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Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Peter Schlemihl" (A. v. Chamisso), "Die Nase" (N. Gogol), "Fräulein Fifi" (G. de Maupassant), "Das Gewinnlos" (A. Tschechow), "Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue" (E. A. Poe), "Josefine, die Sängerin" (F. Kafka), "Der Dicke und der Dünne" (A. Tschechow), "Der stumme Gärtner und die Nonnen" (G. Boccaccio), "Die beiden Greise" (L. Tolstoi), "Die Frau und die Landschaft" (S. Zweig).

Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Macabre, dreamlike and expressing deep unconscious fears, these stories are also spiked with unsettling humour, showing stylistic daring as well as giving insight into the darkest recesses of the human condition. Peter Wortsman's powerful translations are accompanied by brief overviews of the lives of each author, and an introduction discussing the notion of 'angst' and the stories' place in the context of German history.