German bilingual edition

I am looking for a German-English or German-French edition of a German book to help me improve my German. I'd like something good, of course, but it has to use a lot of rather common vocabulary and rather bland structure and syntax. It should also have to be modern German. Even if you don't know if it's in a bilingual edition, it doesn't matter, just name a book (preferably a novella, short stories is even better) that is well-known enough to be possibly in such an edition.

I was thinking about Zweig, good idea?

Thanks,

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Originally Posted by Etienne

I am looking for a German-English or German-French edition of a German book to help me improve my German. I'd like something good, of course, but it has to use a lot of rather common vocabulary and rather bland structure and syntax. It should also have to be modern German. Even if you don't know if it's in a bilingual edition, it doesn't matter, just name a book (preferably a novella, short stories is even better) that is well-known enough to be possibly in such an edition.

I was thinking about Zweig, good idea?

Thanks,

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I dont have any bi-lingual books in German, only those in the original language, but among those by Stefan Zweig there is a book called
Schachnovelle. It's just over 100 pages and is very well known in German speaking countries. It shouldn't be too difficult to obtain a bi-lingual copy.
Another is a collection of Zweig's short stories published under the title
Verwirrung der Gefuhle;there is an umlaut over the last letter U.

Lately I came to my great amazement across some bilingual books English-German of Reclam Verlag. They are the cheapest you can get in Germany but they are very big. They produce little pocket books in bright colours as yellow, green, red, blue even with a black stripe and only the title. No photos or nice covers. You see them straight away. The only ones I saw really bilingual were Shakespeare and such big things, but maybe you can find others?