This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes: "Pogrom" and a selection from "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" by Arnold Zweig; "The Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz (recently cited as one of the 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time in a survey that was reported in "The Guardian", and made into a landmark multipart television series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by Alfred Doblin; Selections from "Jew Suss" and "The Oppermans" by Lion Feuchtwanger; and a selection from "The Seventh Cross" and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers.