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.

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.

At the start of the nineteenth century, German "Schauerliteratur" was so popular as to permanently associate that land with the Gothic and the ghostly. Translations of short pieces published in journals like The German Museum and Blackwood's Magazine started a vogue for this new kind of fiction amongst the English reading public. The present anthology, the first of its kind in a decade, collects together examples of these tales from many of the great masters of the genre, including Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué, Johann Karl August Musäus, Louisa Drachmann, and Heinrich Clauren. Featuring bandits, cursed knights, tragic spectres, witch cults, diabolical bargains and the thirsting dead, the pieces in this volume mark the point at which the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century met the psychological intensity of Romanticism in the birth of the modern horror story.

Bitter Healing is the first anthology of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German women's writing in English translation. It goes far toward filling a major gap in literary history by recovering for a wide audience the works of women whoøwere as famous during their lifetime as Wieland, Schiller, and Goethe. Like those men, they wrote in the early modern period spanning the transition from early Enlightenment to Romanticism. Edited by Jeannine Blackwell and Susanne Zantop, this collection assembles little-known writings by fifteen authors from various social classes, religious backgrounds, and political persuasions. They include the forgotten pietist theologian Johanna Eleonore Petersen, the radical social reformer Bettina von Arnim, the outspoken peasant's daughter Anna Luisa Karsch, the aristocrats Annette von Droste-H_lshoff and Karoline von G_nderrode, and the conservative monarchist Sophie von La Roche, among others. Their autobriographies and letters, "moral" and not so moral tales, lyrical and protest poems, plays, and fairy tales deal with religious crisis, family conflict, and harmony, mothers and daughters, wise women, romance and pain and the healing power of love, self-understanding, escape, and the magical and humorous. The variety and quality of the pieces testify to the creativity of women writers during this first peak of literary activity in Germany, the so-called Age of Goethe. The editors have provided a short biography and bibliography for each writer.