title: Michael Kohlhaas (The Art of the Novella)
author: Heinrich Von Kleist
description: "I wanted them all, even those I'd already read."<br /> <b>Ron Rosenbaum, </b><i><b>The New York Observer</b></i><br /> <br /> "Small wonders."<br /> <b></b><i><b>Time Out London</b></i><br /> <br /> <i>"</i>[F]irst-rateastutely selected and attractively packagedindisputably great works."<br /> <b>Adam Begley, </b><i><b>The New York Observer</b></i><br /> <br /> "Ive always been haunted by Bartleby, the proto-slacker. But its the handsomely minimalist cover of the Melville House edition that gets me here, one of many in the small publishers fine 'Art of the Novella' series."<br /> <b></b><i><b>The New Yorker</b></i><br /> <br /> "The Art of the Novella series is sort of an anti-Kindle. What these singular, distinctive titles celebrate is book-ness. They're slim enough to be portable but showy enough to be conspicuously consumedtiny little objects that demand to be loved for the commodities they are."<br /> <b>KQED (NPR San Francisco)</b><br /> <br /> "Some like it short, and if you're one of them, Melville House, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has a line of books for you... elegant-looking paperback editions ...a good read in a small package."<br /> <b></b><i><b>The Wall Street Journal</b></i>
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  # MICHAEL KOHLHAAS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by
  
  
  Heinrich von Kleist
  
  
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  [_Prince Friedrich of Homburg_](https://www.ndbooks.com/book/prince-friedrich-
  of-homburg/#/)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![Michael Kohlhaas. By Heinrich von Kleist. Translated from the German by
  Michael Hofmann. A New Directions Ebook.](image/titlepage.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Translation copyright © 2020 by Michael Hofmann
  
  
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  First published as New Directions Paperbook 1473 in 2020
  
  
  Manufactured in the United States of America
  
  
  Design by Erik Rieselbach
  
  
  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_
  
  
  Names: Kleist