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Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Art of the Novella S.
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognised by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In "The Art of the Novella" series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practit ...Show more
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Category: Classic Fiction
Michael Kohlhaas has been wronged. First his finest horses were unfairly confiscated and mistreated. And things keep going worse--his servants have been beaten, his wife killed, and the lawsuits he pursues are stymied--but Kohlhaas, determined to find justice at all costs, tirelessly persists. Standing ...Show more
Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann by Heinrich Von Kleist
Category: Classic Fiction
'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE WILL HAVE JUSTICE.Based on the real life of an ordinary horse-dealer cheated by a government official, Michael Kohlhaas is the darkly comical and magnificen ...Show more
The Marquise of O by Heinrich von Kleist; Richard Stokes (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Alma Classics 101 Pages Ser.
A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own innocence and wishing to vindicate her own integrity, ...Show more
The Marquise of O— by Heinrich von Kleist; Nicholas Jacobs (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancy In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's ci ...Show more
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