Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Born in Prague, where he spent his childhood and youth, he lived in Berlin, Paris, and Switzerland. His worldwide fame came from his collections “The Book of Images,” “The Book of Hours,” “Sonnets to Orpheus.” Yet Rilke’s prose is no less beautiful and significant than his poetry. This complete volume includes all of the author’s well-known prose works, among them the brilliant novel “The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge,” “The Song of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke,” the fairy tale “The Dragon That Overcame,” a short sketch “Pierre Dumont,” his prose poems, and—added as an appendix—an essay about Rodin, as well as the famous “Letters on Cézanne” and “Letters to a Young Poet,” which powerfully express the poet’s views on poetry and art.