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 Nemocontains the following stories:
— The Dead Lake
— Doomed
— Beatrice
— Beginning, and End
— L'Arrabiata!
— Count Ernest's Home
— Blind
