Item category 2: Classic Fiction

Setting out to make his fortune, a young traveller discovers the remote & beautiful land of Erewhon, & is given a home among its handsome citizens. But their visitor soon discovers that this ideal community has its faults. This is a humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy & t...

Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate.

The stories collected in this volume reflect the preoccupations of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) with the deceptiveness of human nature and the unpredictability of the physical world.