Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier inaugurated The Metropolitan Classics Library, a series of books honoring the one-hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera, and brought to its readers a greater understanding of opera as literature. The story was specially adapted for this volume by novelist Anthony Burgess. Included is the complete libretto in German and in English, and a wealth of illustrations, including photos from the Metropolitan Opera's production that was concurrent with this book (1982)

Der Rosenkavalier

Literature & Fiction

RICHARD STRAUSS

hugo-von-hofmannsthal

Literary

Little,Brown

Six pieces--three plays, three libretti, three serious works, three comic--are included here to display the range of Hofmannsthal's writings for the theater: The Cavalier of the Rose, Electra, The Salzburg Great Theatre of the World, Arabella, The Difficult Man, and The Tower. T. S. Eliot has contributed a brief note on The Tower.

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: Selected Plays and Libretti

Dramas & Plays

Princeton University Press

The Lyrical Poems of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Lyrical Poems of Hugo Von HofmannsthalOf my own translations Of Mutability, Travel Song and Interdependence appeared in The German Classics, vol. XVII, and are here republished by the courtesy of the proprietors, the German Publication Society. The Introduction has been greatly expanded from an article in the New York Nation which contained translations of The Two, A Dream of the Higher Magic and the third of the Three Little Songs. They are reproduced here by the courtesy of the proprietors of The Nation. Severalother poems, accepted by Poet Lo're, are included by the kind permission of the publishers. The entire volume is brought out by the kind permission of Herr von Hof mannsthal through his publishers, the Insel Verlag, Leipsic.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Poetry

Forgotten Books

Hugo von Hoffmannsthal made his mark as a poet, as a playwright, and as the librettist for Richard Strauss’s greatest operas, but he was no less accomplished as a writer of short, strangely evocative prose works. The atmospheric stories and sketches collected here—fin-de-siècle fairy tales from the Vienna of Klimt and Freud, a number of them never before translated into English—propel the reader into a shadowy world of uncanny fates and secret desires. An aristocrat from Paris in the plague years shares a single night of passion with an unknown woman; a cavalry sergeant meets his double on the battlefield; an orphaned man withdraws from the world with his four servants, each of whom has a mysterious power over his destiny. The most influential of all of Hofmannsthal's writings is the title story, a fictional letter to the English philosopher Francis Bacon in which Lord Chandos explains why he is no longer able to write. The "Letter" not only symbolized Hofmannsthal's own turn away from poetry, it captured the psychological crisis of faith and language which was to define the twentieth century.

The Lord Chandos Letter

JOHN BANVILLE

Joel Rotenberg

United States

NYRB Classics

A mysterious novel of violence and intrigue from one of Austria’s greatest men of letters

Andreas (Pushkin Collection)

Classics

Pushkin Press

Prosa III

S.Fischer Verlag

Reitergeschichte

Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Das Erzählerische Werk

Fischer

Insel Bücherei, Nr.28, Der Tor und der Tod (German Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Insel, Frankfurt

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