English translation copyright © 2010 Peter Wortsman
First Archipelago Books edition, 2010

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777–1811.

[Selections. English. 2010]

Selected prose of Heinrich von Kleist / by Heinrich von Kleist ;
selected, translated, and with an afterword by Peter Wortsman.
p. cm.
1. Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777–1811 – Translations into English.
I. Wortsman, Peter. II. Title.
PT2378.A2E5 2010           838’.609 – dc22
2009012080

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Cover Art: Paul Klee, Landschaft im Paukenton (Landscape
at the Sound of a Kettle-Drum), 1920.

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on the Arts, a state agency.