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Tales from the underworld : selected shorter fiction / Hans Fallada ; edited and translated by Michael Hofmann ; foreword by Jenny Williams.

Title
Tales from the underworld : selected shorter fiction / Hans Fallada ; edited and translated by Michael Hofmann ; foreword by Jenny Williams.
Author
Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947
Publication
London : Penguin Books, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-
  • Williams, Jenny (College teacher)
Description
xii, 305 p.; 20 cm.
Series Statement
Penguin modern classics
Uniform Title
Penguin modern classics
Subject
  • Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947 > Translations into English
  • Short stories, German > Translations into English
Genre/Form
  • Short stories
  • Translations
  • Erzählende Literatur: Anthologien
Note
  • Translated from the German.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Wedding Ring -- Passion -- Tales from the Underworld -- Farmers in the Revenue Office -- Kubsch and His Allotment -- Mother Lives on Her Pension -- A Burglar's Dreams are of His Cell -- Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch? -- On the Lam -- I Get A Job -- A Bad Night -- The Open Door -- War Monument or Urinal? -- Happiness and Woe -- With Measuring Tape and Watering Can -- The Lucky Beggar -- Just Like Thirty Years Ago -- Fifty Marks and a Merry Christmas -- The Good Pasture on the Right -- The Missing Greenfinches -- Food and Grub -- The Good Meadow -- Calendar Stories -- The Returning Soldier -- The Old Flame -- Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism -- Three Years of Life -- Svenda, a Dream Fragment; or, My Worries -- Looking for My Father.
ISBN
  • 9780141392851 (pbk.)
  • 0141392851 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 864085495
  • SCSB-12472984
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library