Includes: Anecdotes from the Last Prussian War, The Beggarwoman of Locarono, and The Story of a Remarkable Single Combat by Heinrich von Kleist; An Unexpected Reunion and Kannitverstan by Johann Peter Hebel; Freidrich de la Motte Fouque's Undine; Adelbert von Chamisso's The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl; Clemens Brentano's The Story of Good Caspar and Fair Annie; and Joseph von Eichendorff's Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing.
Introduction: Gordon Birrell
HEINRICH VON KLEIST
Anecdote from the Last Prussian War
Translated by R.M. Browning
The Beggarwoman of Locarno
Translated by R.M. Browning
Story of a Remarkable Single Combat
Translated by R.M. Browning
JOHANN PETER HEBEL
An Unexpected Reunion
Translated by Harry Steinhauer
Kannitverstan
Translated by Paul Pratt
FRIEDRICH DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE
Undine
Translated by Paul Turner
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO
The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl
Translated by Harry Steinhauer
CLEMENS BRENTANO
The Story of Good Caspar and Fair Annie
Translated by Carl F. Schreiber (revised by R.M. Browning)
ACHIM VON ARNIM
The Madman of Fort Ratonneau
Translated by M.M. Yuill
JOSEPH FREIHERR VON EICHENDORFF
Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing
Translated by Ronald Taylor