Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin which spans the full arc

which spans the full arc of Chekhov's career and includes a number of tales translated into English for the first time

It is still the eighteenth of November

Or the Duke d'Anjou

Seoul Station is home to Dokgo

Consumed by sensual pleasure and power games

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin which spans the full arcFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall. Original