audiobookbookLeo Tolstoi: Die große Hörbuch Box : Die Kreutzersonate und weitere Erzählungen
Leo Tolstoi, Stefan Zweig
audiobookSternstunden der Menschheit
Stefan Zweig
audiobookbookMaria Stuart
Stefan Zweig
audiobookMaria Stuart: Historischer Roman : Eine Darstellung historischer Tatsachen und eine spannende Erzählung über das Leben einer leidenschaftlichen, aber widersprüchlichen Frau
Stefan Zweig
bookMaria Stuart : Die romanhafte Biographie von Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
bookReisen in Europa komplett
Stefan Zweig
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 51-55
Frank Wedekind, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Heym, Charles Baudelaire, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Christian Morgenstern, Joachim Ringelnatz, Arno Holz, Wilhelm Busch, Heinrich Heine, Stefan Zweig, Georg Trakl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Tieck, Edgar Allan Poe
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 41-45
Karl Kraus, Charles Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wolfgang Borchert, Georg Trakl, Wilhelm Busch, John Keats, Georg Heym, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Else Lasker-Schüler, Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Arno Holz, Friedrich Nietzsche, Stefan Zweig, Ludwig Tieck, Frank Wedekind, Joachim Ringelnatz, Christian Morgenstern
audiobookLyrikalische Lesung Episoden 36-40
John Keats, Georg Heym, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Wilhelm Busch, Joachim Ringelnatz, Arno Holz, Stefan Zweig, Rainer Maria Rilke, Edgar Allan Poe, Ludwig Tieck, Charles Baudelaire, Frank Wedekind, Ludwig Kalisch, Heinrich Heine, Kurt Tucholsky, Franz Werfel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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