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Michael Mathias Prechtl

    Charakter-Bilder
    Denkmalerei
    Reineke Fuchs
    Candide or optimism
    The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
    How Much Land Does A Man Need?
    • How Much Land Does A Man Need?

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      A parable of a Russian peasant's bargain with the devil - considered by James Joyce to be the world's greatest story.

      How Much Land Does A Man Need?
      4.1
    • Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the worshipper and frequenter of the great men of his time, the 'divine' Michelangelo, who came to his studio, the 'marvellous' Titian (the adjectives are Cellini's ).

      The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
      4.0
    • Candide or optimism

      • 163 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaireʹs masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair.

      Candide or optimism
      3.7
    • Reineke Fuchs

      • 219 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Zur mittelalterlichen Fabel vom schlauen Fuchs, deren erzählerischer Fundus seit Hinrek von Almarks Reynke de Vos (1498) festgeschrieben war, meinte Goethe in einem Xenion von 1796: \"Vor Jahrhunderten hätte ein Dichter dieses gesungen / Wie ist das möglich? Der Stoff ist ja von gestern und heut.\" [Klappentext]

      Reineke Fuchs
      3.0
    • Die Intime Sitten- Und Kulturgeschichte Des Abendlandes -- Dürer-suite -- Kopfe Und Gesichter -- Öffentliche Bilder -- Bilder Zum Lesen. Michael Mathias Prechtl ; Herausgegeben Von Christoph Stölzl.

      Denkmalerei