General Books

No golden eagle, warm from the stamping press of the mint, is more sharply impressed with its image and superscription than was the formative period of our government by the genius and personality of Thomas Jefferson. Standing on the threshold of the nineteenth century, no one who attempted to peer down the shadowy vista, saw more clearly than he the possibilities, the perils, the pitfalls and the... more...

It would appear that for inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions... more...

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When a popular writer dies, the question it has become the fashion with a nervous generation to ask is the question, ‘Will he live?’  There was no idler question, none more hopelessly impossible and unprofitable to answer.  It is one of the many vanities of criticism to promise immortality to the authors that it praises, to patronise a writer with the assurance that our... more...

Dieses Buch ist der zweite Band zu Mein Leben in Kambodscha. Es setzt dort an, wo der erste Band endet, und richtet sich an Leserinnen und Leser, die entweder mit der Vorgeschichte vertraut sind oder sich für die realen Konsequenzen eines Lebens im Ausland interessieren. Im Mittelpunkt steht kein Neuanfang aus freien Stücken, sondern eine Phase, in der Entscheidungen notwendig werden. Der Autor... more...