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Ein einzigartiges Panorama des Berliner Lebens in der Nazizeit: Hans Falladas eindrückliche und berührende Darstellung des Widerstands der kleinen Leute avanciert rund sechzig Jahre nach der Entstehung zum internationalen... See More
Classics
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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for... See More
Classics
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 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all... See More
Action & Adventure
Hailed as "Fallada's best book" (The New Yorker), this sprawling post-WWI is a portrait of Berlin in a time of great upheaval -- and of the common man's struggle to survive it all Set in Weimar Germany soon after Germany's... See More
Historical Fiction
One of the great German writers of the 20th century draws from his own life to present a "brave, fearless, and honest" tale of one man's dark descent into depression and alcoholism (The Sunday Times, London) This... See More
Historical Fiction
The return of a "superb" forgotten masterpiece about a young couple living in Weimar Germany during the Nazi's rise to power (Graham Greene) Written just before the Nazis came to power, this darkly enchanting novel tells... See More
Essays & Correspondence
"I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses." Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship... See More
Short Stories
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... See More
Classics
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... See More
Literary Fiction
Almost 100 years after Hans Fallada committed himself to prison, previously unpublished and rewritten stories by the bestselling mid-century German author have been discovered. It was the turning point before he became a... See More
Biography & True AccountsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
THE ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'One of the most extraordinary and compelling novels written about World War II. Ever' Alan Furst Inspired by a true story, Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin is a gripping wartime... See More
Historical Fiction
The writer Dr. Doll strives to find his place in postwar Germany in Hans Fallada's autobiographical novel Nightmare. Dr. Doll is plagued by nightmares at night. The war, in which the writer is morally implicated, is nearing... See More
Classics
Available for the first time in English, here is an unforgettable portrayal by a master novelist of the physical and psychological devastation wrought in the homeland by Hitler's war. Late April, 1945. The war is over, yet... See More
eBooks in Foreign Languages
"Was nun?" - in Zeiten der Weltwirtschaftskrise: Falladas Antwort auf diese Frage der kleinen Leute ist Lämmchen, diese sanfte und tapfere Frau, die das Leben ihres verzweifelten Mannes in die Hände nimmt. Beide glauben an... See More
Classics
'... I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a... See More
NonfictionGustav Hackendahl is a prosperous businessman with his taxi company and a cruel father to his five children. On July 29, 1914, the day of the killing in Sarajevo, his world falls apart. His favored son robs the family... See More
World Literature
Best way to learn German by reading Learn German with the first part of the famous novel Jeder stirbt für sich allein or Every man dies alone, an intense story about a simple German worker couple who stands up to Hitler... See More
Historical FictionFallada's early recollections Similar to "Tales from the Murkelei," the experienced and the imagined are combined in a pleasing manner here. Fallada describes his boyhood and adolescence in the "reichsgerichtliche" paternal... See More
Biography & True AccountsHans Fallada resides "at home" in Mecklenburg, in Carwitz. Since 1933, he has resided on his farm with his wife, Suse, and their three children, Uli, Mücke, and Achim. Here, he discusses them and rural life in general... See More
NonfictionBook: "What bliss it was to close the curtains, shut out the world, and be alone with the books, clean paper, and a decent pen, with which one might arrange infinite rows among themselves, as soon as it dawned. What a... See More
Coming of Age
The perilous pursuit of happiness The youthful lord of Strammin is only expected to deliver 400 hundredweight of wheat to Stralsund's harbor. But then things take a turn for the worst. He meets the lovely Catriona, is... See More
Fantasy
"The folks lived in the house near the lake, while the badger stayed in the cave on Baumwerder's southern slope. (... ) Fridolin was uninterested in the alterations to the house, but the fact that these people erected fences... See More
Children's eBooksHans Fallada's "Stories from the Murkelei" is a collection of short stories first published in 1947. The collection contains eleven stories, each with its own set of characters and plotlines. The stories range from hilarious... See More
However, no of how diligently he labored, the mound of tasks before him could never be removed completely (... ). The little scribe became almost depressed over this, and when he looked into his counterpart's serious, gray... See More
NonfictionThe Drunkard is the story of an alcoholic's journey from a harmless glass of wine to a sanatorium. Using his own experiences as inspiration, Hans Fallada penned the novel while incarcerated. It begins with a glass of wine to... See More
FantasyOld heart embarks on a journey is a contemporary fairy tale in which love, faith, and integrity ultimately win. Professor Gotthold Kittguß is an elderly yet still attractive man. He taught ancient languages and religion at... See More
Genre FictionThe sequel to Hans Fallada's classic novel brings us to Berlin in the late 1920s. Poverty, crime, and political turmoil define the city. Former soldier Wolfgang Pagel and his sweetheart Petra Ledig are attempting to start a... See More
UrbanAn epic character study and a "classic" of German literature because of its complexity of characters and plot. This work, with its pared-down narrative structure and heavy reliance on conversation, is typical of the New... See More