"The devil sometimes comes in the form of a dog." "I don't know what you so love in us Scandinavians, since you have your Hermann Stehr anyway." Knut ...

Thus sometimes a man stands and waits for a specific hour when fortune shall come, and at the same time, fortune already stands behind him, and she is ...

WARNING: This novel was BANNED by the Nazi authorities in German for its immoral content, and with good reason.

Five tales of love, kindness, self-interest, despair, and betrayal. - "Only no apple that is ripe remains hanging on the tree, and if nobody shakes it ...

"We all do not know how often we have been driven into that strange state, and perhaps it is really an everlasting trick of scared, weak souls to escape ...

"And between the night's rise and fall, the hourly chimes of human existence swing in a quite narrow space. Their tone is eternal desire in miserable struggle ...

The young Baron Holstein, son of a dissolute bankrupt, strives to restore his family's honour. But will he be able to avoid the distractions of his enemy's ...

As a reward for helping his bankrupt drunkard brother, Josef Schramm is beaten up and left for dead. He survives this misfortune and struggles back to ...

The tailor Christoph Eusebius Mandel spins tales to occupy his son, Amadeus, but the songs which Amadeus weaves over his father and step-mother have an ...

A young woman from a noble family fallen on hard times, Leonore Griebel marries an older businessman. Brought up on the romantic stories of her ancestors ...