Edited and with an introduction by Stephen Spender.

Contents:

• Introduction by Stephen Spender
• Lenz by Georg Büchner
• Brigitta by Adalbert Stifter
• The Earthquake in Chile by Heinrich von Kleist
• A Little Legend of the Dance by Gottfried Keller
• A Tale of the Cavalry by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• The Autopsy by George Heym
• Gym Period by Rainer Maria Rilke
• "Gladius Dei" by Thomas Mann
• In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
• A Village Tale by Robert Walser
• The Conquest by Gottfried Benn
• The Bound Man by Ilse Aichinger
• The Man with the Knives by Heinrich Böll
• The New Apartment by Heinz Huber
• The Meeting in the Hallway by Hans Erich Nossack
• The Game of Murder by Gerd Gaiser
• A World Ends by Wolfgang Hildesheimer