The Stories of Heinrich von Kleist

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Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) only wrote eight stories, but they are among the glories of German, and world, literature.

The best known to American readers is almost certainly the novella-length "Michael Kohlhaas," in large part because E. L. Doctorow borrowed from it for the Coalhouse Walker portions of his novel Ragtime. As usual, Kleist hooks the reader with his very first sentence:
Toward the middle of the sixteenth century, there lived on the banks of the Havel a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas, the son of a schoolmaster, one of the most upright and at the same time one of the most terrible men of his day.

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