Michael Kohlhaas

Blurb

Michael Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume 6 of his literary journal Phöbus in June 1808. The complete work was published in the first volume of Kleist's Erzählungen in 1810.
Both the theme and the style are surprisingly modern. They resonated with other authors more than a century after they were written.