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Thus sometimes a man stands and waits for a specific hour when fortune shall come, and at the same time, fortune already stands behind him, and she is a white, rosy-cheeked, wondrous girl who waits with heart pounding for the man to embrace her; and the man does not do it and thinks fortune must first come to him; and then he suddenly hears such a gentle rustling, and when he looks around, then the rosy-cheeked girl of fortune is going from him in tears, and behind him stands Mrs Sorrow with her grey cloak and grins at him and says, "Blockhead, now you can wait a long time for the little...

The young doctor Paul Hein moves from the provinces to Berlin to make his career. There he encounters all the temptations of the big city. Will his decency and his love for his fiance survive amidst the charms of the metropolis?

And yet the wanderer sometimes pulled up, and looked with dull astonishment down the endless rows of houses. They were precisely the same buildings which he had admired on his arrival a year before, the same shops, the same streets, only he had changed, a being who only accidentally bore his name, transformed, converted, bewitched, ruined by the wand of this...

WARNING: This novel was BANNED by the Nazi authorities in German for its immoral content, and with good reason.

Four stories: a mother loses her hold over her son; a husband discovers how blind he really is; a young man returns to reconcile with his lover and her father; and a young man swears an oath which he cannot hold.

Below, the white foam roared against the rock, digging and burrowing, it flooded back again and then raced up anew. Entire flocks of white seagulls whirled over the white spray, a sharp crag raised its dripping head from the whirlpool, and floating wreaths of kelp and seaweed swirled about down there in narrow circles. Here it must happen

His bestsellers burnt and...

Imprisoned in a lunatic asylum, Professor Karl Barkentin writes the confession of how he came to murder his wife.

I watched Lilli wordlessly for quite some time, and then - then it climbed up in me for the first time; an uncanny delight beset me with the thought, "If this women were to lie dead before you, then you would be single and rid of all the worrying; death is the actual lover she needs, he will hold her fast and guard her.

Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866-1931) was a German author and dramatist whose works were banned and grave desecrated by the Nazis. A number of...

The young Baron Holstein, son of a dissolute bankrupt, strives to restore his family's honour. But will he be able to avoid the distractions of his enemy's daughter and his young stepmother?

The helmsman nodded with his head. "Well, it seems right to me," he murmured, "but the talk with us goes like this, anyone who once belongs to the sea, he must also return to it. The sea lets go of no one."

His bestsellers burnt and his grave desecrated by the Nazis, Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866-1931) has been unfairly neglected by subsequent generations. A number of his novels were...