Books from Austria
113 popular austrian books
Travel the world without leaving your chair.
The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Austria.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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Le Joueur d'échecs by Stefan Zweig FR
Description:
Sur un paquebot reliant New York à Buenos Aires, en 1939, le champion du monde d'échecs est mis en difficulté par un inconnu lors d'une partie improvisée. L'homme, qui affirme ne pas s'être assis devant un échiquier depuis plus de vingt ans, confie au narrateur sa terrible histoire : rescapé de la terreur nazie en Autriche, il a été soumis pendant plusieurs mois à la torture psychologique d'un isolement total, auquel seul le jeu d'échecs, qu'il pratiquait mentalement, lui a permis d'échapper... Le Joueur d'échecs, que Zweig rédigea en 1941 depuis l'exil et qu'il acheva peu de temps avant de se... continue
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Le Noël de Madeleine by Ludwig Bemelmans FR
Description:
With everyone else sick in bed with a cold on Christmas eve, it is up to Madeline to run the school and she finds a remarkable helper in a rug-selling magician.
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Lena : unser Dorf und der Krieg by Käthe Recheis DE
Description:
Das Buch beschreibt wie das österreichische Mädchen Lena die Nazizeit erlebt.
Es werden viele Themen angesprochen, z.B. der Anschluß Österreichs, der Holocaust, Euthanasie, Bombenangriffe, Hitlerjugend u.v.m.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig EN
Description:
One of Stefan Zweig's best loved stories in a brand new translation by Anthea Bell, along with three other Zweig tales never before translated into English.
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Lumea de ieri by Stefan Zweig RO
Description:
Evoluţia Europei între 1895 şi 1941, într-una din cele mai importante cărţi-document ale epocii noastre
„Lumea de ieri“ este Viena şi Europa de dinaintea Primului Război Mondial: o lume sigură, stabilă şi armonioasă, unde libertatea de spirit domnea neştirbită. Lumea în care s-a născut şi a început să scrie, cunoscând celebritatea, Stefan Zweig, în care el a călătorit, s-a îndrăgostit de cultura franceză, a legat mari prietenii intelectuale. Odată cu catastrofa din 1914, lumea aceasta dispare treptat: tronurile se prăbuşesc, ideile se tu... continue
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Description:
In post-World War II Austria, Gerti, a woman on the verge of a breakdown due to her husband's relentless sexual attentions, wanders away from home one day and is rescued by an ambitious young man who turns out to be much like her husband.
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Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans EN
Description:
Madeline, smallest and naughtiest of the twelve little charges of Miss Clavel, wakes up one night with an attack of appendicitis.
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Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann EN
Description:
Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined. An unnamed narrator is haunted by nightmarish memories of her father and desperate for the attentions of her lover. Her only companion is the androgynous Malina with whom she lives, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an ominous influence. Plunging towards its riveting finale, Malina lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourse between men and women.