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Fontane's literary mastery is evident in his seminal novel Effi Briest. From today's perspective, the conventions and constraints described therein seem hardly comprehensible. You can find out here why it is still worth reading this book.

Sherlock Holmes is the father of all detectives. With him, Conan Doyle created the pattern every television inspector is still modelled on today. Join us to have a look at the beginning of the crime novel.

Dostoyevsky’s Idiot illustrates that the opposite of "good" is not "evil" but "well intentioned". "The idiot" wants to do good and fails terribly, and that’s relevant today: Finally, our world has become so complex that nobody can know for sure what’s good and what’s bad for it.

Dante's Divine Comedy is the most important work in Italian literary history and at least parts of it belong to the “Splatter and Blood” genre. Even then, people simply enjoyed reading about how the wicked are punished in the most horrific ways.

Cervantes' novel about the Knight of Sorrowful Countenance is world literature. His "tilting at windmills" is part of the English vocabulary. Even more than 400 years later, this book is still a pleasure to read.