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It could be so simple: a man and a woman fall in love, get married and live happily together – not so with Charlotte Brontë. In Jane Eyre she showed how complicated it can be and thus created topoi that have become the standard in romance novels.

No book by Bradbury is as topical as his parable of the decline of written expression. If you don't want to hurt anyone, don't write anything. If you want to make everyone equal, those unwilling to learn are your benchmark, TV is your tool. The Fahrenheit 451 society sees no other solution than to burn all the books.

More than 70 years ago, Ray Bradbury wrote a masterpiece of science fiction and psychology: How do people behave in the face of the stranger? How do the seemingly defenseless strangers fight back? The colonization of Mars provides the backdrop for a study in human error.

This book was a scandal! Never before had an author written so explicitly about the dark side of the big cities. With his Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire paved the way for poetry describing today’s world.

A graceful lady of the castle, a heroic knight, dragons to conquer, vows of love – what reads like the conventional ingredients for a classic medieval novel can be traced back to this book, among others. Without a doubt, this work manifests one of the origins of German-language literature.