Leigh’s Reviews > The Marquise of O— and Other Stories > Status Update

"About the middle of the sixteenth century there lived beside the banks of the River Havel a horse-dealer called Michael Kohlhaas, the son of a schoolmaster, who was one of the most honourable as well as one of the most terrible men of his age." I mean. No Kleist story will ever live up to Michael Kohlhaas in my book. The humor and rage and senseless injustice. It's astonishing that this was written in 1808.