Hugo Walter Knihy

The collection features insightful essays exploring heroic efforts to rescue endangered heirs and estates, focusing on the pursuit of truth in criminal and civil contexts. Key literary figures such as Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Mary Lennox, and Hercule Poirot embody this quest, as they confront threats from family and close associates. The works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Theodor Storm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Agatha Christie are highlighted, showcasing the emotional and physical dangers faced by landowners and the valiant investigations undertaken to protect them.

Exploring the works of renowned authors, this collection of essays delves into the lives and methods of four exceptional literary detectives. Through the lens of masterpieces by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, and Dorothy Bowers, the essays highlight the unique traits and investigative techniques that define these iconic characters, offering insights into their enduring appeal in the mystery genre.

The collection features essays that highlight the remarkable contributions of private citizens with exceptional investigative skills in notable criminal cases. These individuals are portrayed as heroic and perceptive, drawing connections to literary works by Agatha Christie and Dorothy Bowers. Through these essays, the book emphasizes the significant role that ordinary people can play in the pursuit of justice, showcasing their intelligence and resourcefulness in solving complex mysteries.

The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving's The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in nineteenth-century American and European literature.

Magnificent Houses in Twentieth Century European Literature is a collection of great and imaginative essays that explore the theme of magnificent and aesthetically interesting houses in twentieth century European literature. It focuses especially on important works by Thomas Mann, Evelyn Waugh, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Siegfried Lenz, while also discussing other significant houses in modern European literature.

This book is a collection of wonderful and thoughtful essays that explore the theme of beautiful sanctuaries in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature. The book focuses especially on selected works by Percy Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Henrik Ibsen, and James Hilton. These sanctuaries of light, natural beauty, and tranquility comfort, nurture, and soothe the heart, mind, and soul of the individual, and inspire creative expression.

This collection of insightful and provocative essays explores the theme of sanctuaries of light in nineteenth-century European literature, especially in selected works by William Wordsworth, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Charlotte Brontë. These sanctuaries of light, natural beauty, and serenity comfort, nurture, and revitalize the heart, mind, and soul of the individual and inspire creative expression.This book will be of interest to professors, teachers, and scholars in the fields of English literature, German literature, European literature, comparative literature, and cultural studies.

Space and Time on the Magic Mountain explores the theme of the magic mountain in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, especially in selected works of William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, James Hilton, and Thomas Mann. The magic mountain, an aesthetically, intellectually, and spiritually unique environment, represents a threshold realm at the interface of life and death, time and eternity, where the protagonist experiences an epiphanic moment culminating in a profound and vital awareness of space and time.

This series of provocative essays examines the learning process of the «Ich» in 19th and 20th century German lyric poetry. The apostrophic moment, which develops from a textual instant of emotional, intellectual, or psychological reciprocity between the «Ich» and a «Du», initiates a meaningful and vital learning process in the poem. Poets discussed include Clemens Brentano, Joseph von Eichendorff, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Stefan George, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rudolf Borchardt, and Gottfried Benn.