Paul Heyse

Paul Heyse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 "as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of world-renowned short stories." Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that "Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe."

This selection chosen by the critic August Nemo contains the following stories:

• The Dead Lake
• Doomed
• Beatrice
• Beginning, and End
• L'Arrabiata!
• Count Ernest's Home
• Blind