Thomas Mann: New Selected StoriesA towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer "the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius. The headliner of this volume, "Chaotic