Tales from the underworld : selected shorter fiction /: selected shorter fiction. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Short stories.
• Further Information: Note: Hans Fallada ; edited and translated by Michael Hofmann ; foreword by Jenny Williams.
• Authors: Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947
• Editors: Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25
• Other Names: Hofmann, Michael 1957 August 25 translator.; Williams, Jenny author of introduction, etc.
• Contents: The wedding ring -- Passion -- Tales from the underworld -- Farmers in the revenue office -- Kubsch and his allotment -- Mother lives on her pension -- A burglar's dreams are of his cell -- Why do you wear a cheap watch? -- On the lam -- I get a job -- A bad night -- The open door -- War monument or urinal? -- Happiness and woe -- With measuring tape and watering can -- The lucky beggar -- Just like thirty years ago -- Fifty marks and a merry Christmas -- The good pasture on the right -- The missing greenfinches -- Food and grub -- The good meadow -- Calendar stories -- The returning soldier -- The old flame -- Short treatise on the joys of morphinism -- Three years of life -- Svenda, a dream fragment; or, My worries -- Looking for my father.
• Publisher Details: London : Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 304 pages, 1 unnumbered page)
• Subjects: 833.912; FICTION / Short Stories (single author); Short stories, German -- Translations into English; Short stories, German; Short Stories; Electronic books; Short stories; Translations; Erzählende Literatur: Anthologien; Short stories; Translations into English
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780141392868
• Related ISBNs: 014139286X; 9780141392851; 0141392851
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305).; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.