Vienna, March 1938. The Nazis are about to seize Austria, and the tottering regime of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg is trying to save the country thr...

A collection of prose fiction written in Austria and Austria-Hungary in the 19th century. Seen as a whole, the fiction of the region began the 19th...

The historian Lonnie Johnson provides in compact form a comprehensive overview of Austria's rich past and present. Each chapter and subchapter appr...

This work, originally published in Mannheim in 1891, is a collection of twenty-six stories illustrating various aspect of Jewish life and culture i...

Karl Emil Franzos (1848-1904), the son of a doctor, a liberal Jew, was born in Czortkow (now Chortkiv) and grew up in Czernowitz (now Chernivsty); ...

Georg Potyka, an Austrian civil servant in the diplomatic service, has written a novel about a fictional colleague, Leopold Navratil. Since boyhood...

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), whose name has been immortalised in the term masochism, is known today predominantly for his novel 'Venus in...

Widowed and newly retired, the turn-of-the-century Austrian civil servant Julius Zihal has left the safe haven of the Tax Office and its orderly, c...

The time for autobiographies has arrived. Interest in authentic life stories seems greater than ever, even greater than well written works of ficti...

Four novellas taken from two cycles of novellas entitled Die Liebe and Das Vermeachtnis Kains.

Text in English & German. This volume contains a bilingual (German-English) edition of poems by the Austrian-Jewish writer Theodor Kramer (1897...

The fifteen essays cover the life and works of the major authors representing the generation who began their literary careers before Word War 2, we...

The purpose of this projected seven-volume series is to help make the major figures of Austrian literature from 1800 to the present accessible to a...

This portrayal of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) is based on published and unpublished sources. Like many women novelists of her time -- pa...

This book depicts the life of the Austrian physicist Marietta Blau (1894-1970). She was considered extraordinarily gifted by Albert Einstein and wa...

Christine Lavant (1915-1973), one of Austria's most famous yet obscure 20th century poets, wrote these memoirs during a voluntary six-week stay in ...

The sixteen articles compiled here are devoted to individual prose works published after 1970 that reflect the "Austrian tradition" within the fiel...

Volume II continues the goal of introducing readers to significant works of modern Austrian prose within the broader field of German-language liter...

The two stories contained in this edition -- 'Love at First Sight: A Recollection' and 'History of a Promise' -- reveal Erich Hackl's unique and lu...

This second volume of Austrian Folk Plays gives further evidence of the popularity of this form among contemporary writers. In the late nineteenth ...

Adolf Loos (1870-1933) is recognised today as one of the great masters of modern architecture. He did not leave a unified oeuvre but articles scatt...

Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide rang...

The attractiveness of Austria has long made it into a desirable travel destination for European and American visitors. People came to enjoy the bea...

In the first half of the twentieth century, foreign visitors were witnesses to Austria's dramatic history. Political and social issues often oversh...