Copyright © 1986 by Suhrkamp Verlag

Translation copyright © 2015 by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel

Foreword copyright © 2015 by Reto Sorg

Compilation copyright © 2015 by New Directions Publishing

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First published as a New Directions Paperbook (ndp1313) in 2015

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Walser, Robert, 1878–1956, author.

[Plays. Selections. English]

Fairytales : dramolettes / Robert Walser with a foreword by Reto Sorg ; translated by Daniele Pantano and James Reidel.

ISBN 978-0-8112-2398-0

ISBN 978-0-8112-2490-1 (e-book)

I. Pantano, Daniele, translator. II. Reidel, James, translator. III. Title.

PT2647.A64A2 2015

832'.912—dc23 2014036422

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