Maeve Brennan left behind astonishing, unforgettable stories. They exude the magic of a bygone era while being completely timeless. They are elegant, sharp-witted, and profoundly human. Brennan writes about couples in a Dublin suburb who make life difficult for each other with exquisite meanness, about Irish maids in an upscale apartment complex along the Hudson River, and about New York, this "most burdensome, ruthless, ambitious, confusing, funniest, saddest, coldest, and most human of all cities." Brennan's narrative work has been translated into numerous languages and is an indispensable part of the canon of Irish and American modernism. In German, her books have been published by Steidl since 2003. We honor this masterful storyteller with a lovingly crafted complete edition in two volumes. But beware: "We.