Atlantis

Published in 1912, 'Atlantis' by Gerhart Hauptmann follows Frederick von Kammacher, a troubled young doctor in Germany whose life is in disarray due to his wife's insanity and his ruined career. He becomes enamored with a teenage dancer and impulsively boards a steamship bound for New York, where a catastrophic event occurs mid-ocean, eerily foreshadowing the Titanic disaster that happened shortly after. Hauptmann's prescient narrative is notable for its exploration of human despair and the unpredictability of fate.