DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

GENERAL EDITOR: PAUL NEGRI

EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: EVAN BATES

Copyright

Copyright © 2003 by Dover Publications, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2003, is a new selection of eight short stories reprinted from standard sources. “The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie” by Clemens Brentano is reprinted from Fiction and Fantasy of German Romance by Frederick Pierce and Carl F. Schreiber, copyright © 1928 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc. A new introductory Note has been specially prepared for this edition.

Translations used are those of Stanley Appelbaum (Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony,” Rilke’s “How Old Timofei Died with a Song,” Kleist’s “The Earthquake in Chile,” Schnitzler’s “Lieutenant Gustl”); Kenneth Burke (Mann’s “Death in Venice”); Adele S. Seltzer (Hauptmann’s “Flagman Thiel”); Carl F. Schreiber (Brentano’s “The Story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie”); and Thomas Carlyle (Hoffmann’s “The Golden Pot”).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Great German short stories / edited by Evan Bates.

    p. cm. — (Dover thrift editions)

Contents: Death in Venice / Thomas Mann—Flagman Thiel / Gerhart

Hauptmann—In the penal colony / Franz Kafka—The golden pot / E.T.A. Hoffmann—How Old Timofei died with a song / Rainer Maria Rilke—The earthquake in Chile / Heinrich von Kleist—Lieutenant Gustl / Arthur Schnitzler—The story of the Just Casper and Fair Annie / Clemens Brentano.

ISBN 0-486-43205-X (pbk.)

  1. German fiction—Translations into English. 2. Short stories, German— Translations into English. I. Bates, Evan. II. Series.

PT1327.G74 2003

833'.0108—dc21

2003055218

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