SHORT STORY CLASSICS
(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
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CONTENTS–VOLUME III
| Page | |
| 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.
