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('Matches, buy my matches, ladies and gents!' calls Luise ...)
'Matches, buy my matches, ladies and gents!' calls Luise Pogge, a.k.a. 'Dot', evening after evening, standing on Weidendammer Bridge in the middle of Berlin. Of course, her wealthy parents have no idea of her whereabouts, believing her to be in the safe care of her nanny, Miss Andacht. But Miss Andacht is being blackmailed by her shady fiancé, which is where Dot comes in. Anton, on the other hand, has to beg because he and his mother are paupers, and desperate. When the two children make friends on the streets of Berlin, Dot, who is no fool, has a brilliant idea which is sure to solve both their problems, and in the process they even solve a dastardly crime...
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( In the book that spawned the beloved movie The Parent T...)
In the book that spawned the beloved movie The Parent Trap, nine-year-old Lisa from Viennabold, with a head of curlsmeets Munich's buttoned-up Lottie at summer camp. Soon, a newspaper clipping tells the tale: they're identical twins, Lisa living a colorful, big-city life with her father while Lottie keeps house with their gentle mother. Why have their parents separated? And how can they get to the bottom of the mystery? They decide to switch hairstyles, manners, and addressesand that is where the adventure begins. Erich Kästner (18991974), a German author, was well known for his poetry and prose. He received wide acclaim for his much-loved books for children, Emil and the Detectives and Lisa and Lottie.
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( Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowba...)
Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowball fights, kidnappings, cakes, a parachute jump, a mysterious man called 'No-Smoking' who lives in a railway carriage and a play about a flying classroom. As the Christmas holidays draw near, Martin and his friends - nervous Uli, cynical Sebastian, Johnny, who was rescued by a sea captain, and Matthias, who is always hungry (particularly after a meal) - are preparing for the end of term festivities. But there are surprises, sadness and trouble on the way - and a secret that changes everything. The Flying Classroom is a magical, thrilling and bittersweet story about friendship, fun and being brave when you are at your most scared. (It also features a calf called Eduard, but you will have to read it to find out why).
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(206pages. poche. broché.)
206pages. poche. broché.
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Kästner was born on February 23, 1899 in Dresden, Germany. His father, Emil Richard Kästner, was a master saddlemaker. His mother, Ida Amalia (née Augustin), had been a maidservant, but in her thirties she trained as a hairstylist in order to supplement her husband's income. Kästner had a particularly close relationship with his mother.
In 1913, Kästner entered a teacher training school in Dresden. However, he dropped out in 1916 shortly before completing the exams that would have qualified him to teach in state schools. He was drafted into the Army in 1917 and was stationed with a heavy artillery company. Following a year's service in World War I, he completed his studies leading to the Ph. D. degree in 1925.
While still a student Kästner began his career as a journalist, and until the advent of the Hitler regime he was a constant contributor, in prose and poetry, to many newspapers and magazines. The poems of this period, the most strikingly original that he produced, were collected in Herz auf Taille (1927), Lärm im Spiegel (1928), Ein Mann gibt Auskunft (1930), and Gesang zwischen den Stühlen (1932). His novel Fabian (1931) gives unforgettable, if lurid, expression to the predicament of the "lost generation" in Germany. Completely different in tone, yet also masterpieces of their kind, are his light novels. Of these the first, Emil und die Detektive (1928; Emil and the Detectives, 1930) remains perennially popular. This work and Drei Männer im Schnee (1934) were both made into successful motion pictures in the 1930's. Aside from his immensely popular books for children, Kästner's rapid rise to fame and wide popularity rested chiefly on his early satirical verse; it constituted a vitriolically witty, memorable, and quotable commentary on the situation in German society that culminated in the Hitler dictatorship. Styling himself a pedagogue and moralist, Kästner interpreted the trend to totalitarianism as essentially the expression of moral bankruptcy. Many of his poems seek to illuminate the drift to moral relativism, passivity, and indifferentism as exemplified on the individual plane, and endeavor by witty and humorous formulation to bring about self-knowledge and catharsis in the reader. Other poems, more directly and specifically political, often satirize nationalism and militarism. Following the burning of his books in 1933, Kästner remained in Germany in obscurity, but was permitted until 1942 to publish abroad. During this time his book of poetry, Dr. Erich Kästners lyrische Hausapotheke (1936), appeared. After the war he resumed his career as a journalist and writer: Bei Durchsicht meiner Bücher (1946), a selection of prewar poems; Der tägliche Kram (1948), chansons and prose; Kurz und bündig (1948, 1950), epigrams; and Die dreizehn Monate (1955), lyric poems. Die Schule der Diktatoren (1956), his most notable dramatic work of this period, depicts as grimly grotesque reality that fall of man which he had earlier foretold. Als ich ein kleiner Junge War (1957; When I Was a Little Boy, 1959) is a brief autobiographical work about his childhood. His poems, of greater lyrical charm than most of those that proceeded from the post-Expressionistic school of Neue Sachlichkeit, couple epigrammatic conciseness and impact with great sensitivity. While unique in style, they rest recognizably on the tradition of critical verse exemplified by the lyric poet Heinrich Heine, and particularly on the tradition of the chanson. His Gesammelte Schriften ("Collected Works"), in seven volumes, appeared in 1959. Later books included the book of verse Von Damen und anderen Weibern (1963); and the children's book Der Kleine Mann (1963; The Little Man, 1966). Kästner died in Munich, Germany, on July 29, 1974.
( In the book that spawned the beloved movie The Parent T...)
('Matches, buy my matches, ladies and gents!' calls Luise ...)
( Martin's school is no ordinary school. There are snowba...)
(206pages. poche. broché.)
President of the PEN Center of West Germany (1951-1961), President Emeritus (1965), founding member of International Board on Books for Young People (1953)
Styling himself a pedagogue and moralist, Kästner interpreted the trend to totalitarianism as essentially the expression of moral bankruptcy.
Kästner never married. He wrote his last two children's books, Der kleine Mann and Der kleine Mann und die kleine Miss, for his son Thomas Kästner, who was born in 1957.
