Book cover for Michael Kohlhaas & Other Tales of Faith, Guilt, and Retribution

Michael Kohlhaas & Other Tales of Faith, Guilt, and Retribution

Description of book

“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:

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

English