Enrico Ganni Book order (chronological)

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered advice from a stranger in the crowd - a man who will risk everything to win. Stefan Zweig's acclaimed novella Chess is a disturbing, intensely dramatic depiction of obsession and the price of genius.

Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, wakes one morning to find himself transformed into an insect.

Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation.

In 12 dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, encounters a sly, clever number devil who introduces him to the wonders of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, and numbers that expand without end.

Paul Watzlawick, der Meister des »Unglücklichseins«, führt mit vielen wunderbaren Beispielen vor, wie wir, ferngelenkt von der finsteren Schicksalsgöttin Hekate, unermüdlich den scheinbar 100-prozentigen Lösungen aufsitzen, weil ein ehrbares Prinzip oder das Streben nach Sicherheit und Glück übersehen lässt, dass die Lösung eines Problems oft nur ein Trugschluss ist.