Authors: Ertl, Emil, 1860-1935

In Sociology

By Abil Kile

"Der Berg der Läuterung" by Emil Ertl is a collection of stories written in the early 20th century. Framed by a Dantean motif of trial and purification, it portrays post–World War I Viennese lives tested by vanity, poverty, and moral choice. The pieces follow elegant and fallen households, clerks and craftsmen, and the uneasy bargains between love,...

Authors: Knopf, Emilie

In Anthropology

By Abil Kile

"Der Liebe Lust und Leid der Frau zur Frau" by Emilie Knopf is an erotic novel written in the late 19th century. The work examines women’s same-sex desire within fashionable society, following the refined narrator Felicita and her captivating beloved Edita as admiration blossoms into passion, jealousy, and self-justification. Framed as a caution ag...

Authors: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

In Gender Studies

By Abil Kile

"Sämtliche Werke 21 : Der Spieler. Der ewige Gatte : Zwei Romane" by Dostoyevsky is a collection of two novels written in the late 19th century. The volume couples a tale of gambling fever and romantic obsession at a European spa with a stark psychological study of jealousy and humiliation. In the first, a young Russian tutor is drawn to the roulet...

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In Anthropology

By Abil Kile

"Frühling : Der deutsche Lenz und was er blühn und werden läßt" by Ernst Weber et al. is an anthology of German poetry and prose written in the early 20th century. Gathered for youth and general readers, it celebrates the German spring in songs, poems, a fairy tale, and short prose pieces by both classic and folk voices. Expect nature’s awakening—b...

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In Cultural Analysis

By Abil Kile

Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz — Mitteilungen Band XV, Heft 7–10… is a regional heritage periodical (collection of essays) written in the early 20th century. It examines the Leipzig region through landscape history, ecology, folklore, and monument care, with a clear conservationist outlook. Expect detailed pieces on the geological making of ...

Authors: Feuerbach, Anselm, Ritter von, 1775-1833

In Sociology

By Abil Kile

"Kaspar Hauser : Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben des Menschen" by Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach is a legal-psychological case study written in the early 19th century. It investigates the sensational appearance of the foundling Kaspar Hauser in Nuremberg, recording his condition, behaviors, and the documents and objects found with him. Throu...

Authors: Bonin, Elsa von, 1882-1965

In Sociology

By Abil Kile

"Das Leben der Renée von Catte : Roman" by Elsa von Bonin is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in a Prussian aristocratic world from country estate to Berlin court society, it follows the sensitive Renée von Catte from a lonely, willful childhood into her social debut, tracing her search for friendship, love, and a self she can live wi...

Authors: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881

In Cultural Analysis

By Abil Kile

"Sämtliche Werke 20 : Aus dem Dunkel der Großstadt : Acht Novellen" by Dostoyevsky is a collection of novellas written in the mid to late 19th century. The volume gathers eight Petersburg-centered tales of urban alienation and moral struggle, spotlighting clerks, students, and other castaways as they battle conscience, poverty, and the pressures of...

Authors: Heilbut, Iwan, 1898-1972

In Gender Studies

By Abil Kile

"Zu stark für dies Leben : Als Fortsetzungsroman im »Vorwärts« (1927)" by Iwan Heilbut is a novel written in the early 20th century. It appears to be a socially critical office-and-labor drama following the aging clerk Jakob Grahl as he struggles against humiliating management, looming layoffs, and the machinery of a big department store’s bureaucr...