Articles on books of the MoneyMuseum.

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.

What's it like waking up and being stuck in a donkey skin? The Roman author Apuleius shows his readers their everyday life from the perspective of a donkey. The Golden Donkey is a funny satire and a realistic picture of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Andersch's probably most important novel takes us back to the time of National Socialism. Five completely different people give themselves up in search of freedom, but recognize more and more clearly the limitations of their possibilities and the constraints of their existence. The plot inevitably leads us to ask how we would have acted in those times.