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The Lord Chandos Letter (Syrens)
by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
from Penguin Books Ltd
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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A classic, in a great translation 
I'll just add a little to Daniel Myers's review. These stories have long been classics of modernist literature, and they should be read by everyone interested in the history of Symbolism, the heritage of Poe, the history of fantasy fiction, and the development of what Robert Musil called "daylight mysticism" (that's in his "Posthumous Papers of a Living Author," also on Amazon).
What I'd like to add to Myers is that "The Lord Chandos Letter" is a very important text in the history of modernist mistrust... more info
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The Epistle of Modernism
In the supreme example of High Modernist irony, Hofmannsthal eloquently explains why he can no longer communicate. He is an exemplar for Kafka, Borges, Joyce, everyone.
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Dreamworks 
This little book is rather difficult to review, for any number of reasons, not the least of which being that what are called the "stories" herein are not really stories at all in the common sense of the word but rather haunting, oneiric vignettes which end as abruptly as they begin - To call them impressionistic would be not only an understatement, but not quite right. - All the characters limned here live in a sort of dreamworld always accompanied by that indefinable, unlocalised sense of dread and... more info
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