About this title: This book features the plays - "Flirtations", "Round Dance", "The Green Cockatoo", "The Last Masks", "Countess Mizzi", "The Vast Domain", "Professor Bernhardi". The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. "Round Dance", written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. The other plays in this collection explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, always with a ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press; World's Classics Ser., Oxford and New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780192804594ISBN:0192804596
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xxx, 406 pp., biblio.; 20 cm. Translated from the German. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. "The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. Here is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best-known plays in new English translations that are fluent and expressive and ideal for reading, study, or performance. Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in ... read more
Description: Good. Publishers Overstock. A Good copy with a Remainder Mark and wear to the covers and the extremities. Buy with confidence from an Independent Bookstore where the owners, a husband and wife team, have over 30 years of combined bookselling experience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2004-09-09
ISBN-13:9780192804594ISBN:0192804596
Description: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library. Lib stamps to first endpaper. 8vo. 406pp. Paperback. Clear plastic sleeve. Light shelf marking to fore-edges. Pages very good. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199552443ISBN:0199552444
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 448 pages. This is a unique collection of seven of schnitzler's best known plays in a new english translation. they explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century viennese decadence. the introduction explores the plays in relation to schnitzler's life, to the culture of late twentieth-century vienna, and to modernism in general. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199552443ISBN:0199552444
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 196x129 mm. (448) this is a unique collection of seven of schnitzler's best known plays in a new english translation. they explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century viennese decadence. the introduction explores the plays in relation to schnitzler's life, to the culture of late twentieth-century vienna, and to modernism in general. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780192804594ISBN:0192804596
Description: Good. --All NEW items are exactly as provided by the publisher. All USED items are in Good condition or better, and copies may contain store stickers, highlighting, etc from normal use by previous owner(s). One-time use supplements (e.g., access codes, tear-out flash cards, reference cards, etc) provided with new copies are NOT guaranteed. --Professional booksellers: inquiries always welcome. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Carcanet New Press, Manchester
Date Published: 1982
Description: G+/NONE. From outside book looks like new--pristine even with vivid-colored boards and gold backstrip-only lettering, moderate to heavy toning/darkenin g to pages, highlighting seeming to affect pages 84-106 only.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 222 pages; Plays, red/very fat gold, partcat tem. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780192804594ISBN:0192804596
Description: 192804596. Brand New; Oxford World's Classics; 1.17 x 7.7 x 5.06 Inches; 448 pages; The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de si`ecle Viennese decadence. Here is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best-known plays in new En. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780199552443ISBN:0199552444
Description: This is a unique collection of seven of Schnitzler's best known plays in a new English translation. They explore love, sexuality, and death in various guises, against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century Viennese decadence. The introduction explores th... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2004-09-09
ISBN-13:9780192804594ISBN:0192804596
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