Caspar Hauser: The Enigma of a Century

With an introduction written especially for the American edition by the author, this is undoubtedly one of the most important works to reach us from abroad. This novel is considered by most European critics the finest and most important of Wassermann’s novels. It now makes its first appearance in English. Caspar Hauser, that strange figure which puzzled Europe in the years from 1823, when he first appeared, to 1833, when he met his inexplicable death, has remained an unsolved mystery to thi...