A visiting European researcher is invited by the military commander of a penal colony to witness the execution of a soldier condemned for insubordination, an execution that is to be carried out in a very special manner by a very special machine that has performed the same task very many times in the past. But times are changing and the extraordinary former commander of the camp who invented this amazing machine is no longer there and the values epitomised by the machine and the zealous (…)
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"In the Penal Colony" by Franz Kafka (1919)
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"The Mysterious Cup" (Der Pokal) by Ludwig Tieck - a classic of German romanticism (1812)
30 April 2018, by Ludwig TieckLudwig Tieck was one of the leading figures in the German romantic movement at the beginning of the 19th century, a movement that brought themes of the mysterious, the magical, the fantastic and the unexplainable into German-language letters at the time.
It was in a way a precursor of the fantasy and science-fiction themes in the literature of our own times!
Here we have a tender love story featuring notably a magnificent young woman, her ardent but too-poor lover and an alchemist who (…) -
"Clothes Make People (Kleider machen Leute)" by Gottfried Keller (1874) - one of the most famous German-language stories now available in English
15 April 2018, by Gottfried KellerThis 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 – brilliantly – in a very humorous vein the adventures of a penniless, unemployed tailor whose only possession in the world is a set of rather nice clothes that he has fabricated for himself, thanks to (…) -
INDEX OF THE 944 STORIES ON THIS SITE, by author
1 January 2018, by RayAUTHOR_________________________ TITLE_________________________________________________ ORIGINAL
LANGUAGE 1 Nelson Algren Kingdom City to Cairo English 2 Nelson Algren The Brothers’ House English 3 Nelson Algren Pero Vinceremos English 4 Honoré de Balzac Colonel Chabert French 5 Honoré de Balzac The Unknown Masterpiece French 6 J. M. Barrie The Inconsiderate Waiter English 7 Clemens Brentano The Story of the Good Kasperl and the Pretty Annerl German 8 Lewis Carroll Alice’s (…)