Translator’s Acknowledgment
1.The Red Light
2.The Settlers
3.A Big-City Afternoon
4.Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow
5.Crazy Magdalena
6.The Legacy
7.The Poorhouse of St. Laurin
8.Great, Inconceivable Hunger
9.A Winter’s Day in the Mountains
10.The Decline of the West
11.The Landscape of the Mother
12.An Oldish Man Named August
13.The Story of a Man Who Left Home to See the World
14.The Pig-Keeper
15.Occurrences
16.A Springtime
17.A Witness’s Testimony
18.A Young Writer
19.A Country Confidence Man
20.A Woman from the Foundry and the Man with the Rucksack
21.Lowlands
Translator’s Notes