Alfred de Musset est un po?te et dramaturge fran?ais du XIXe si?cle qui a sa place au Panth?on des romantiques.
«La Confession d’un enfant du si?cle» est une de ses œuvres les plus connues; il y parle des maux de sa g?n?ration, blas?e et...
Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hoffmann – ber?hmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt, Kriminalgeschichten und ungew?hnliche Abenteuer unvermittelt ineinander ?ber.
„Lebens-Ansichten des Katers Murr“ ist der...
Enjoying the comforts of his well-kept home, country doctor William Harrison is prevailed upon by his longtime friend Charles, a bachelor, to dispense some advice on the «wooing and winning» of women’s affections. Lured to rural Duncombe by the...
A fallen woman would seem a less-than-ideal choice for a Victorian heroine. Elizabeth Gaskell courageously created just such a portrait in her Ruth. Overturning the conventional assumption that a woman once seduced is condemned to exclusion from...