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The historical novel is a genre which has enjoyed widespread popularity in Germany from its beginnings in the eighteenth century. At that time, increased literacy among the middle and lower classes had resulted in a greater demand for reading material aimed at a general audience. Because of its educational and entertaining characteristics, the historical novel quickly became a dominant genre among other forms of popular literature. To this day, it constitutes a major sector on the German book market and is, together with popular TV series, documentaries, and museum exhibits, an important part of German Geschichtskultur. This collection of essays looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, ...
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Ludwig Gschwind, der beliebte Erzähler, stellt die unterschiedlichsten Persönlichkeiten vor, die zu »Gottes Bodenpersonal« gehören. Darunter befinden sich einige bekannte Schriftsteller wie Phil Bosmans, Wilhelm Hünermann und Jón Svensson, der Autor der bekannten Kinderbücher »Nonni und Manni«. Ein eher ungewöhnliches Tätigkeitsfeld übernahm Heinrich Brauns, der als Priester in der Weimarer Republik acht Jahre lang das Reichsarbeitsministerium leitete. Nicht vergessen wurden auch die Priester, die in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ins KZ eingeliefert wurden und dort starben.
A Book of European Writers A-Z By Country Published on June 12, 2014 in USA.
"In these conversations with renowned religious journalist Peter Seewald, Pope Benedict speaks in his own words about the reasons for his resignation, the emphases of his pontificate, about his admiration for his successor Pope Francis and controversial topics during his papacy such as "Vatileaks", the child abuse sandals and reforming the Curia..."--Back cover.
Gheorghiu relata con trazos fuertes y vivos la historia de San Juan Crisóstomo, un hombre dotado de excelsas cualidades, que las puso al servicio de Dios.
John Maynard Keynes wrote to his grandchildren more than fifty years ago about their economic possibilities, and thus about our own: "I see us free, there fore, to return to some of the most sure and certain principles of religion and traditional virtue - that avarice is a vice, that the exaction of usury is a misde meanour. . . . We shall once more value ends above means and prefer the good to the useful" ("Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren," pp. 371-72). In the year 1930 Keynes regarded these prospects as realizable only after a time span ofone hundred years, ofwhich we have now achieved more than half. The pres ent book does not share Keynes's view that the possibility of an in...
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