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Vienna Tales

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199669791
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Vienna Tales written by Helen Constantine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated on the cusp of West and East, between the foothills of the Alps and the mighty 'Blue Danube', Vienna has long presented authors with a wealth of material for stories that entertain and intrigue. The city's famous quality of life and rich variety of cultural offerings is apparent here at every turn, but so too is its darker side, whether it be the Viennese obsession with death and decay or the dramatic, tragic events of its twentieth-century history. In stories from the early to mid-nineteenth century in particular, the city stands for wine, women and song, for a laid-back - - perhaps somewhat lax?- - outlook on life that is invariably linked to its location as German culture's southernmost centre. In more recent tales, the theme of the good life and of Vienna's beauty continues, but there are very few authors who do not dwell on elements of darkness or melancholy. Indeed, from the mid-twentieth century onward, death itself seems to have become literature's preferred guide to the city. The collection concentrates on stories set at the city's margins. The tales are arranged geographically rather than chronologically, around and through the city from west to east and back again. We begin and end with Arthur Schnitzler and Joseph Roth, two authors already indelibly associated with Vienna, but represented here by little-known gems, translated for the first time. Other authors include stars of Vienna's nineteenth century feuilleton journalism - Heinrich Laube, Ferdinand Kurnberger, Adalbert Stifter - but also the most recent generation of Viennese writers, Doron Rabinovici, Eva Menasse, Dimitre Dinev, with tales as yet unknown in English.

Vienna Tales

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191648574
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Vienna Tales written by Helen Constantine and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated on the cusp of West and East, between the foothills of the Alps and the mighty 'Blue Danube', Vienna has long presented authors with a wealth of material for stories that entertain and intrigue. The city's famous quality of life and rich variety of cultural offerings is apparent here at every turn, but so too is its darker side, whether it be the Viennese obsession with death and decay or the dramatic, tragic events of its twentieth-century history. In stories from the early to mid-nineteenth century in particular, the city stands for wine, women and song, for a laid-back - - perhaps somewhat lax?- - outlook on life that is invariably linked to its location as German culture's southernmost centre. In more recent tales, the theme of the good life and of Vienna's beauty continues, but there are very few authors who do not dwell on elements of darkness or melancholy. Indeed, from the mid-twentieth century onward, death itself seems to have become literature's preferred guide to the city. The collection concentrates on stories set at the city's margins. The tales are arranged geographically rather than chronologically, around and through the city from west to east and back again. We begin and end with Arthur Schnitzler and Joseph Roth, two authors already indelibly associated with Vienna, but represented here by little-known gems, translated for the first time. Other authors include stars of Vienna's nineteenth century feuilleton journalism - Heinrich Laube, Ferdinand Kürnberger, Adalbert Stifter - but also the most recent generation of Viennese writers, Doron Rabinovici, Eva Menasse, Dimitré Dinev, with tales as yet unknown in English.

Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes?

Author : Mark Skousen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621573699
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Vienna & Chicago, Friends or Foes? written by Mark Skousen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the bridge between the Austrian and Chicago schools coming together or moving apart? In Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes? economist and author Mark Skousen debates the Austrian and Chicago schools of free-market economics, which differ in monetary policy, business cycle, government policy, and methodology. Both have played a successful role in advancing classic free-market economics and countering the critics of capitalism during crucial times and the battle of ideas. But, which of the two is correct in its theories?

Tales of Old Vienna and Other Prose

Author : Adalbert Stifter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781572412033
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old Vienna and Other Prose written by Adalbert Stifter and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Condor; The Ancient Seal; Tourmaline; Granite: Confidence; Prose Poem (from Indian summer); The Eclipse of the Sun in 1842; My Life: An Autobiographical Sketch; Preface to Colored Stones. 165 pages, retailing at $14.95 "Alexander Stillmark is Emeritus Reader in German at University College London. A comparative literary scholar and a leading specialist in Austrian Studies, he has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century topics. His translation both from and into German include: Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose (London 2001; Evanston Illinois 2005); Gedichte in Prosa Von der Romantik bis zur Jahrhundertwende (Frankfurt am Main, 2013); and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, An Impossible Man (Cambridge, 2016).."

