Buddenbrooks is a insightfull study into the life of this german family.We follow the Buddenbrook s through three generations and watches closely how the families dominant male character, who runs the family business,changes .The great family firm comes to and end , when the person thats is going to take over is a sensitive artist,not a businessman.Mann manages to deskripe the life of the family and the suroundings historically detailed.It is also a study of a spesific time period in german history.Its a canon.

The brilliant writtings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, arguably the greatest writer in the German language, are the subject of intense and respectful study in Reading Goethe: A Critical Introduction To The Literary Work. Chapters thoroughly explore the creative and destructive energies in Goethe's poetry, narrative fiction, drama, discursive writings, and his perhaps best-known masterpiece, Faust. A superb collaboration by Martin Swales (Professor of German, University College) and Erika Swales (CollegeLecturer in German and Fellow at King's College, Cambridge) Reading Goethe is an invaluable companion reference that belongs on the true literati's bookshelf next to the works of Goethe himself.