This new collection, intended for the student and the interested general reader of German alike, includes both traditional examples, and those which fall outside the usual canon. The sixteen novellas in the volume have been carefully chosen on the bases of length, historical significance, popularity, and interest, and have been extensively glossed by the editor, who also provides an introduction to the history and theory of the genre. SIEGFRIED WEING is Professor of Modern Languages at the Virginia Military Institute. Contents: GEORG PHILLIP HARSDöRFFER - Die angenehme Straf JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE - Die schöne Krämerin LUDWIG TIECK - Der blonde Eckbert HEINRICH VON KLEIST - Das Erdbeben in Chili JOHANN PETER HEBEL - Unverhofftes Widersehen CLEMENS BRENTANO - Die Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl ACHIM VON ARNIM - Der tolle Invalide auf dem Forte Ratonneau ANNETTE VON DROSTE-HüLSHOF - Die Judenbuche ADALBERT STIFTER - Bergkristall PAUL HEYSE - L'Arrabiata MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH - Krambambuli GERHART HAUPTMANN - Bahnwärter Thiel HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL - Das Erlebnis des Marschalls von Bassompierre GUSTAV MEYRINK - Der violette Tod GEORG HEYM - Das Schiff FRANZ KAFKA - Das Urteil

“A valuable aid for students who want to improve their ability to read German as well as for those who would like an overview of short German fiction since the eighteenth century.” William E. Petig, Stanford University

Includes parts of six translated detective novels and novellas originally published between 1828 and 1909. Each story is preceded by a biographical sketch of the author, and a general introduction which covers the literary development of the genre and examines the critical history and the sociohistorical value of the German-language stories.

This is an anthology of 31 German stories written by females during the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries.

In this quiet and devastating novel about the rise of fascism, Siggi Jepsen, incarcerated as a juvenile delinquent, is assigned to write a routine German lesson on the “The Joys of Duty.” Overfamiliar with these joys, Siggi sets down his life since 1943, a decade earlier, when as a boy he watched his father, a constable, doggedly carry out orders from Berlin to stop a well-known Expressionist artist from painting and to seize all his “degenerate” work. Soon Siggi is stealing the paintings to keep them safe from his father. “I was trying to find out,” Lenz says, “where the joys of duty could lead a people.” Translated from the German by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

Collects more than one hundred short stories, each with no more than twenty-five words.

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The novella, one of the most sophisticated genres of narrative literature, owes its development primarily to German belles letters. In the present collection, Mr. Steinhauer has assembled a representative sampling that ranges from the Enlightenment to the postwar periods and reveals the scope and flexibility of this art form. Included are Wieland's "Love and Friendship Tested," Kleist's "Michael Kohlhaas," Chamisso's Peter "Schlemihl," Hoffmann's "Mademoiselle de Scudery," Keller's "Clothes Make the Man," Meyer's "Sufferings of a Boy," Mann's "The Bajazzo," Fontane's "Stine," Hauptmann's "Heretic of Soana," Kafka's "Hunger Artist," Schnitzler's "Fraulein Else," and Bergengruen's "Ordeal by Fire."

The novella, one of the most sophisticated genres of narrative literature, owes its development primarily to German belles lettres. In the present collection, Mr. Steinhauer has assembled a representative sampling that ranges from the Enlightenment to the postwar periods and reveals the scope and flexibility of this art form. Included are Wieland's Love and Friendship Tested, Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas, Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl, Hoffmann's Mademoiselle de Scudery, Keller's Clothes Make the Man, Meyer's Sufferings of a Boy, Mann's The Bajazzo, Fontane's Stine, Hauptmann's Heretic of Soana, Kafka's Hunger Artist, Schnitzler's Fraulein Else, and Bergengruen's Ordeal by Fire.

A collection of original World War II stories includes contributions by such authors as Ralph Peters, David Hagberg, and Harold Robbins.