The Vienna Paradox

Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811215718
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book The Vienna Paradox written by Marjorie Perloff and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics.

True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera

Author : Lotfi Mansouri
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459705157
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book True Tales from the Mad, Mad, Mad World of Opera written by Lotfi Mansouri and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When things go wrong at the opera house, they really go wrong. No one has a greater or more intimate knowledge of such moments than Mansouri. From the hilarious to the bizarre, this is a reader-friendly look at what is often thought of as an overly serious, even mysterious form of art.

RUSSIAN CLASSICS Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends

Author : Mikhail Lermontov
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book RUSSIAN CLASSICS Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends written by Mikhail Lermontov and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 9301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you a meticulously edited collection of Russian classics. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Introduction: The History of the Russian Empire Novels & Novellas: Dead Souls A Hero of Our Time Oblomov Fathers and Sons Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Brothers Karamazov Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Anton Chekhov: The Steppe: The Story of a Journey Ward No. 6 Mother (Maxim Gorky) Satan's Diary (Leonid Andreyev) Plays: The Choice of a Tutor (Denis Fonvizin) The Inspector General; or, The Government Inspector (Nikolai Gogol) Anton Chekhov: On the High Road Swan Song, A Play in one Act Ivanoff The Anniversary; or, the Festivities The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard… Leo Tolstoy: The Power of Darkness The First Distiller Fruits of Culture The Live Corpse The Cause of it All The Light Shines in Darkness Leonid Andreyev: Savva The Life of Man Nikolai Evreinov: A Merry Death The Beautiful Despot Short Stories: The Queen of Spades The Cloak The District Doctor The Christmas Tree and the Wedding God Sees the Truth, but Waits How A Muzhik Fed Two Officials The Shades, a Phantasy The Heavenly Christmas Tree The Peasant Marey The Crocodile Bobok The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Mumu The Viy Knock, Knock, Knock The Inn Lieutenant Yergunov's Story The Dog The Watch… Russian Folk Tales & Legends: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister One-Eyed Likho Woe… Essays: On Russian Novelists Lectures on Russian Novelists

Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague

Author : Egon Erwin Kisch
Publisher : Plunkett Lake Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague written by Egon Erwin Kisch and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague (Marktplatz der Sensationen) is the memoir of the writer who elevated journalism to the status of literature in 20th century Europe. Taking his cue from the blind Czech balladeer who sang in the courtyard of his family’s Prague apartment in the 1890s, Egon Erwin Kisch created a body of work based in fact. Kisch wrote Sensation Fair in Mexico during his exile from Nazi-occupied Europe as Stefan Zweig was writing The World of Yesterday in Brazil. Although the writers were Central European Jewish contemporaries, they could not have been more different. Sensation Fair is the memoir of a former police reporter and dedicated Communist. His rollicking, ironic, muckraking portrait of turn-of-the century Prague is a passionate argument for the value of non-fiction narrative. “delightfully and cleverly done, with dozens of good yarns and stories in it ... He writes with a touch and a wit of his own.” — The New York Times “Sensation Fair is brisk story and haunting picture of a youth in old Prague, journalism in the Austro-Hungarian Empire ... conspicuously varied both in substance and mood. Egon Erwin Kisch can see life and write of it with incisive concentration and romantic allusiveness, tenderness and ribaldry, humor and candor and scorn ... a lively and mellow picture, personal and not too nostalgic, of a bygone world.” — The New York Times “One feels in the presence of this book, as in the presence of the author himself, a richness and zest that cannot be defeated in the most difficult conditions of exile ... at once considered and colloquial ... one sees reflected the buoyancy and seriousness which are equally basic to [Kisch’s] character.” — The New Masses

Tales from the Vienna Woods

Author : Ödön von Horváth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571223046
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Vienna Woods written by Ödön von Horváth and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the sentimental backdrop of the Vienna Woods and to the distant tune of a Strauss Waltz, a community steeped in bigotry concerns itself with love affairs, petty squabbles, jealousies and personal tragedy. Meanwhile, society at large, haunted by inflation, goes reeling towards Fascism.

