Great German Short Stories

by Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka

Book Overview

The unique boundaries of the short story have attracted a majority of the prominent writers in the German language since the genre attained its modern form and became widely read around the turn of the 19th century.
This collection, featuring stories by eight of the form's most successful practitioners, includes Arthur Schnitzler's Lieutenant Gustl, considered to be the first purely interior monologue in European literature; Heinrich von Kleist's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048643205X
• ISBN13: 9780486432052
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Interesting selection of German short stories at a great price

As someone who likes reading short stories and also works of world literature, I have been collecting and reading short stories from various countries and was pleased to come across the immensely affordable Dover Thrift Editions. The book itself may not be of superior quality, but neither is it of inferior quality. The covers are beautiful and the paper quality is not altogether fine [rather flimsy in fact], but once again, it's value for money. The stories featured in this collection are: "Death in Venice" - Thomas Mann [translated by Kenneth Burke] "Flagman Thiel" - Gerhart Hauptmann [translated by Adele S Seltzer] "In the Penal Colony" - Franz Kafka [translated by Stanley Appelbaum] "The Golden Pot" - E.T.A. Hoffmann [translated by Thomas Carlyle] "How Old Timofei Died With a Song" - Rainer Maria Rilke [translated by Stanley Appelbaum] "The Earthquake in Chile" - Heinrich Von Kleist [translated by Stanley Appelbaum] "Lieutenant Gustl" - Arthur Schnitzler [translated by Stanley Appelbaum] "The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie" - Clemens Brentano [translated by Carl F Schreiber] I'd highly recommend this collection to fans of the genre and those who like world literature.