Bachelors
Subtitle: stories and novellas
By: Arthur Schnitzler ; selected and translated from the German by Margret Schaefer
Contributors: Schaefer, Margret
Publisher: I.R. Dee
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781566636117
Subjects: Translations into English
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Four gloomy tales of male vanity and self-deception by Viennese author Schnitzler. "The Murderer," the first and shortest tale, concerns a comfortable Viennese lawyer who lives by himself and who truly desires a wife and companion, but can't bear the thought of being emotionally restricted. He abandons her to run off with a tart whose passion drives him, in turn, to despair and worse, before returning to Vienna a year later for a shocking encounter with his past love.
Table of contents: title: The murderer; title: Casanova's homecoming; title: Lieutenant Gustl; title: Doctor Graesler.