Authors: Brod, Max, 1884-1968

In Gender Studies

By Abil Kile

"Adolf Schreiber: Ein Musikerschicksal" by Max Brod is a biographical memoir written in the early 20th century. It portrays the gifted yet self-effacing composer and kapellmeister Adolf Schreiber as he struggles with poverty, self-doubt, and the indifferent machinery of the theater world, even as his songs reveal a rare, individual voice. The portr...

Authors: Rummel, Walter, 1873-1953

In Cultural Analysis

By Abil Kile

Sonnenländer by Walter Rummel is a travelogue written in the early 20th century. It follows a sun-seeking traveler through the tropics and subtropics—most vividly Japan and the Western Pacific—mixing vivid nature writing with keen observations of everyday life and custom. Readers can expect intimate portraits of people and places, as well as firsth...

Authors: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

In Anthropology

By Abil Kile

"Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten" by Sigmund Freud is a psychoanalytic treatise written in the early 20th century. The work explores how jokes operate, why they please, and how their linguistic form reveals unconscious processes, connecting wit to the comic, dreams, and social interaction. It proposes a systematic account of joke techni...

Authors: May, Karl, 1842-1912

In Sociology

By Abil Kile

"Durchs wilde Kurdistan" by Karl May is an adventure novel written in the late 19th century. Set among Kurdish tribes and the Yazidi community, it follows a European narrator known as the Emir and his loyal companion Hadschi Halef Omar as they navigate religious rites, tribal politics, and looming conflict with Ottoman forces. The story blends trav...

Authors: Jacques, Norbert, 1880-1954

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By Abil Kile

"Piraths Insel : Roman" by Norbert Jacques is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows industrialist Peter Pirath as his marriage to the fierce, capricious Ree implodes, drawing him into public scandal and propelling him from a constricting bourgeois world toward an overseas venture linked to his coconut‑oil enterprise. With his pragma...

Authors: Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus), 1776-1822

In Gender Studies

By Abil Kile

"Die Elixiere des Teufels : Nachgelassene Papiere des Bruders Medardus, eines…." by E. T. A. Hoffmann is a novel written in the early 19th century. It is a Gothic, confessional tale framed as the posthumous papers of a Capuchin monk, charting spiritual temptation, pride, visions, and the lure of a diabolical elixir. The story centers on Brother Med...

Authors: Andree, Richard, 1835-1912

In Cultural Analysis

By Abil Kile

"Die Anthropophagie" by Richard Andree is an ethnographic study written in the late 19th century. It examines habitual cannibalism as a cultural practice—excluding famine-driven cases—across prehistory, classical sources, European folklore, and contemporary societies worldwide. The work assembles evidence, classifies motives (vengeance, ritual, mag...

Authors: Urbanitzky, Grete von, 1891-1974

In Anthropology

By Abil Kile

"Der wilde Garten" by Grete von Urbanitzky is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows the devoted teacher Fräulein Dr. Hanna Südekum as she tries to guide adolescent girls—especially Gertrud—through awakening, rebellion, and the constraints and blind spots of adult society while confronting her own loneliness. Parallel strands with a ...

Authors: Weber, Batty, 1860-1940

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By Abil Kile

"Fenn Kaß : Der Roman eines Erlösten" by Batty Weber is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows a gifted village boy from Luxembourg, Fenn Kaß, as he leaves his rural Catholic world for a city seminary, torn between a priestly path and his fascination with machines. Around him move classmates Heine “Putty” Heinen and Fritz Lamp...