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Elektra: Tragic Opera in one Act

STRAUSS, Richard

Hofmannsthal, Hugo Von

History

Franklin Classics

This edition provides the original German text of Hofmannsthal: Der Tor und der Tod, with an extensive English introduction.

Hofmannsthal: Der Tor und der Tod (German Texts)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Bristol Classical Press

The description for this book, Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: Selected Works, Volume 1: Selected Prose, will be forthcoming.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: Selected Works, Volume 1: Selected Prose (Selected Writings of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

Hugo von Hofmannsthal is one of the modern era's most important writers, but his fame as Richard Strauss's pioneering collaborator on such operas as Der Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten has obscured his other remarkable writings: his precocious lyric poetry, inventive short fiction, keen essays, and visionary plays. The Whole Difference, which includes new translations as well as classic ones long out of print, is a fresh introduction to the enormous range of this extraordinary artist, and the most comprehensive collection of Hofmannsthal's writings in English.
 Selected and edited by the poet and librettist J. D. McClatchy, this collection includes early lyric poems; short prose works, including "The Tale of Night Six Hundred and Seventy-Two," "A Tale of the Cavalry," and the famous "Letter of Lord Chandos"; two full-length plays, The Difficult Man and The Tower; as well as the first act of The Cavalier of the Rose. From the glittering salons of imperial Vienna to the bloodied ruins of Europe after the Great War, the landscape of Hofmannsthal's world stretches across the extremes of experience. This collection reflects those extremes, including both the sparkling social comedy of "the difficult man" Hans Karl, so sensitive that he cannot choose between the two women he loves, and the haunting fictional letter to Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he can no longer write. Complete with an introduction by McClatchy, this collection reveals an artist whose unusual subtlety and depth will enthrall readers.

The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Since World War II, Hugo von Hofmannsthal has regained his place as a classic of modern European literature. The translations collected here-Death and the Fool, Electra, and The Tower-represent different periods and interests in his career as a dramatist. Yet, as the critical introduction on Hofmannsthal's tragic theater indicates, all three plays, written in different theatrical idioms, reveal a unified and developing conception of man's estate in the modern world. 
 Hofmannsthal rejected the current fashions of the modern stage but was nonetheless a keen observer of his time. His deliberate indebtedness to the great theaters of the past allowed him to enlarge the scope of his own dramaturgy and to use a more articulate language than that afforded by the conventions of the modern realistic theater. 
 This book includes the 1927 theater version of Hofmannsthal's last great work, The Tower, available for the first time in English translation.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: Three Plays (Title Not in Series)

Dramas & Plays

Wayne State University Press

Book by Hofmannsthal, Hugo Von, Strauss, Richard

A Working Friendship the Correspondence Between Richard Strauss and Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Vienna House

The Lord Chandos Letter

Short Stories & Anthologies

Marlboro Pr

The name of Rainer Maria Rilke is familiar to many English readers, and that of Georg Trakl only somewhat less so. But the age during which these two poets lived was one marked by many other worthy poets in the German language. This book, then, seeks to give these other figures, several of them women, the wider audience they deserve, while also showcasing their own—as well as Rilke’s and Trakl’s, keen and sensitive responses to nature throughout the seasons of the year.Other poets featured include Paul Boldt, Theodor Däubler, Max Dauthendey, Paula Dehmel, Richard Dehmel, Felix Dörmann, Stefan George, Georg Heym, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Friederike Kempner, Hedwig Lachmann, Detlev von Liliencron, Ernst Wilhelm Lotz, Emerenz Meier, Clara Müller-Jahnke, Alfons Petzold, Gustav Renner, Joachim Ringelnatz, Anna Ritter, Heinrich Seidel, Ernst Stadler, Josef Weinheber, Maria Luise Weissmann, and Paul Zech.

Songs for the Seasons: Poems of Rilke and His Age (Neglected Voices)

RILKE, RAINER MARIA

Trakl, Georg

Heym, Georg

George et al, Stefan

Literary

Cedar Springs Books

The Play Of Everyman (1917)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Sterling, George

Ordynski, Richard

Kessinger Publishing

As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)

Der Rosenkavalier, Komodie Fur Musik (German Edition)

Europe

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