presents
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
edited by Kuno Francke
This is a 20-volume collection of German literature in English translation
published in 1913 and 1914 by the German Publication Society in New York.
The Internet Archive has all 20 volumes of this set.
Below are links to all the volumes, along with a list of authors featured
in each volume.
(Some of the volumes and authors have biographical and critical prefaces
as well.)
- Volume I: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Volume II: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Volume III: Friedrich von Schiller
- Volume IV: Jean Paul; Wilhelm von Humboldt; August Wilhelm Schlegel; Friedrich Schlegel; Novalis (Friedrish von Hardenberg); Friedrich Hölderlin; Ludwig Tieck; Heinrich von Kleist
- Volume V: Friedrich Schleiermacher; Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Friedrich Wilhem Joseph von Schelling; Ludgwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano; Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm; Ernst Moritz Arndt; Theodor Kürner; Maximilian Gottfried von Schenkendorf; Ludwig Uhland; Joseph von Eichendorff; Adalbert von Chamisso; Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann; Friedrich Baron de la Motte-Fouqué; Wilhelm Hauff; Friedrich Rükert; August von Platen-Hallermund
- Volume VI: Heinrich Heine; Franz Grillparzer; Ludwig van Beethoven
- Volume VII: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Bettina von Arnim; Karl Lebrecht Immermann; Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow; Anastasius Grün, Nikolaus Lenau; Eduard Mörike; Annette Elizabeth von Droste-Hülshoff; Ferdinand Freiligrath; Moritz Graf von Strachwitz; Georg Herwegh; Emanual Geigel
- Volume VIII: Berthold Auerbach; Jeremias Gotthelf; Fritz Reuter; Adalbert Stifter; Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl
- Volume IX: Friedrich Hebbel; Otto Ludwig
- Volume X: Prince Otto von Bismarck; Count Helmuth von Moltke; Ferdinand Lassalle
- Volume XI: Friedrich Spielhagen; Theodor Storm; Wilhelm Raabe
- Volume XII: Gustav Freytag; Theodor Fontane
- Volume XIII: Paul Heyse; Joseph Victor von Scheffel; Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach; Heinrich Seidel
- Volume XIV: Gottfried Keller; Conrad Ferdinand Meyer; Joseph Victor Widmann; Carl Spitteler
- Volume XV: Arthur Schopenhauer; Richard Wagner; Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; Emperor William II
- Volume XVI: Adolf Wilbrandt; Ludwig Anzengruber; Peter Rosegger; Karl Schönherr
- Volume XVII: Gerhart Hauptmann; Ferdinand von Saar; Detlev von Liliencron; Prince Emil von Schönaich-Carolath; Gustav Falke; Isolde Kurz; Richard Dehmel; Arno Holz; Otto Julius Bierbaum; Stefan George; Lulu von Strauss und Torney; Börries von Münchhausen; Rainer Maria Rilke; Hermann Hesse; Agnes Miegel; Ricarda Huch
- Volume XVIII: Ernst von Wildenbruch; Hermann Sudermann; Gustav Frenssen; Wilhelm von Polenz; Ludwig Fulda; Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Volume XIX: Helene Böhlau; Clara Viebig; Eduard von Keyserling; Thomas Mann; Ludwig Thoma; Rudolf Hans Bartsch; Emil Strauss; Hermann Hesse; Ernst Zahn; Jakob Schaffner
- Volume XX: Jakob Wassermann; Bernhard Kellermann; Max Halbe; Hugo von Hofmannsthal; Arthur Schnitzler; Frank Wedekind; Ernst Hardt
This is a "meta-book", which stitches together separate files elsewhere on the Web as they appeared in a previously published book. It is subject to removal if someone produces an integrated edition. If that happens, The Online Books Page will point to the integrated version.