Heinrich Von Kleist

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1978
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • Prince Friedrich of Homburg

    Prince Friedrich of Homburg is the indisputable dramatic masterpiece of Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), a leading figure, along with Goethe and Schiller, among early German Romantics.

    Available until now only in verse translation, it has been ...

  • The Marquise of O and Other Stories

    In The Marquise of O-, a virtuous widow finds herself unaccountably pregnant. And although the baffled Marquise has no idea when this happened, she must prove her innocence to her doubting family and discover whether the perpetrator is an assailant o...

  • Romantic Novellas

  • Three Stories: Die Verlobung in St. Domingo, Das Erdbeben in Chili, & Michael Kohlhaas

  • The Prince of Homburg

    Von Kleist’s last work and his masterpiece is an historical tragedy in which a prince’s love for a woman confounds his orders of battle....

  • Six German Romantic Tales: By Kleist, Tieck, & Hoffmann

    Provides a kind of handbook to this [German Romantic] movement...All the varieties are here: magical, musical, political and aesthetic...[An] excellent translation." - TLS. "These tales are hard to find in translation and this is a thoughtful groupin...

  • German Romantic Novellas: Heinrich Von Kleist and Jean Paul

    Includes The Earthquake in Chile, Michael Kohlhaas, The Marquis of O--, and Betrothal in Santo Domingo by Kleist; and Army-Chaplain Schmelzles' Journey to Flatz and The Life of Mara Wuz, the Merry Hearted Dominie of Authenal by Jean Paul....

  • Penthesilea

    An army of Amazons sets out to conquer Greek heroes for the purpose of stocking their women's state with new female offspring. They blast into the midst of the Trojan War, confusing Greeks and Trojans alike and for a moment forcing those enemies i...

  • The Marquis of O-

    An ingenious "whodunit" and one of the greatest works of German literature, "The Marquise of O-" subverts the 18th-century notion of the infallibility of man and reveals the true ambiguity and caprice of humanity. Held captive by a band of unspeakabl...



  • Selected Writings

    Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von Kleist's key writings in this collection, the most ambitious of its kind.

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  • Michael Kohlhaas

    “Michael Kohlhaas” is Heinrich von Kleist’s early 19th century novella based upon the real historical 16th century story of Hans Kohlhase. A German merchant from Colln, Kohlhase is attacked by the servants of a Saxon nobleman, Gunter von Zaschw...

  • Michael Kohlhaas: A Tale from an Old Chronicle

    "Michael Kohlhaas" is a novella written by famed writer Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811). The story is based upon the historical figure of Hans Kohlhase, a 16th century merchant who turned violent after being attacked and victimized by the authorities...

  • Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

    In this extraordinary and unpredictable cross-section of the work of one of the most influential free spirits of German letters, Peter Wortsman captures the breathlessness and power of Heinrich von Kleist’s transcendent prose. These tales, essays, ...

  • The Duel

    About This Book"No amount of wisdom could possibly make sense of the mysterious verdict which God intended through this duel."A new translation of a key work by one of European literature’s most important early writers. One of the few novellas writ...

  • Betrothal in Santo Domingo

    ""In Port-au-Prince, on the French side of the island of Santo Domingo, there lived, at the beginning of the century, when the blacks were killing the whites, a dreadful old Negro by the name of Congo Hoango."Genre: short story/novella"...

  • The Marquise of O-

    A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancyIn a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpected...

  • Contes

    Nous allons maintenant essayer de faire connaître les divers ouvrages de cet auteur, dont nous publions aujourd'hui les Contes, remarquables par le vif intérêt qu'ils inspirent et les nombreux détails qui en font tout le charme....

  • Michel Kohlhaas

    L'histoire se déroule au milieu du XVIe siècle, pendant la Réforme, et narre l'histoire du marchand de chevaux Michael Kohlhaas, qui s'insurge contre une injustice qui lui a été faite et veut se rendre justice selon sa devise...

  • The Marquise of O

    A respectable young widow and mother of two children, the Marquise of O- finds herself inexplicably pregnant after being rescued by a Russian officer from the attentions of his soldiers during the storming of her town's citadel. Convinced of her own ...



  • Michael Kohlhaas & Other Tales by Heinrich Von Kleist

    “The world might have blessed his memory had he not carried one virtue to too great an extreme. The feeling of justice made him a robber and a murderer.”— “Michael Kohlhaas” by Heinrich Von KleistBlackstone and Skyboat M...

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Heinrich Von Kleist has published 20 books.

Heinrich Von Kleist does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Michael Kohlhaas & Other Tales by Heinrich Von Kleist, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Heinrich Von Kleist, Prince Friedrich of Homburg, was published in June 1978.

No. Heinrich Von Kleist does not write books in series.
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