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Traumnovelle (Ein Erotik Klassiker): Geheimnisvolle Entdeckungsreise in die erotischen Tiefen der eigenen Psyche by Arthur Schnitzler 9788026855828
Booksplease Price: £6.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026855828Author Arthur SchnitzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint < -
Tales from the DUAL MONARCHY: Twenty Austrian and Hungarian stories from the Golden Age before the First World War Arthur Schnitzler 9781916568075
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916568075Author Arthur SchnitzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929 Sebastian P. Klinger 9781421450803
RRP: £34.50Booksplease Price: £26.03An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a... -
Casanovas Heimfahrt: Desillusionierung eines Verf hrers: Eine erotische Novelle des Autors von Traumnovelle, Reigen und Fr ulein Else by Arthur Schnitzler 9788026855590
Booksplease Price: £6.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788026855590Author Arthur SchnitzlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint < -
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Married Life: a novel by David Vogel 9781922070586 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £4.64David Vogel has long been regarded as a leading figure of Hebrew literature, and his work has been compared to that of Joseph Roth, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka. Married Life, which was first... -
Adapting Sex on Screen: The Cinematic Biographies of Lulu, La Ronde and Venus in Furs Julian Preece 9781350538139
Booksplease Price: £98.56Tracing the adaptation histories of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, and Frank Wedekind's play Lulu, Julian Preece explores how these works were... -
The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X. George
Booksplease Price: £28.55Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often... -
The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X George
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £38.87Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siecle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the... -
Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought: Twentieth-Century Central Europe and American Migration by Bronislava Volkova
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central... -
Before Brecht: Four German Plays by Eric Bentley 9780879102494
Booksplease Price: £20.70Collects influential plays by the distinguished German authors Carl Sternheim, Georg Buchner, Arthur Schnitzler, and Frank WedekindBook InformationISBN 9780879102494Author Eric BentleyFormat... -
Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Stefan Zweig was a born eulogist. In this collection of powerful elegies, homages and personal memories, Zweig forms a richly interconnected portrait of key creative figures in the European cultural... -
Friedrich Nietzsche's Impact on Modern German Literature: Five Essays by Herbert W. Reichert 9781469658186
Booksplease Price: £23.74These previously published essays discuss Nietzsche's influence on Arthur Schnitzler, Carl Sternheim, Georg Kaiser, Robert Musil, and Hermann Hesse. As a Festschrift, it also contains a tribute to... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes 9780691244754
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in... -
Buried Treasures: The Power of Political Fairy Tales by Jack Zipes
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Fascinating profiles of modern writers and artists who tapped the political potential of fairy talesJack Zipes has spent decades as a "scholarly scavenger," discovering forgotten fairy tales in... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs 9780691147116
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.95A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary... -
The Cloak of Dreams: Chinese Fairy Tales by Bela Balazs
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A... -
Tom Stoppard Plays 4: Dalliance; Undiscovered Country; Rough Crossing; On the Razzle; The Seagull by Tom Stoppard
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37This fourth volume of Tom Stoppard's work for the stage brings together five of his most celebrated translations and adaptations of plays by Arthur Schnitzler (Dalliance and Undiscovered Country),... -
Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914 by Peter Gay 9780393323634
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £20.11An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the nineteenth century, Schnitzler's Century is the culmination of Peter Gay's thirty-five years of scholarship on... -
Night Games: And Other Stories and Novellas by John Simon 9781566635066
Booksplease Price: £14.24These artful new translations of nine of Arthur Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas-including "Dream Story," on which Stanley Kubrick based his widely acclaimed film Eyes Wide... -
Lexikon Deutsch-jeudischer Autoren by Archiv Bibliographia Judaica E V 9783598226991
RRP: £138.00Booksplease Price: £89.35Das Lexikon deutsch-j�discher Autoren erschlie�t den j�dischen Beitrag zur deutschsprachigen Kulturgeschichte in ca. 1.300 biographisch-bibliographischen Artikeln. Der biographische Teil der... -
In Search of Venice by Paul Morand 9781906548605
