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 Honor” 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