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Ulrich Baer

    This author engages in in-depth conversations about great books and powerful ideas, exploring complex emotions like loss and transformation. His work seeks to capture the essence of human experience through both literary and visual mediums. As a translator and editor, he brings a unique perspective to his writing, infusing it with a nuanced understanding of texts. His literary contributions invite readers to contemplate the fundamental aspects of life.

    We Are But a Moment
    Monday or Tuesday
    The Rilke alphabet
    To the Lighthouse
    The Call of the Wild
    Pride and prejudice
    • 2024

      Deer Black Out poetically constructs an impossible technology of presencing and presenting gay Southern gothic hauntings.

      Deer Black Out
    • 2023

      Monday or Tuesday

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.6(73)Add rating

      Originally hand-printed at her Hogarth Press in Richmond, Monday or Tuesday is the only collection of short stories that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime, providing a fascinating insight into the early stages of development of themes that would blossom in her later masterpieces.

      Monday or Tuesday
    • 2023

      To the Lighthouse

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      4.2(342)Add rating

      This is the story of the Ramsays, based on Virginia Woolf's own family. Written in the stream-of-consciousness style, the book examines family relationships, the traditional roles of the sexes, the tensions and love between husband and wife and the resentment children can feel for their parents.

      To the Lighthouse
    • 2021

      When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor, Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. This novel shows the folly of judging by first impressions and evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

      Pride and prejudice
    • 2020

      The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.

      The Call of the Wild
    • 2017

      We Are But a Moment

      • 376 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      The narrative explores the urgent global challenges of the near future, including overpopulation, dwindling natural resources, climate change, species extinction, and economic instability. Through a brisk journey across various regions, it vividly illustrates the interconnectedness of these crises and their potential impact on humanity. The book serves as a thought-provoking reflection on the pressing issues facing our world today.

      We Are But a Moment
    • 2014

      Analysis of twenty-six words that cast new light on Rilke's poetry, prose, and letters from unexpected angles, tracing and explaining the logic by which poetry wrests extraordinary meaning from ordinary language.

      The Rilke alphabet