Advance Anncuncement Concerning
LETTLE NOVELS
by Arthur Schnitzler
Publication 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.
It 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
accomplished in the field of the short-story. In these ten
LITTLE NOVELS (for their compactness surely entitles them to
the term) the publishers feel that they are offering to
Schnitzler’s eager and growing 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 with the relations
between men and women; one or two, such as ’The Prophecy“,
touch startlingly on the supernatural and the vorkings of
Fate; and the finest of the collection, a masterpiece among
masterpieces, is a tenderly beautiful study of the love betveen
a blind man and his brother. Anyone who begins TThe 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 IThe Greek Dancer“ and 'Blind
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 will now
become English classics also. They possess a grave and bur¬
nished 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 were
written years ago, some are more recent -- but they commend
themselves simply to all lovers of true Literature.
ABOLIT TIE AUTHOR---In 1925, the Inner Sanctum had the honor and good fortune to
publish Arthur Schnitzler’s novelette, ’Fraulein- Eisell. That
was almost five years ago. During those years, Arthur
Schnitzler, long accepted on tne continent as one of Europe's
greatest vriters, has made his way with increasing sureness
in Anerica. In rapid succession and with growing acchaim
four more novelettes vere published: ’Beatrice“ ’None But
the Brave“, PRhapsody“ and 'Daybreak“. Last year his fuli
Length novel, Theresa“, received the plaudits of both public
and critics; and it is with a sense that Schnitzler's fame 18
on the point of a brilliant consolidation, that these LITTLE
NOVELS are presented.
For i1lustration: Line drawing of Arthur Schnitzler. (Photographs also avai1¬
able Tor half-tone reproductions)
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LETTLE NOVELS
by Arthur Schnitzler
Publication 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.
It 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
accomplished in the field of the short-story. In these ten
LITTLE NOVELS (for their compactness surely entitles them to
the term) the publishers feel that they are offering to
Schnitzler’s eager and growing 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 with the relations
between men and women; one or two, such as ’The Prophecy“,
touch startlingly on the supernatural and the vorkings of
Fate; and the finest of the collection, a masterpiece among
masterpieces, is a tenderly beautiful study of the love betveen
a blind man and his brother. Anyone who begins TThe 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 IThe Greek Dancer“ and 'Blind
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 will now
become English classics also. They possess a grave and bur¬
nished 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 were
written years ago, some are more recent -- but they commend
themselves simply to all lovers of true Literature.
ABOLIT TIE AUTHOR---In 1925, the Inner Sanctum had the honor and good fortune to
publish Arthur Schnitzler’s novelette, ’Fraulein- Eisell. That
was almost five years ago. During those years, Arthur
Schnitzler, long accepted on tne continent as one of Europe's
greatest vriters, has made his way with increasing sureness
in Anerica. In rapid succession and with growing acchaim
four more novelettes vere published: ’Beatrice“ ’None But
the Brave“, PRhapsody“ and 'Daybreak“. Last year his fuli
Length novel, Theresa“, received the plaudits of both public
and critics; and it is with a sense that Schnitzler's fame 18
on the point of a brilliant consolidation, that these LITTLE
NOVELS are presented.
For i1lustration: Line drawing of Arthur Schnitzler. (Photographs also avai1¬
able Tor half-tone reproductions)
Form R