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• A Selection of Nelson Algren’s Best Short Stories

  21 July 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 (...)

• Three Grimm Brothers "Witch Tales" (1812-1815)

  19 May by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

  The brothers Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), co-authors of an extremely monumental modern German-language dictionary, are first and foremost renowned in the academic circles of their homeland as two of the main founders of German philology.
  But of course among us lesser (...)

• "In the Penal Colony" (1919) by Franz Kafka

  15 May by Franz Kafka

  A visiting European researcher is invited by the military commander of a penal colony to witness the execution of a soldier condemned for insubordination that is to be carried out in a very special manner by a very special machine that has performed the same task very many times in the past. (...)

• "The Golden Cup" (1812) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism

  30 April by Ludwig Tieck

  Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) was one of the leading figures in the German romantic movement at the beginning of the 19th century, a movement that brought themes of the mysterious, the magical, the fantastic and the unexplainable into German-language letters at the time.
  It was in a way a precursor (...)

• "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann - an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave - or else!

  20 April by Heinrich Hoffmann

  Dr. Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894) drew this sketchbook with verse lessons for his three-year-old son as a Christmas present for him in 1844, after having been unable to find any books able to really interest someone of that age in the bookstores in his town of Frankfurt – they were all either too (...)