The Marquise of O- and Other Stories by Heinrich von Kleist

The Marquise of O- and Other Stories

Heinrich von Kleist with Martin Greenberg (Translator), Thomas Mann (Contributor)

288 pages first pub 1808 (editions) user-added

fiction classics short stories dark reflective slow-paced
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The nightmare shock-tactics and controlled hysteria that Kleist perfected led the classicist Goethe to describe his stories as "tainted with an incurable disease." Yet 150 years later, his characters-men who commit crimes in the name of justice, w...

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