ELLIS SHOOKMAN is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. His previous books include Eighteenth-Century German Prose (1992), The Faces of Physiognomy (1993), Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland (1997), and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics (2003).

• Foreword: Dennis F. MahoneyIntroduction: Ellis ShookmanSOPHIE VON LA ROCHEFrom The History of Miss von SternheimGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanGEORG FORSTERFrom A Voyage round the WorldGlossaryCHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELANDThe Case of teh Ass's ShadowFrom The History of the AbderitesGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanKARL PHILIPP MORITZFrom Anton ReiserGlossaryTranslated by P.E. Matheson, revised by Ellis ShookmanWILHELM HEINSEFrom ArdinghelloGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanULRICH BRAKERFrom The Life Story and Real Adventures of the Poor Man of ToggenburgGlossaryTranslated by Derek BowmanBibliography

ELLIS SHOOKMAN is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. His previous books include Eighteenth-Century German Prose (1992), The Faces of Physiognomy (1993), Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland (1997), and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics (2003).

• Foreword: Dennis F. MahoneyIntroduction: Ellis ShookmanSOPHIE VON LA ROCHEFrom The History of Miss von SternheimGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanGEORG FORSTERFrom A Voyage round the WorldGlossaryCHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELANDThe Case of teh Ass's ShadowFrom The History of the AbderitesGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanKARL PHILIPP MORITZFrom Anton ReiserGlossaryTranslated by P.E. Matheson, revised by Ellis ShookmanWILHELM HEINSEFrom ArdinghelloGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanULRICH BRAKERFrom The Life Story and Real Adventures of the Poor Man of ToggenburgGlossaryTranslated by Derek BowmanBibliography

ELLIS SHOOKMAN is Associate Professor of German at Dartmouth College. His previous books include Eighteenth-Century German Prose (1992), The Faces of Physiognomy (1993), Noble Lies, Slant Truths, Necessary Angels: Aspects of Fictionality in the Novels of Christoph Martin Wieland (1997), and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: A Novella and Its Critics (2003).

• Foreword: Dennis F. MahoneyIntroduction: Ellis ShookmanSOPHIE VON LA ROCHEFrom The History of Miss von SternheimGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanGEORG FORSTERFrom A Voyage round the WorldGlossaryCHRISTOPH MARTIN WIELANDThe Case of teh Ass's ShadowFrom The History of the AbderitesGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanKARL PHILIPP MORITZFrom Anton ReiserGlossaryTranslated by P.E. Matheson, revised by Ellis ShookmanWILHELM HEINSEFrom ArdinghelloGlossaryTranslated by Ellis ShookmanULRICH BRAKERFrom The Life Story and Real Adventures of the Poor Man of ToggenburgGlossaryTranslated by Derek BowmanBibliography