These "truly Ingolstadt original novellas," which were published in 1929 under the title "A Pound of Oranges and Nine Other Stories," are Marieluise Fleisser's first book publication. Lion Feuchtwanger and Bertolt Brecht encouraged the then 26-year-old author to publish. The book was unanimously praised in the press by critics as diverse as Alfred Kerr and Herbert Jhering, and Walter Benjamin foresaw: "This woman enriches our literature with the rare spectacle of unabashed provincial pride. She simply has the conviction that one can have experiences in the provinces that can hold their own against the great life of the metropolises; indeed, she considers these experiences important enough to shape her identity and authorship around them... The rebellious dialect that bursts the confines of regional art from within is just one side of the linguistic.".