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Part of the TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS, this story, translated from the German by J.M.Q.Davies, tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband ...
A finely drawn portrayal of the disintegration of Austrian liberal society under the impact of nationalism and anti-semitism, The Road into the Open (...
Schnitzler's masterpiece, La Ronde, shows a spectrum of social class from prostitutes to noblemen in a series of drily observed, loveless sexual encou...
When Felix is diagnosed with a terminal illness, his lover Marie immediately swears to die with him. However, as their last year unfolds and Felix's i...
First English publication of a recently rediscovered novella by one of the greatest European writers One seemingly ordinary evening, Eduard Saxberger ...
Hands Around is a famous play with provocative sexual themes. It examines its time's sexual morality and class ideology through consecutive interactio...
This novel typifies the ethical and moral preoccupations of Arthur Schnitzler. Berta Garlan, a young widow with a small child, feeling isolated in the...
Foreword by Stanley Elkin Flirtations -- La Ronde -- Countess Mitzi, or The family reunion -- Casanova's homecoming -- Lieutenant Gustl....
Masterworks of Fiction
A new printing of the popular novel by Schnitzler....
Serving as the inspiration to an episode of ‘M.A.S.H.’ starring Alan Alda, ‘Hands Around’ is a short play, covering the conversations between ...
A married couple are troubled by events and jealous of each other's attentions the night before at a masquerade ball. Suddenly, Fridolin, a doctor, is...
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's j...
A coming-of-age novel, ‘The Road to the Open’ follows the complicated liaisons of composer, Baron Georg von Wergenthin. While a talented man, Werg...
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The Chronicle of a Woman's Life
A Play
Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde - A Play - (5m, 5f) La Ronde (the original German name is Reigen) is a play written by Arthur Schnitzler in 1897 and firs...
Anatol is a play by Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, published in 1893. It is a seven-act play set in late 19th century Vienna, depicting the ma...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
An Austrian nobleman falls in love with a commoner. -- Summary from the Pre-Code 1931 movie adaptation....
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 - 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.Arthur Schnitzler was born at Praterstrasse 16, Leopoldstadt, V...
Arthur Schnitzler's work has come to define Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i...
This second volume of Austrian Folk Plays gives further evidence of the popularity of this form among contemporary writers. In the late nineteenth cen...
Written almost as an interior monologue, ‘Bertha Garlan’ follows the eponymous Bertha on her quest for love. A widow in her thirties, Bertha previ...
And Other Stories and Novellas
Reinforces the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist....
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 ...
A Novel
Beatrice Heinold, widow of well-known actor Ferdinand, is summering at one of the small lake villages in the Salzkammergut with her son Hugo. This is ...
Flirtations * Round Dance * The Green Cockatoo * The Last Masks * Countess Mizzi * The Vast Domain * Professor Bernhardi The playwright Arthur Schnitz...
The Stories which Formed the Basis of the BBC TV Serial ...
"His yearning for Venice, the city of his birth, grew so intense that, like a wounded bird slowly circling downwards in its death flight, he began to ...
Preliminary Remarks Concerning Two Diagrams
" Je ne sais chanter d'autre chant que celui trop familier de l'amour, du jeu et de la mort ", écrivait Arthur Schnitzler. Exemplaire de cette triple...