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The Poet and the Countess: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's ...

The Poet and the Countess: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's ...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The English translation of the correspondence between the turn-of-the-century Austrian poet and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Countess Ottonie Degenfeld.
A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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New essays by leading scholars re-examining major aspects of the work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the great Austrian poet and dramatist.
The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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 ...
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays ...

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Idea: Selected Essays ...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

This volume provides translations of essays that deal with the Austrian idea and with the distinctive position of German-speaking Austrians between German nationalism and peoples to the East, whether in the Habsburg Monarchy or beyond it, ...
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 'An Impossible Man':

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 'An Impossible Man':

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Alison Finch General Editor Editorial Board Professor Malcolm Cook (French) Professor Alison Finch (French) Professor Ritchie Robertson (Germanic) Dr Mark Davie (Italian) Dr Stephen Parkinson (Portuguese) Professor David Gillespie ...
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: The Theaters of Consciousness

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal: The Theaters of Consciousness

Benjamin Bennett

Professor Bennett examines Hofmannsthal's work in the context of literary theory and the history of philosophy, referring especially to Nietzsche, German Idealism and the poetics of German Classicism.
The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings

The Lord Chandos Letter: And Other Writings

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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 ...
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European ...

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European ...

Hermann Broch

Hermann Broch (1886-1951) is remembered among English-speaking readers for his novels The Sleepwalkers and The Death of Virgil, and among German-speaking readers for his novels as well as his works on moral and political philosophy, his ...
Victor Hugo and His Times

Victor Hugo and His Times

Alfred Barbou

This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages, and is generally considered to be the best life of Victor Hugo.
The Works of Victor Hugo

The Works of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

This collection includes: The History of a Crime The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables The Man Who Laughs The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Napoleon the Little
Almanach der österreichischen Kriegsmarine

Almanach der österreichischen Kriegsmarine

Österreich Kriegsmarine

Anton Burgstaller. Hugo Pogatschnigg. Willibald Hauke. Emerich Graf Festetits. Adolf Schwachhofer. Miscislaus Ritter von Winicki. Aspad von Szent-Ivany. Anton Nikolich. Vinzenz Dollenz. Wenzel Zrust. Martin v- Marcovich. Johann Nowotny.
Granaten und Balladen: bosnisches Mosaik

Granaten und Balladen: bosnisches Mosaik

Michael Zeller

Heidi Wiese Unter den Straßen von Paris Geschichte und Geschichten von Pariser Metro-Stationen Streifzüge durch die französische Geschichte und Kultur - nach Saint-Germain-des-Pres, zu Napoleons Generälen, Victor Hugo, Louise ...
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Victor Hugo

Inhis 1859 preface, Hugo had indicated that The Legendof tke Ages was to be completed by two other poems: The End of Satan, which was to be the " dénouement" of the Legend, and God, which was to be its "crown." Both poems were ...
A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia

A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia

John Andrew Frey

This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his life and literature. The volume begins with a biography that places Hugo within the context of 19th-century France.
Les misérables

Les misérables

Victor Hugo

This expansive French tale of injustice and social unrest is widely considered to be writer Victor Hugo's masterpiece.
Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

Victor Brombert

Analyzes the major themes and motifs in Hugo's novels, describes his poetic and moral vision, and assesses his accomplishments as a writer
Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to ...

Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to ...

William VanderWolk

This book, examining these two works and the nonfictional Napoleon le petit, argues that through such texts Hugo can be seen as an important historian of his time, a polemicist and prophet whose version of past events and vision of the ...
Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

Volume Nineteen of The Works of Victor Hugo features "William Shakespeare."
Victor Hugo: A Biography

Victor Hugo: A Biography

Graham Robb

Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, ...
The Essential Victor Hugo

The Essential Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Mis--eacute--;rables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment.
Live Television Drama, 1946-1951

Live Television Drama, 1946-1951

William Hawes

... dentist who still hated Hugo (Hume Cronyn), the fellow who stole his girl. Bi› plots his revenge when Hugo has a toothache during a visit to. Marc Daniels directed Fay Bainter in “Night Must Fall,” for Ford Theater, on CBS-TV, ¡9 December ...
Advanced Linear Algebra

Advanced Linear Algebra

Hugo Woerdeman

... by Mihály Bakonyi and Hugo J. Woerdeman. Indeed, we have 1·0+2·6+3·9+4·1 +5·1+6·2+7·8+8·8+9·9+10·8 = rem(341|11) = 0. Check that the 10-digit ISBN number 3034806388 has a correct check digit. Exercise 1.5.23 A not so secure way ...
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

Juliette Drouet

The affair began probably in 1844 with a woman named Leonie Biard (nee d' Aunet)70 who was married to an academic and fashionable painter of about the same age as Hugo. She had moved into the luxurious residence of the wealthy ...
Musik-Lexikon: Erster Band

Musik-Lexikon: Erster Band

Hugo Riemann

Z. die Namen: St. Wendling, P. Quasdorf, J. Klenge, Dr. Paul Menge, Rico Hofmann, Fr. von Bose, H. Sitt, 2. Ruthardt, G. Schreck, Arn. Schering, 2. Seid, Max Reger, Karl Straube, C. Hense, M. Schwede e, Frau E. Baumann, Frau M. edmond, ...
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Belial Johannes von Tepl Gerhard Hahn, ,Der Ackermann aus Böhmen' des J' v.T '. Darmst. '84. [Rez. von Maurice Walshe: Anzeiger 98 ('87) 129/32; von Evelyn Schera- bon Firchow: GN 18 ('87) 24/25; von Birgit Stolt: Rhetorik 6 ('87) 195/97;  ...
George Eliot and Europe

George Eliot and Europe

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Nonetheless, romantic is as romantic does. The character's name, of course, is Sir Hugo. 1 Morris Greenhut and Edgar W. Hirshberg have examined Lewes's articles n Hugo as indications of his critical practice: Morris Greenhut, 'George Henry ...
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

Juliette Drouet

The anonymous Mémoires de Madame Ludovica (Douglas Siler, ed., Flaubert et Louise Pradier: Le Texte intégral des ... The most complete information on Laure Krafft is to be found in Jean Savant, La Vie sentimentale de Victor Hugo, ...

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