All Georg Brandes Audiobooks

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Born in Copenhagen in 1842, Georg Brandes became a major Danish literary critic, essayist, and public intellectual. He studied at the University of Copenhagen and built his reputation through sharp, wide-ranging criticism that connected literature with politics, religion, culture, and modern life.

Brandes is best known for championing what came to be called the “Modern Breakthrough,” encouraging writers to move away from old conventions and engage directly with real social problems. His lectures on nineteenth-century literature and his writing on major European figures helped shape the careers and reception of authors including Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg.

Over a long career, he wrote criticism, biographies, and essays that reached readers far beyond Denmark. He died in 1927, but he remains an important figure for anyone interested in how literature can challenge ideas and change public debate.

Georg Brandes

13 Audiobooks

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England

William Shakespeare: A Critical Study

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany

Recollections of My Childhood and Youth

Friedrich Nietzsche

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 5. The Romantic School in France

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 1. The Emigrant Literature

Anatole France

Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century: Literary Portraits

Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 3. The Reaction in France

Moderne Geister: Literarische Bildnisse aus dem neunzehnten Jahrhundert

Voltaire

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