Fragment of a Novel a "ghost writing" contest was proposed. This contest was also what led to the creation of "Frankenstein" according to Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 Preface to the novel. The story is important in the development and evolution of the vampire story in English literature as one of the first to feature the modern vampire as able to function in society in disguise. The short story first appeared under the title "A Fragment" in the 1819 collection "Mazeppa: A Poem", published by John Murray in London. The story is written in an epistolary form with the narrator recounting the events that had
Little Man, What Now? (novel) Little Man, What Now? (novel) Little Man, What Now? (German title: "Kleiner Mann – was nun?") is a novel by Hans Fallada, which although first published in June 1932, is set between 1930 and November 1932. The book was an immediate success in Germany, given its intense descriptions of the harsh life in the years after the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the first years of the Great Depression. The book was also the breakthrough for Fallada as a writer of fiction. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, Fallada had to make a few changes to the