In addition to the usual reference works, several sources were of particular value in preparing this text: Frank G. Ryder's edition in his anthology, Die Novelle (NY, 1971), Michael Fleming's translation in Eight German Novellas (Oxford, 1997), and a website created at the University of Bielefeld: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/seiler/Novelskurz/09kultur.htm.