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Don Carlos and Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Don Carlos and Mary Stuart, two of German literature's greatest historical dramas, deal with the timeless issues of power, freedom, and justice. Dating from 1787 and 1800 respectively, one play was written immediately before the French Revolution, the other in its aftermath. These new translations into ...Show more
Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller
Category: Art
When the mechanical artist places his hand on the formless block, to give it a form according to his intention, he has not any scruples in doing violence to it. For the nature on which he works does not deserve any respect in itself, and he does not value the whole for its parts, but the parts on accoun ...Show more
On The Aesthetic Education Of Man by Friedrich Schiller
Category: Classic Fiction
'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as 'the best thing that I have done in my life'. This impas ...Show more
Pearson Reader Level 1: William Tell by Friedrich Schiller (Poète)
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT)
William Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people don t like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Austrians? Or is he a man of peace?
The Ghost-Seer by Friedrich Schiller; Andrew Brown (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction
The brooding, introverted Count von O- arrives in Venice during the carnival in order to escape from his duties and live incognito. But after encountering a enigmatic Armenian stranger who makes an uncanny pronouncement, a bizarre chain of events unfolds, involving a Jesuit secret society, a ghostly sea ...Show more
The Ghost-Seer - (or the Apparitionist), and Sport of Destiny by Friedrich Schiller; Andrea Gouveia (Editor, Translator)
Category: Fiction
The Ghost-Seer or The Apparitionist (full title: Der Geisterseher - Aus den Papieren des Grafen von O**; literally, The Ghost-Seer - From the papers of the Count of O**) is an unfinished novel by Friedrich Schiller. It first appeared in several instalments from 1787 to 1789 in the journal Thalia, later ...Show more
The Robbers and Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller; F. Lamport
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) was one of the most influential of all playwrights, the author of deeply moving dramas that explored human fears, desires and ideals. Written at the age of twenty-one, The Robbers was his first play. A passionate consideration of liberty, fraternity and deep betrayal, it q ...Show more
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