Austrian fiction -- Translations into English
PAGE CANT AND HUMBUG. A story of English selfishness and American thriftiness. 5 WIFE VERSUS NATIVE LAND. This story shows how a man may quit smoking for spite, but not for love. 38 ALI HADJI EFFENDI. The adventures of a wandering fanatic of Islam. 59 THE CROSS AT THE CORNER....
PAGE CANT AND HUMBUG. A story of English selfishness and American thriftiness. 5 WIFE VERSUS NATIVE LAND. This story shows how a man may quit smoking for spite, but not for love...
2. Part 2“Oh,” murmured a slender girl with fair hair and pale blue eyes, the happy bride of a fortnight, “I am firmly convinced that love is a stronger feeling than patriotism, nay, tha...
3. Part 3He had drawn his girdle closer, wound his turban anew, taken in his hand the knotted staff which had been his companion from Küenlün to the Blocksberg, and set forth again on hi...
4. Part 4“The farther he progressed toward recovery, the more his depression increased; this, and the numerous sittings, aroused Herr von F.’s suspicions and one day he entered unexpecte...
5. Part 5When we have once reached this point what a tragic picture unrolls before our eyes! When the stepmother married she made herself the priestess, who was to erect a new statue in...
6. Part 6I made his acquaintance in London, in the spring of the year 1874. He had apparently given himself up completely to the swelling flood-tide of the “season,” and let it bear him...
7. Part 7“I shuddered and lay still. But not long. The light of the large, to me, fearfully brilliant moon, the plashing of the water below, the wind blowing softly, then the deathlike s...