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14. Little Novels
FOR RÄVLEWERS, EDTTORS AND BOOKSELLERS
en Tus Innen Sancrun
SIMON and SCHUSTER
Pablihers.37 West 57th Street.Nem York
□u 1n
Advance Announcement Concerning
LITTLE NOVELS
by Arthur Schnitzler
Fublication Date August 22nd (Thursday) 1929. —Please do not release your
review before this date.
Price
82.50
Specifications: 12mo, cloth, 279 pages.
ABOUT TI BOCK--——-Here, in its essence, is the perfection of Arthur Schnitzler.
Tt may surprise those who know Schnitzler only through his
novels and novelettes to learn that the majority of continental.
critics believe his finest and most enduring work to have been
accomplishod in the field of the short-story. In these ten
LITTLE NOVELS (for their compactness surely entitles them to
the term) the publishers fee1 that they are offering to
Schnitzler's eager and growäng Anerican audience the perfect
flower of the genius of the Viennese master.
Most of these tales, employing that gravely ironical manner
which is Schnitzler's very oun, deal wäth the relations
between men and women; one or two, such as IThe Prophecy“,
touch startlingly on the supernatural and thevorkings of
Fate; and the fänest of the collection, a masterpiece among
masterpieces, is a tenderly beautiful study of the love between
a blind man and his brother. Anyone who begins ’The Fate of
the Baron“, which opens the collection, will not cease to turn
the pages until he has fünished The Death of a Bachelor“,
which closes it.
Many of these stories, such as ’The Greek Dancer“ and VBlind
Geronimo and His Brother“, have for long been accepted as
German classics; it is to be hoped that by virtue of Eric
Sutton's graceful and intelligent translation they wi1l now
become English classics also. They possess a grave and bur¬
nisbed beauty of style and an astonishing compactness not to
be found, perhaps, even in Schnitzler’s famous novelettes.
They obey no particular literary canon —- many of them vere
written years ago, some are more recent —- but they commend
themsellves simply to all lovers of true Literature.
ABOLIT TIIE AUTHOR---In 1925, the Inner Sanctum had the honor and good fortune to
publish Arthur Schnitzler's novelette, ’Fraulein Eisel. That
was almost five years ago. During those years, Arthur
Schnitzler, long accepted on tne contänent as one of Europe's
14. Little Novels
FOR RÄVLEWERS, EDTTORS AND BOOKSELLERS
en Tus Innen Sancrun
SIMON and SCHUSTER
Pablihers.37 West 57th Street.Nem York
□u 1n
Advance Announcement Concerning
LITTLE NOVELS
by Arthur Schnitzler
Fublication Date August 22nd (Thursday) 1929. —Please do not release your
review before this date.
Price
82.50
Specifications: 12mo, cloth, 279 pages.
ABOUT TI BOCK--——-Here, in its essence, is the perfection of Arthur Schnitzler.
Tt may surprise those who know Schnitzler only through his
novels and novelettes to learn that the majority of continental.
critics believe his finest and most enduring work to have been
accomplishod in the field of the short-story. In these ten
LITTLE NOVELS (for their compactness surely entitles them to
the term) the publishers fee1 that they are offering to
Schnitzler's eager and growäng Anerican audience the perfect
flower of the genius of the Viennese master.
Most of these tales, employing that gravely ironical manner
which is Schnitzler's very oun, deal wäth the relations
between men and women; one or two, such as IThe Prophecy“,
touch startlingly on the supernatural and thevorkings of
Fate; and the fänest of the collection, a masterpiece among
masterpieces, is a tenderly beautiful study of the love between
a blind man and his brother. Anyone who begins ’The Fate of
the Baron“, which opens the collection, will not cease to turn
the pages until he has fünished The Death of a Bachelor“,
which closes it.
Many of these stories, such as ’The Greek Dancer“ and VBlind
Geronimo and His Brother“, have for long been accepted as
German classics; it is to be hoped that by virtue of Eric
Sutton's graceful and intelligent translation they wi1l now
become English classics also. They possess a grave and bur¬
nisbed beauty of style and an astonishing compactness not to
be found, perhaps, even in Schnitzler’s famous novelettes.
They obey no particular literary canon —- many of them vere
written years ago, some are more recent —- but they commend
themsellves simply to all lovers of true Literature.
ABOLIT TIIE AUTHOR---In 1925, the Inner Sanctum had the honor and good fortune to
publish Arthur Schnitzler's novelette, ’Fraulein Eisel. That
was almost five years ago. During those years, Arthur
Schnitzler, long accepted on tne contänent as one of Europe's