“The world might have blessed his memory had he not carried one virtue to too great an extreme. The feeling of justice made him a robber and a murderer.”
— “Michael Kohlhaas” by Heinrich Von Kleist
Blackstone and Skyboat Media present Michael Kohlhaas & Other Tales of Faith, Guilt, and Retribution, an original compilation of the tales of Heinrich Von Kleist.
This compilation features the title novella Michael Kohlhaas, the tale of a man forced to crime in order to gain back the horses that were stolen from him; “The Earthquake in Chile,” a love story that takes place in the chaos of the 1647 Santiago earthquake; along with five other stories and a dramatized reading of selected scenes from The Prince of Homburg.
Full Contents:
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Introduction by Stefan Rudnicki
Michael Kohlhaas: From an Old Chronicle
“St. Cecilia,” or, “The Power of Music: A Legend”
“The Beggarwoman of Locarno”
“The Foundling”
The Marquise of O
“The Earthquake in Chile”
“The Duel”
Scenes from The Prince of Homburg
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