Tales of the German imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann / selected, translated and edited by Peter Wortsman.

-- The singing bone / The Brothers Grimm -- Hansel and Gretel / The Brothers Grimm -- The children of Hameln / The Brothers Grimm -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Rune mountain / Ludwig Tieck -- St. Cecilia or the power of music / Heinrich von Kleis t-- Peter Schlemiel / Adelbert von Chamisso -- The marble statue / Josef von Eichendorff -- Descent into the mines / Heinrich Heine -- My gmunden / Peter Altenberg -- The magic egg / Mynona (aka Salomo Friedlaender) -- A new kind of plaything / Mynona (aka Salomo Friedlaender) -- The seamstress / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The island of eternal life / Georg Kaiser -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- The kiss / Robert Walser -- The blackbird / Robert Musil -- The lunatic / Georg Heym -- A conversation concerning legs / Alfred Lichtenstein -- The onion / Kurt Schwitters -- A raw recrui r/ Klabund (aka Alfred Henschke) -- The time saver / Ignaz Wrobel (aka Kurt Tucholsky) -- The tattooed portrai r/ Egon Erwin Kisch. PART THREE. The experiment or the victory of the children / Unica Zürn -- The dandelion / Wolfgang Borcher t-- Shadowligh r/ Paul Celan -- The secrets of the princess of Kagran / Ingeborg Bachmann -- Conversation / Jürg Laederach.

Translated from the German.