Four novellas/short stories translated from German into English for
the first time. "The Twilight" An old woman decides to end it all,
but not before telling a few home-truths to her husband. "The Last
Child" Dead souls become angels that do the work of taking souls to
and from the earth. But what happens when an angel is sent to
retrieve the soul of his infant brother? Will he be able to do it?
Will his mother stop him carrying off her last child like all the
others? "The Tale of the Rustling" A fable of how the sounds of
nature came into the world. "The Shadow" A man's matter-of-fact
reaction to his wife's death triggers a series of rumours amongst
his fellow villagers. Hermann Stehr (1864-1940) was a Silesian
author of over thirty novels and novellas. He was awarded the
Bauernfeld Prize (1910), the Fastenrath Prize (1919), the Schiller
Prize (1919), the Rathenau Prize (1930), the Wartburg Rose (1932),
the Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932) and the Goethe Prize of
Frankfurt-am-Main (1933), and appointed as a founding member of the
Prussian Literary Academy (1926).
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