Joachim Neugroschel
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"In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan remains in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have retired and gone their separate ways. Unbeknownst to D'Artagnan, Aramis and Porthos plot to remove the inept king and place the king's twin brother on the throne of France. Meanwhile, a twenty-three-year-old prisoner known only as "Phillippe" wastes away deep inside...
2) Siddhartha
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A young man, blessed with loving parents and a safe home in a world where want and neglect abound, leaves his family in search of himself. He joins the Samanas, a band of wandering ascetics without possessions or earthly ties. His quest unfulfilled, he descends into a life of unbounded luxury and indulgence. Where is truth? Where will his soul find true ease, in denial, in decadence, or in some truth far greater than himself, so simple, so close to...
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c1998, 1999
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Neugroschel reinterprets Thomas Mann for modern English-speaking readers. These works subtly explore the great themes of Mann's fiction -- his mythic fascination with sexual inhibition and artistic creativity. / Contents The will for happiness -- Little Herr Friedemann -- Tobias Mindernickel -- Little Lizzy -- Gladius dei -- Tristan -- The starvelings -- Tonio Kröger -- The wunderkind -- Harsh hour -- Blood of the Walsungs -- Death in Venice.
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