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Great German short stories / Edited and introduced by Stephen Spender.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PT1327 .S6
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Genre:
  • Fiction.
  • Short stories.
Penn Provenance:
  • Azzolina, David S. 1957- (donor)
Physical Description:
284 pages ; 17 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York : Dell Publishing Co., 1960.
Summary:
Seventeen representative stories by 19th- and 20th- century authors, with an introduction by the editor.
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.
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by David Azzolina.
Cited in:
Kulkarni. Stephen Spender, B32
Other Format:
Online version: Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995. Great German short stories.
OCLC:
297484

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