Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Christoph Martin Wieland, Love and Friendship Tested Heinrich von Kleist, Michael Kohlhaas Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Mademoiselle de Scudery Adelbert von Chamisso, The Strange Story of Peter Schlemihl Gottfried Keller, Clothes Make the Man Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, The Sufferings of a Boy Theodor Fontane, Stine Thomas Mann, The Buffoon Gerhart Hauptmann, The Heretic of Soana Arthur Schnitzler, Fraulein Else Franz Kafka, A Hunger Artist Werner Bergengruen, Ordeal by Fire