Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann Book cover type:Paperback only to have your plans

only to have your plans for the day completely trashed by the appearance of a literal axe-wielding troll

From the beaches of Cornwall to the streets of Bloomsbury and from Hogarth House to the colleges of Cambridge

and matches the breadth and power of the original with a complex and stunning idiom of his own

Montgomery's beloved tale of friendship and family in a giftable new way

Tales of the German Imagination from the Brothers Grimm to Ingeborg Bachmann Book cover type:Paperback only to have your plansPublished: 06 12 2012 Genres: Short Stories Classics Fiction Fantasy German Literature Anthologies Germany '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