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• "The Stone Heart " by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1817)

  14 November by E. T. A. Hoffmann

  The Court Counsellor Reutlinger organizes an elaborate festival on his grounds every three years to which everyone in the area, young and old, is invited – on the condition that they put on the clothes and accoutrements of the year 1760, a particularly important moment in the Counsellor’s life, (...)

• "Gambler’s Luck" by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1820)

  7 November by E. T. A. Hoffmann

  A powerful moral fable about the addictive and devastating fascination for gambling that has wreaked so much havoc in so many lives throughout time, by one of the leading spirts of the German Romanic movement. (12,000 words) an e-book, with the original texts in an annex, is available for (...)

• "Mozart’s Journey From Vienna to Prague" by Eduard Mörike (1855)

  31 October by Eduard Mörike

  A particularly charming and renowned (in German-speaking countries) fictional account, by one of the major German poets of the 19th century, of the encounters and adventures and (brilliant) conversations of the great composer on the way from Vienna to Prague where his new opera Don Giovanni was (...)

• “Caliph Stork” and Other Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Hauff (1826)

  16 October by Wilhelm Hauff

  Wilhelm Hauff, a rising star of the rich "Biedermeier" period of German literature in the early 19th century, was able to publish outstanding collections of fairy tales that he called Almanacs in each of his last three years before his tragic death by typhoid fever in 1827 at the age of 24. (...)

• "The Engagement in St. Domingo" by Heinrich von Kleist (1811)

  3 October by Heinrich von Kleist

  In the midst of the campaign of racial extermination of the thousands of white-skinned people left on Haiti (then called St. Domingo) after the successful uprising of slaves there in 1804, a young officer desperately seeks shelter and food for his small company of civilians in a wayside house, (...)