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £41.56The best of Pushkin Press on Venice, the iconic city. Beautifully designed by David Pearson and Clare Skeats and exclusive to Pushkin Press, this box set contains the Venice literature must-reads:... -
Fritz Lang`s Metropolis - Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear by Michael Minden
Booksplease Price: £27.60A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist film,Metropolis. Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has justifiably... -
Schubert in the European Imagination, Volume 2 - Fin-de-Siecle Vienna by Scott Messing 9781580462136
Booksplease Price: £109.33Schubert in the European Imagination: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna examines the composer's historical and cultural reception by Viennese modernists. By 1900, issues of gender had crossed with those of... -
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni 9781566635363
Booksplease Price: £8.71"First I've got no master, then all of a sudden I've got two!...I can't wait on both of them....Wait a minute....Get two pay packets, and eat and drink for two? Why not?" Carlo Goldoni's crafty... -
A Chess Story Stefan Zweig 9781805332411
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game' Economist 'Zweig belongs with those masters of the novella - Maupassant, Turgenev, Chekhov' Paul Bailey, TLS Chess... -
Eyes Wide Shut by Michel Chion
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Stanley Kubrick died on 7 March 1999 at his Hertfordshire home, having finished the editing of his last film. Eyes Wide Shut was released later that year. Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's 1926... -
The Blue Room by David Hare
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Schnitzler described Reigen, his loose series of sexual sketches, as 'completely unprintable'. The company that first presented them was prosecuted for obscenity in 1921. It was only when Max Ophuls... -
A German Christmas by Various 9781784878221
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46From helpful elves to an enchanting Nutcracker, rediscover the German Christmas tales behind our most iconic festive traditions*A Daily Express Book of the Year*Eine froehliche Weihnachten -- A Merry... -
Shadow Lines: Austrian Literature from Freud to Kafka by Lorna Martens 9780803231863
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.20Intellectual culture in early twentieth-century Austria reached levels of originality and excellence that have rarely been equalled before or since. Shadow Lines examines works by major novelists,... -
Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick, and Wong Kar-Wai by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 9780739121887
Booksplease Price: £53.55Films and Dreams considers the essential link between films and the world of dreams. To discuss dream theory in the context of film studies means moving from the original, clinical context within... -
Blue Land and City Noise: An Expressionist Stroll through Art and Literature by Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £17.88Colourful, emotional, impulsive and modern - these are the qualities which characterise our ideas of German Expressionist painting. It is hard to believe that the works caused a scandal when they... -
The Doctor Robert Icke 9781350382541
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's... -
The Red Vienna Sourcebook by Rob Mcfarland 9781640140677
Booksplease Price: £60.14An encyclopedic selection of original documents from the Austrian capital's pathbreaking, progressive interwar period, translated and with contextualizing introductions and commentaries. The... -
Frau Lou: Nietzsche's Wayward Disciple by Rudolph Binion 9780691618609
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £75.01The rich and fascinating life of Lou Andreas-Salome (1861-1937) has been reconstructed by Professor Binion on a vast documentary basis, and his findings contradict all earlier versions of her life... -
Undertones of Insurrection: Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative Marc Weiner 9781412808408
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the... -
Robert Icke: Works One: Oresteia; Uncle Vanya; Mary Stuart; The Wild Duck; The Doctor by Robert Icke 9781350407299
Booksplease Price: £22.96Robert Icke's thrilling and radical adaptations of some of the great texts of Western theatre have enthralled theatregoers in London, in New York and around the world. This is the first collection of... -
The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker 9780413776099
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.25Financial chicanery and ethical conflict in early twentieth-century classic being revived at the National Theatre Edward's highly principled world is turned upside down when his father reveals that... -
Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture by Katja Garloff 9781501704963
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £79.80Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love-often unrequited or impossible love-to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in... -
Mixed Feelings: Tropes of Love in German Jewish Culture by Katja Garloff 9781501704970
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Since the late eighteenth century, writers and thinkers have used the idea of love-often unrequited or impossible love-to comment on the changing cultural, social, and political position of Jews in...