The Habsburg Twilight

Author : Sarah Gainham
Publisher : Atheneum Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Habsburg Twilight written by Sarah Gainham and published by Atheneum Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three Tales from Vienna

Author : Ray Kingfisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Three Tales from Vienna written by Ray Kingfisher and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic saga spanning a century and three generations of a Jewish family is Ray Kingfisher's most original and ambitious novel to date.Three Tales from Vienna follows the fortunes of the Rosenthal family through the eyes of three sisters: the prim but compassionate Alicia, the confident social butterfly that is Giselle, and the studious baby of the family, Klara. But this is more than a tale of three ordinary Jewish sisters; this is also three tales of one great city, of how the changes brought about by union with Hitler's Germany would prove to have a devastating effect on the character of Vienna as well as the Rosenthal family. Tale One - Calm Waters, Ordinary Lives - is set before the union with Germany, when the three sisters enjoy a typical carefree existence, each searching for love and fulfilment in her own individual manner, each doing her best to ignore the looming cloud of their country's aggressive neighbor. Covering Vienna's most tumultuous years, Tale Two - A Bitter North Wind - sees the sisters' lives torn apart by the brutal National Socialist regime, forcing each of them to deal with persecution in strikingly different ways. In the post-war setting of Tale Three - Salvage and Legacy

Love is a beautiful thing

Author : American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love is a beautiful thing written by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The last ball, and other tales

Author : George Soane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The last ball, and other tales written by George Soane and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vienna Stories Omnibus. Life is a Story - story.one

Author : Vitalina Vergeles
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3710834325
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Vienna Stories Omnibus. Life is a Story - story.one written by Vitalina Vergeles and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace the enchantment and thrill of Vienna's captivating stories as you delve into the city's rich history, folklore, and supernatural mysteries. In the heart of Vienna's school corridors, a peculiar teacher harbors a surprising secret: a passion for donning clown attire in his off-hours. Experience the chilling tale of a woman's crippling fear of cats, an aversion that threatens to consume her very existence. Step into the world of Royal Poodle, the devoted dog companion of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as "Sisi."Venture into the mystical realm of the Wienerwald Witch Coven, a secret society of women wielding ancient magic.Delve into the enigma of the Dancing Plague of 1518, a bizarre historical episode in which individuals were seized by an irresistible urge to dance until exhaustion or death. Embrace the allure of the Devils Ball, an enigmatic gathering of the supernatural.

The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna

Author : David Wyn Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009276476
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Strauss Dynasty and Habsburg Vienna written by David Wyn Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A zesty biography reassessing the Strauss family's musical achievements within wider Habsburg society and its cultural life as a whole.

Vienna

Author : Donald G. Daviau
Publisher : Traveler's Literary Companions
ISBN 13 : 9781883513108
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Vienna written by Donald G. Daviau and published by Traveler's Literary Companions. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vienna is a city with a storied past - and the stories in this collection give life and breath to that past. As might be expected from fictions about a city that was once home to Sigmund Freud, there is soul searching here, along with a wide range of insights into the human condition. There is humor too, exemplified in the first story, in which a sincere but ill-informed tour guide (mis)leads tourists around Vienna from morning to night. Although the stories are grouped by the city's neighborhoods, you will surely want to trespass these boundaries."--BOOK JACKET.

Cabals and Satires

Author : Ian Woodfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190692634
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Cabals and Satires written by Ian Woodfield and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Joseph II placed his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel, he provoked an intense struggle between supporters of the rival national genres, who organized claques to cheer or hiss at performances, and encouraged press correspondents to write slanted notices. It was in this fraught atmosphere that Mozart collaborated with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte on his three mature Italian comedies--Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. In Cabals and Satires: Mozart's Comic Operas in Vienna, Ian Woodfield brings the fascinating dynamics of this inter-troupe contest into focus. He reveals how Mozart, while not immune from the infighting, was able to weather satirical attacks, successfully negotiate the unpredictable twists and turns of theatre politics during the lean years of the Austro-Turkish War, and seal his reputation with a revival of Figaro in 1789 as a Habsburg festive work. Mozart's deft navigation of the turbulent political waters of this period left him well placed to benefit from the revival of the commercial stage in Vienna--the most enduring musical consequence of the war years.