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  Dream Story

  by Arthur Schnitzler

  This book details the thoughts and psychological transformations of Doctor Fridolin over a two-day period. In this short time, he meets many people who give a clue to the world Schnitzler is creating for us. This culminates in the masquerade ball, a wondrous event of masked individualism, sex, and danger for Fridolin the outsider.Albertine und Fridolin führen eine scheinbar glückliche und... (more)
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  Bachelors

  Novellas and Stories

  by Arthur Schnitzler

  In Margret Schaefer's third collection of newly translated fiction from Arthur Schnitzler, we find him focusing a clear and unforgiving eye on the minds of men who desire, fantasize about, and try to relate to women. Young or old, they are all bachelors--a young officer (Lieutenant Gustl), a middle-aged physician (Doctor Graesler), an aging roue (Casanova's Homecoming). Although Schnitzler's topic is... (more)
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  Selected Short Fiction

  by Arthur Schnitzler

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: German
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  Fräulein Else

  by Arthur Schnitzler

  Fraulein Else is the story of a young woman who, while staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, receives a telegram from her mother begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by approaching an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Forced into a reality entirely at odds with her romantic imagination, Else realises that her world is one in which everything has a price.
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  Desire and Delusion

  Three Novellas

  by Arthur Schnitzler

  Dying, Flight into Darkness, and Fraulein Else reveal the depths of Schnitzler's psychological and moral understanding of life as well as the masterful storytelling techniques that immerse the reader into the very center of his characters' thoughts and emotions. The tales of Arthur Schnitzler--especially as rendered in Margret Schaefer's clear, uncluttered translations--are many suggestive, allusive, and dreamlike... (more)
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  Eyes Wide Shut

  by Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler

  Dream Story...is a sensual tale that explores the subconscious, forbidden desires of a husband and wife, in both their dreams and fantasies and their increasingly daring sexual adventures. Ahead of its time and marked by the deep influence of the author's contemporary, Sigmund Freud, Schnitzler's novel has become a modernist classic. In this volume the original story's themes of depravity and the elusive ambiguity... (more)
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  Lieutenant Gustl

  by Arthur Schnitzler, Hans-Ulrich Lindken, Maël Renouard

  Originally translated as None But the Brave in 1926, Lieutenant Gustl is one of the great Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler's most accomplished novels. Written entirely in the form of an interior monologue -- the book highly influenced James Joyce in Ulysses -- the novel recounts the moment-to-moment experiences of a swaggering Austrian military man. In a cloakroom argument after a comment, a baker, reacting... (more)
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  Hands-Around

  by Arthur Schnitzler, John Barton

  Arthur Schnitzler, Translated by Eric Bentley Full Length, Comedy Characters: 5 male, 5 female By the author of the classic romantic romp The Loves of Anatol , Schnitzler's popular roundelay of love in old Vienna is told in ten interwoven scenes: two characters appear in each and one of these moves into the next. The soldier of the first scene leaves a prostitute to appear in the next scene with a parlor maid.... (more)
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  Verbrannte Bücher

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