Stories by Foreign Authors - German

This is a book devoted to German literature in the Stories by Foreign Authors series. The ten-volume series, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1898, provides an overview of European literature in the late 19th century. This volume consists of ten works of short fiction, translated into English, by ten German authors. While other books in the series favor naturalism and realism, this volume tends to lean more towards romanticism. This collection includes: Christian Gellert's Last Christmas, by Berthold Auerbach. A Ghetto Violet, by Leopold Kompert. The Severed Hand, by Wilhelm Hauff. Peter Schlemihl, by Adelbert Von Chamisso. The fury, Paul Heyse. The philosopher's pendulum, Rudolph Lindau. The bookbinder of Hort, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The Egyptian fire-eater, Rudolph Baumbach. The Cremona violin, E.T.A. Hoffmann. Adventures of a new year's eve, Heinrich Zschokke