Adalbert Stifter

• May-2021
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The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas.For Kafka he was “my fat brother”; Thomas Mann called him “one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and ...

• May-2009
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Leaving the home of his foster mother to begin his working life, young Victor stops to visit his uncle, who long ago sealed himself away from the world, on a island in a lake, high in the Austrian alps. The old man, who has never known love, lives ba...

• Sep-2008
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Seemingly the simplest of stories -- a passing anecdote of village life -- Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the mo...

• Feb-1995
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The heroine of "Brigitta" makes a corner of the Hungarian plains bloom. "Limestone" tells of a priest whose erotic encounter determines his behaviour. "Abdias" is the epic story of a Jew raised in the African desert. The hero of "The Forest Path" is ...

• Jan-1991
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Richly evocative and brushed with mystery...a wonderful new translation." - Publishers Weekly. "A writer who portrayed the development of people, how they overcome antagonistic forces of family and nature and very often have to pay a great price unti...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...