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Various: Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann (Penguin Classics) [2012] paperback Condition:New is a psychological profile that'It was a very momentous day, the day on which I was to be slaughtered' Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years. Ranging from the Romantics of the early nineteenth century to works of contemporary fiction, it includes Hoffmann's hallucinatory portrait of terror and insanity 'The Sandman'; Chamisso's influential black masterpiece