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• "The Promenade (der Spaziergang)" (1917) by Robert Walser

  15 August by Ray

  Robert Walser (1878-1956) was a Swiss-German poet and author of novels, short stories and essays who is remembered particularly for his delicate and yet somehow powerful poems [1] and this quite wonderful monologue about his encounters and observations and thoughts during a pleasant stroll on a (...)

• "In the Snow" and other stories by Stefan Zweig

  16 June by Stefan Zweig

  Three dramatic short stories by the author of Letter From an Unknown Woman:
  1. In the Snow (1901) – Word comes to a Jewish community celebrating Hanukah in a small town in medieval Germany that a large group of religious fanatics are on their way with hate in their hearts and blood on their (...)

• "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1922) by Stefan Zweig

  19 May by Stefan Zweig

  The great Viennese-Austrian author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a prolific writer of short stories, novelettes, novellas, historical studies, essays, memoirs, and letters – as well as several plays, two books of poetry, an opera libretto and one full-length novel .
  In this 14,400-word (...)

• "The Bottle Imp" (1891) - a South Sea fable by Robert Louis Stevenson

  11 May by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), author of the immortal Treasure Island (1883) and other notable works such as Travels with a Donkey (1879), Kidnapped (1886) and The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), was born and educated in Scotland and remained deeply attached to his (...)

• A selection of Nelson Algren’s best short stories

  21 July 2018 by Nelson Algren

  Nelson Algren (1909-1981), author notably of the novels Never Come Morning (1942), The Man With the Golden Arm (1949) and A Walk On the Wild Side (1956), of the essay Chicago, City on the Make (1951) and of the short-story anthology The Neon Wilderness (1947), had a special talent (...)