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LC148 Great German Short Stories Edited and introduced by Stephen Spender Thomas Mann • Franz Kafka Rainer Maria Rilke Heinrich von Kleist Gottfried • • Gerd Gaiset Gottfried Kelle/V Hugo von Hof manrtsthal / Bonn 'Heinrich Boell sM • • seven others Georg BuechDer / / Digitized by tine in Internet Arciiive 2010 littp://www.arcliive.org/details/greatgermansliortOOspen "The struggle unhealthy between the healthy and the one which seems to take place is in the soul of nearly every if German writer, not of every German," writes Stephen Spender in his Introduction. "It is basic, and subjectivity, objectivity, romanticism, a very imposed even — classicism, consciousness of 'nature' are all secondary, being either symp- toms or cure of a shared German illness." STEPHEN SPENDER, one of England's most distinguished and well-known men of letters, is now editor of the magazine Encounter. He has published nine volumes of poetry as well as collected poems, 1928judge was writ- 1953. His play trial of a ten in 1938. Criticism includes FROM liberalism (1937) and forward and life THE poet (1942). A novel, engaged in writing (1958), is Spender's most recent publication. ^ 2 - J Laurel Great Short Stories Great American Short Stories Edited by Wallace and Mary Stegner Great English Short Stories Edited by Christopher Isherwood Great Russian Short Stories Edited by Morris Houghton Great Italian Short Stories Edited by P. M. Pasinetti Short Story Masterpieces Edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erksine Great German Short Stories Edited and introduced by Stephen Spender Published by DELL PUBLISHING CO., INC. 750 Third Avenue 17, N.Y. New York © Copyright, 1960, by Stephen Spender Laurel ® TM, Dell Pubhshing Co., Inc. All rights reserved Designed and produced by Western Printing & Lithographing Company First printing —May, 1960 Printed in U.S.A. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The following selections in this anthology are reproduced by permission of the authors, their agents or their publishers: "Lenz" by Georg Büchner translator, Goronwy is reprinted by permission of the Rees. "The Earthquake in Chile" by Heinrich von Kleist is reprinted by permission of Criterion Books, Inc., and of the translator, Michael Hamburger. "A Little Legend of the Dance" by Gottfried Keller, from THE PEOPLE OF SELDWYLA AND SEVEN LEGENDS. Published 1929 by E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. Reprinted by permission of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., and of J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd. "A Tale of Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, from Hugo von Hoffmannsthal. Bollingen the Cavalry" by SELECTED PROSE of Series XXXIII, Bollingen Foundation, Reprinted by permisand Routledge & Kegan Inc. sion of the Bollingen Foundation, Inc., Paul Ltd. "The Autopsy" by Georg Heym is reprinted by permission of the translator, Michael Hamburger. "Gym Period" by Rainer