Der Löwe Alois und andere Geschichten

In the first of these delicious comic stories, a little orphaned lion cub is raised by sheep and thinks he's one too. I totally LOL'd at his encounter with an older lion who couldn't believe his eyes when grass-grazing Alois started baa-ing at him. The animals speak Viennese, which is all the more hilarious. Another story expands on a tale of a murderer (from The Golem) who ends up as a mild-mannered gardener in a nunnery; there's a report from the Otherworld, run just as burocratically as This World; and another modern fable, of a high-thinking Oriental sage (a camel), eventually coming to a dire end when his Western pals lose ideals to hunger.