The Best German Short Stories

A golden collection of gems from classic German literature, ranging from early Sturm und Drang, through Gothic horror, to some of the finest stories from later German Romanticism.

• The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller

• The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie by Clemens Brentano

• The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau by Ludwig Achim von Arnim

• The Jew’s Beech Tree by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

• The Severed Hand by Wilhelm Hauff

• The Mines of Falun by E. T. A. Hoffmann

• Story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The Scholar by Ludwig Tieck

• Immensee by Theodor Storm