Volume 9 of the collected works, edited by Hamish Reid, follows up on Volume 7 and includes texts from the years 1954 and 1955 that were published after the novel "House Without Guardians," which will be presented in Volume 8. Among these are famous stories such as "Fate of a Handleless Cup" and "The Bread of Early Years," as well as the magnificent satire "Dr. Murke's Collected Silence." Volume 9 (1954 - 1955) includes, among others: "We Have Become So Mild," "The Contemporary and Reality," "Here is Tibet," "Thus Evening and Morning Came," "Fate of a Handleless Cup," "Thoughts in the Schiller Year," "Tea with Dr. Borsig," "Chesterton on Dickens," "Knock Signs," "Daniel the Righteous," "New Novels by Young Authors," "The Five Stages of the Young Writer," "The Bread of Early Years," "The Voice of Wolfgang Borchert," "The Prisoner of an Anecdote," "Reports from the Murder Trial Against R. Mü.".