These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.

"Simply masterful...These clear, uncluttered translations are dreamlike." - The Review of Higher Education

"Startlingly...life's universal themes are all here: the craving for erotic fulfillment, the fragility of love, the yearning for wealth, and the abruptness of death...these stories are rock-solid." - Publishers Weekly

"One of the most distinctive and compelling voices of the early modernist movement is heard again in this elegant collection of nine urbane, perversely comic, deeply disturbing stories." - Kirkus

"Margret Schaefer's fresh translation of nine stories and novellas brings most back into print for the first time in decades." - The Dallas Morning News