Most Popular Books by Lion Feuchtwanger

Gustav Oppermann, who runs a chain of furniture stores, and the other members of his Jewish family face the terrifying rise of Nazism in Germany.

This notorious Nazi propaganda historical costume melodrama is based on the Nazi version of the novel of the same title by Lion Feuchtwanger, which is based on the real historical character of Josef Süss Oppenheimer who was a Jewish tax advisor to Karl Alexander during the early 1700''s and was publicly executed in Stuttgart for manipulation of state funds.

This is an intimate story of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the exalted, visionary, often ridiculous, little man whose heights of philosophical grandeur were equaled only by the degrading absurdity of his private life. It is also the story of his effortlessly adulterous wife; of the frivolous nobles in France who made it fashionable to read him; and of the heroes, villains and fools who built the French Revolution and its resulting in the days of the Terror largely on his words. This is the story of Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s life as he lived it and as he described it in his celebrated "Confessions." It tells of the good and evil that came to the world largely because a cuckolded husband, who happened to be a greatly misunderstood philosopher, was murdered by his wife''s paramour.

First part of a trilogy based on the life of the Jewish historian.

First English translation of a work by the German novelist analyzing and defining the historical novel.

Court life of Wurtemberg in the period 1730-40.

Unjust imprisonment of a man, in post-war Bavaria, and the many people affected by his sentence.

Historical romance based on the life of Margaretha, Countess of Tyrol in the 14th century.

Der Schlüsselroman über das Leben deutscher Emigranten. Schauplatz dieses Romans ist Paris, die Stadt, die für Tausende deutscher Flüchtlinge zum Exilort wurde. Im Frühjahr 1935 wird Friedrich Benjamin, ein bekannter Publizist und Redakteur einer deutschen Emigrantenzeitung, von den Nazis verschleppt. Sepp Trautwein, der von seinem Münchner Lehrstuhr vertriebene Musikprofessor und Komponist, gibt die Musik auf, um Benjamins Sache zu seiner eigenen zu machen. Er kämpft einen fast hoffnungslosen Kampf, der sich schließlich als Ansporn und Bestätigung in seiner Kunst niederschlägt. Er komponiert die Sinfonie "Der Wartesaal", eine Metapher für die Zeit des Exils. Feuchtwanger wählte einen authentischen Fall als Ausgangspunkt für eine differenzierte Darstellung der Situation deutscher Exilanten, ihrer Existenznöte, ihrer politischen Zerrissenheit und ihres "ohnmächtigen und ein bißchen lächerlichen" Kampfes gegen einen riesigen Staat und seinen übermächtigen Apparat.

The Paris of 1935, interlaced with German refugees and Nazi officials.