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Schmtzler
ARTHUR SCHNITZLER
andthe SOUL of VIENNA
Is amemorable tribute to the author of Little
Novels, Ludwig Lewisohn fayr: The chill
winds of the harsh dutn of a neu world blow
angrily about the aging master. He remembers
hir youth Nothing cun e###eelihe smooth,
sirm beauty of Schir#le####le aull rechnique
...This ir the Wienna, this the Jalaburg of
the dayr of the Empire. Lise hud a neo-Pugan
elegance, an autunmal charm
lt is customary indeed to characterige Arthur
Schnitzler #s the quintersence of Wienna.
Heevokes not ouly the glow and tragedy of love
in Wienna . .. but the mutic of Wienna in the
nnancer of his prosethe science of Vienna
in his rezearches into the zub-conscious 7e
craftsmanship of Wienna in bis skill
For more than ihree decnder Arthur Schnitz¬
ler# #hort stories, novelettes and dramas have
been acclaimed by critics and readers sor their
tenderness, their wit, their compartion, their
melancholy splendor. In the last sew gears, the
American #uccerr of Fräulein Elsc, Rhapsody,
Beatrice, Daybreak und Therese hure con¬
Jolidated a growing same and brought to many
readers the unduplicabie glamour of his art.
box 35/11
(ATA1Z) Vrom Tun Innen Sancron #
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Wno can weave the pattern of
ings of Fate, and ehe finest of che
Viennese life wich such magic as
collection, a masterpiece among mas¬
Arthur Schnitzler drawing from
terpieces, is a tenderly beautiful
words the same haunting beauty
study of che love berween a blind
that Kreisler draws from stringse
man and his brocher.
Who can so cffectively blend che en¬
chantment and disenchantment, the
Anyone who begins the Fate off
arrogance and humility, the tragedy
the Baren, which opens this collec¬
and high comedy of love on the
tion of Little Norelr, will not put
shores of the song-laden Danubee
down these pages until che last
paragraph of the final story, The
In Little Novelr, the author of
Death of a Bachelor.
Fräulein Else, Khapsody, Daybreak,
Beatrice and Anatol, again peers into
In these ten Little Novelr Cfor their
the sub-conscious with che cyc of
compactness surely entitles them to
genius—thecye that illuminates and
this term), the publishers belicve
holds spell-bound.
that chey arc offering to Schnitzler’s
cager and growing American au¬
Most of these ten tales, employ¬
dience the perfect flower of che
ing that gravely ironical manner
genius of the Viennese master. The
which is Schnitzler's own, deal wich
book has just
the rclations
been published
between men
222 sron Tun INnen Sancruntof
and is on sale ar
and women.One
SIMON and SCHUSTER
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or two, such as
Publicherr 37 West S7th Strect Neu York
storc for 52.50.
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