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• "Shock-Headed Peter (Der Struwwelpeter)" (1845) by Heinrich Hoffmann - an extraordinary set of illustrated lessons showing children how to behave - or else!

  20 April by Heinrich Hoffmann

  Dr. Heinrich Hoffman (1809-1894) drew this sketchbook with verse lessons for his three-year-old son as a Christmas present for him in 1844, after having been unable to find any books able to really interest someone of that age in the bookstores in his town of Frankfurt – they were all either too (...)

• "Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English

  15 April by Gottfried Keller

  This famous story by the Swiss writer Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) was first published in 1874 in the second volume of his collection of stories The People of Seldwyla about the mores and adventures of the people of the mythical but somehow very typical Swiss town of that name.
  It recounts – (...)

• Anton Chekhov’s funniest story: "From the Diary of a Violent-tempered Man" (1887)

  4 September 2015 by Anton Chekhov

  Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) wrote some 239 short stories during his all-too-short career. Although in the main they tend to centre on the dissatisfactions and less-than-joyous aspects of the lives of people from all walks of life, many of them do have a certain whimsical character bordering on (...)