Title: Bachelors
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.
Subjects: Translations into English, German Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author)
People: Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)