Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (4405)
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The Plug-In Drug : Television, Computers, and Family Life by Marie Winn EN
Country: Europe / 
Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
How does the passive act of watching television and other electronic media-regardless of their content-affect a developing child's relationship to the real world? Focusing on this crucial question, Marie Winn takes a compelling look at television's impact on children and the family. Winn's classic study has been extensively updated to address the new media landscape, including new sections on: computers, video games, the VCR, the V-Chip and other control devices, TV programming for babies, television and physical health, and gaining control of your TV.
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Another Fine Mess : America, Uganda, and the War on Terror by Helen Epstein EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Is the West to blame for the agony of Uganda and its neighbors? In this powerful account of Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni's 30 year reign, Helen Epstein chronicles how Western leaders' single-minded focus on the War on Terror and their naïve dealings with strongmen are at the root of much of the turmoil in eastern and central Africa. Museveni's involvement in the conflicts in Sudan, South Sudan, Rwanda, Congo, and Somalia has earned him substantial amounts of military and development assistance, as well as near-total impunity. It has also short-circuited the power the people of this region ... continue
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Cartea râsului şi a uitării by Milan Kundera RO
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
„Această carte este în totalitatea ei un roman în formă de variaţiuni. În succesiunea lor, fiecare capitol constituie o etapă diferită a unei călătorii ce duce în interiorul unei teme, în interiorul unei idei, în interiorul unei situaţii unice, a cărei înţelegere se pierde pentru mine în nemărginire. E un roman despre Tamina şi, din clipa în care Tamina părăseşte scena, devine un roman pentru Tamina.Ea este personajul principal şi principalul ascultător, toate celelalte întâmplări fiind o variaţiune a propriei sale poveşti... continue
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Mr. Theodore Mundstock by Ladislav Fuks EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
1969, mass market paperback reprint edition, in English (translated from the Czech), Ballantine, NY. 223 pages. "This title will haunt you long after you finish reading it ... a beautifully written book."
555.
A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
"A Hunger Artist", also translated as "A Fasting Artist" and "A Starvation Artist", is a short story by Franz Kafka published in 1922. The protagonist is an archetype of Kafka, an individual marginalized by society.
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La belle de Joza : roman by Květa Legátová FR
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Pour échapper à la Gestapo, Eliska, une jeune et brillante doctoresse tchécoslovaque, lie dans l'urgence son destin à un homme fruste. force de la nature, vendu par ses parents à l'âge de quinze ans. Quittant ainsi une vie pleine de promesses, un amant bien en vue et une belle carriere, Eliska rejoint dans les montagnes un village aux usages d'un autre temps. Pourtant. et contre toute attente, ces deux êtres vont se découvrir, tel la Belle et la Bête, et apprendre à s'aimer dans un paysage comme en suspens au-dessus de la catastrophe européenne.
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Scrisoare către tata by Franz Kafka RO
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
Una dintre cele mai importante scrieri autobiografice ale lui Franz Kafka este Scrisoare către tata, care se adaugă Jurnalului 1910–1923 şi volumelor de corespondenţă. Paginile adresate tatălui, Hermann Kafka, sunt scrise în 1919, după ultima încercare eşuată a lui Franz de a se căsători. „Eternul fiu“, cum l-a numit unul dintre comentatori pe Franz Kafka, se războieşte o viaţă întreagă cu tatăl său. Cu toate acestea, cititorul are senzaţia că fiul luptă fără să vrea împotriva lui însuşi, doar ca să nu-l vadă pe tată, pe tatăl mitic, pierzâ... continue
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Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke EN
Country: Europe / Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Description:
This compilation includes the poems of Bohemian-Austrian novelist and poet, Rainer Maria Rilke. Included in this collection is: "First Poems", "The Book of Pictures", "New Poems", and "The Book of Hours: The Book of a Monk's Life",.
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Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen EN
DenmarkDescription:
These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last t... continue