Great German short stories

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]