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Their Pavel

By: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Based on a true incident, 'Their Pavel' is a 19th century novel of life in a still-feudal Moravian village. It explores the parallel fates of the children of a hanged murderer and thief - one adopted on a whim by an aging baroness, one abandoned to the uncertain mercy of the village.

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Camden House

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1571133909

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9781571133908

Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics)

By: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics)

By: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Austrian writer Baroness (Freifrau) Marie von Ebner Eschenbach (1830-1916) was one of the foremost novelists in the German tongue, and one of the best short-story writers in the world. The Austrian aristocracy with their Slavo-German dependents in the Moravian villages constitute the world of her fiction. Country and city are her theatres, noble and peasant keep the balance. All forms of the short-story are at her command: letters, diaries, dialogues, and that most difficult of all forms, the story within a story. --- Where can be found a more concrete and genial characterization of the leading political lords and ladies, more lifelike portraits of officialdom and of the much abused peasantry than in her historic tale "The District Doctor" (1883), which has as its background the bloody peasant uprisings in Galicia in 1846? Where do we find human sympathy ethically and artistically more refined than in her little masterpiece "Krambambuli" (1883), the story of a dog with spotless pedigree who, like Rudiger in the Nibelungen, perishes in the vain attempt to serve two masters? --- Of the qualities that make up a great writer she has the deep and high truth of substance. She does not view the world in the rosy light of the idyll. She never seeks to avoid the ugly. But more, she puts a high moral interpretation on human life. Her ethics is proof against all egotism and will bear comparison with that of the great moralists, ancient and modern.

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122

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Mondial

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1595691049

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9781595691040

Beyond the World of Men

Women’s Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle

By: Božena Benešová,Lila Bubelová,Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach,Vladimíra Jedličková,Růžena Jesenská,Anna Lauermannová-Mikschová,Marie Majerová,Helena Malířová,Lída Merlínová,Teréza Nováková,Tereza Svatová,Růžena Svobodová,Anna Maria Tilschová,Božena Viková-Kunětická

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Beyond the World of Men

Women’s Fiction at the Czech Fin de Siècle

This collection opens a window into the largely unknown world of Czech women’s writing in the fin de siècle. With stories of women compelled to marry, women driven to suicide, of seduction, solitude, and of the breakup of a lesbian affair, a broad spectrum of women’s lives in that era is represented. The works draw in city and country, high society and more humble backgrounds, as well as including a couple of translations from German, reminding us that Czech literature is the common inheritance of all the writers who lived and worked in Bohemia and Moravia. Linked together by the injustice of patriarchal society, the sheer variety of stories here is a testament to the richness and depth of these women’s struggles, thought and experience.

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367

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Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

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8024656175

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9788024656175

Beyond Atonement

By: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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Beyond Atonement

By: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

19th-century novel of adultery and remorse. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) was celebrated even in her own lifetime as Austria's foremost nineteenth-century woman writer.Beyond Atonement (Unsühnbar, 1889), loosely based on an actual event in a high-class Austrian family, is a novel about adultery: Maria marries Hermann Dornach, though she is in love with Felix Tessin; two years later, she commits adultery with Tessin, conceiving a child whom she alone knows to be illegitimate; when her husband and their legitimate son die in an accident, she reveals her infidelity. Her unforgiving family and her own remorse set Maria apart from the protagonists of other nineteenth-century novels of adultery such as Goethe's Elective Affinities and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Beyond Atonement is a companion piece to Ebner's best-known tale of village life, Their Pavel (Das Gemeindekind), also published by Camden House. Dr VANESSA VAN ORNAM is a translator for the city government of Berlin.

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160

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Camden House

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1571131132

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9781571131133

Their Pavel

By: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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By: Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

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The Art of Revolution

Kurt Eisner's Agitprop

By: Albert E. Gurganus,Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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The Art of Revolution

Kurt Eisner's Agitprop

By: Albert E. Gurganus,Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The first major study of the neglected fiction works of the well-known revolutionary politician Kurt Eisner.

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170

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Boydell & Brewer

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0938100203

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9780938100201

Book's by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Their Pavel

Their Pavel

Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics)

Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics)

Beyond the World of Men

Beyond the World of Men

Beyond Atonement

Beyond Atonement

Their Pavel

Their Pavel

The Art of Revolution

The Art of Revolution

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