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Great German short stories

Stephen Spender

First publication (source) : 1960

284 p. 17 cm.
Contents: Lenz / Georg Buchner --
Brigitta / Adalbert Stifter --
Earthquake in Chile / Heinrich von Kleist --
Little legend of the dance / Gottfried Keller --
Tale of the Cavalry / Hugo von Hofmannsthal --
Autopsy / George Heym --
Gym period / Rainer Maria Rilke --
"Gladius Dei" / Thomas Mann --
In the penal colony / Franz Kafka --
Village tale / Robert Walser --
Conquest / Gottfried Benn --
Living authors / Stephen Spender --
Bound man / Ilse Aichinger --
Man with the knives / Heinrich Boll --
New apartment / Heinz Huber --
Meeting in the hallway / Hans Erich Nossack --
Game of murder / Gerd Gaiser --
World ends / Wolfgang Hildesheimer --
Series Title: Laurel editions, LC148
Responsibility: Edited and introduced by Stephen Spender.
Abstract:
Seventeen representative stories by 19th- and 20th- century authors, with an introduction by the editor.

[New York, Dell Pub. Co., 1960]