German Stories and Tales - Robert Pick

Title: German Stories and Tales
Editor: Robert Pick
Publisher: Washington Square Press / Pocket Books
Format: Vintage paperback
8th Printing, April 1972
Standard Book Number: 671-47844-3

Condition: Fair vintage condition. Noticeable age-related wear including creasing, staining, edge wear, rubbing, and marks to covers and spine. Interior remains complete and readable. A solid reading or reference copy.

A substantial anthology of classic German-language fiction, German Stories and Tales gathers eighteen important short stories and novellas from some of the most influential writers of German literature. Featured authors include Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Jakob Wassermann.

The collection includes landmark works such as The Metamorphosis and Death in Venice alongside lesser-known but highly regarded pieces from the German and Austrian literary tradition. Themes of alienation, psychology, modernity, desire, bureaucracy, memory, and existential dread run throughout the anthology.