by Gerald-Knittel | May 27, 2022 | books-for-both-old-and-young
Brethren of Purity The Case of the Animals against Man ‘The case of the animals against man’ is not just one of the many books on animal welfare. In the West animal welfare came to the fore only in the nineteenth century and since then interest in the subject...
by Gerald-Knittel | Mar 5, 2022 | books-for-both-old-and-young
George Eliot Middlemarch Middlemarch was written by a woman, who used a man’s name because she did not want her work to be judged according to the prejudices against women that were usual during her lifetime. The story is set in the nineteenth century, during...
by Gerald-Knittel | Jan 29, 2022 | books-for-both-old-and-young, Books for the young
Michael Morpurgo An Elephant in the Garden In the last months of the Second World War, Dresden was reduced to rubble by the Royal Air Force bomber units, with thousands left dead. Peter, a twenty-one-year-old Canadian radio operator, is the sole surviver after...
by Gerald-Knittel | Dec 19, 2021 | books-for-both-old-and-young, Books for the young
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol This book is very relevant even in our modern times, in which “Scroogian” behaviour appears to be more entrenched than ever in interhuman relation, and “being Scrooge-like” also seems to aptly describe the manner in which...
by Gerald-Knittel | Dec 18, 2021 | books-for-both-old-and-young
Leo Tolstoy Resurrection: The Awakening Original Russian Title: Воскресение The young nobleman Nekhlyudov serves as a juror during the trial of a young woman whom he recognizes as she appears in court: Katerina (Katyusha) Maslova, whom he had seduced ten years before...
by Gerald-Knittel | Nov 4, 2021 | books-for-both-old-and-young
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship Original German Language Title: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre As a boy he is noble-minded and enthusiastic and remains so as a young man: Wilhelm Meister, always seeking and striving to educate himself; always...
