SHORT STORY CLASSICS
Reading edition
(FOREIGN)
VOLUME THREE GERMAN
EDITED BY William Patten WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK
Copyright 1907 By P. F. Collier & Son The use of the copyrighted translations in this collection has been authorized by the authors or their representatives. The translations made especially for this collection are covered by the general copyright
CONTENTS–VOLUME III
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THE BROKEN CUP
Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke 663
CASTLE NEIDECK
Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl 691
THE YOUNG GIRL OF TREPPI
Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse 739
THE STONEBREAKERS
Ferdinand von Saar 793
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch 839
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Rudolf Baumbach 849
GOOD BLOOD
Ernst von Wildenbruch 863
DELIVERANCE
Max Simon Nordau 903
A NEW-YEAR’S EVE CONFESSION
Hermann Sudermann 917
BRIC-A-BRAC AND DESTINIES
Gabriele Reuter 929
THE FUR COAT
Ludwig Fulda 939
THE DEAD ARE SILENT
Arthur Schnitzler 955
MARGRET’S PILGRIMAGE
Clara Viebig 981
THE BROKEN CUP
BY JOHANN HEINRICH DANIEL ZSCHOKKE
Unlike most of the early romantic writers of Germany, Zschokke is still read in his own country and abroad. He was born in Magdeburg in 1771 and died in 1848, honored throughout Germany as liberal and patriot during the Napoleonic wars.
After a sojourn in Switzerland as head of the Department of Education in the Canton of Grisons and later of the Department of Forests and Mines in the Canton of Aargau, he began to devote himself more exclusively to literature, producing with amazing versatility a great number of works on religion, history, politics, and the drama. But popularity came to him through his charming short stories, written in a rather loose and careless style, but full of vivacity, imagination, humor, and a broad knowledge of life and character. Many years of literary sifting have proved “The Adventures of a New-Year’s Eve” and “The Broken Cup” to be the most enduring and popular of his short stories.
