111 Actionszenen der Weltliteratur

A Different History of Literature: Tolstoy, Proust, Shelley, and Co. in Action! Here, the authors of world literature reveal themselves in ways we have never seen before: in the midst of events, in close combat and chaos, as villains and heroes. We are there when Cervantes fought in the Battle of Lepanto. When Tolstoy was bitten by a bear. When Jules Verne rode a roller coaster and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry survived four crash landings. When the Brontë sisters witnessed the end of the world. When Marcel Proust dueled and the police searched for Agatha Christie. When Mary Shelley met her monster by Lake Geneva and Emily Dickinson experienced the storm of love. When Bob Dylan broke his neck at Woodstock and David Foster Wallace collapsed in the gym. The best stories from the popular series in the literary world, edited by Mara Delius and Marc Reichwein.