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MODERN AUTHORS' SERIES
Under this title appear from time to time short stories and dramas, chiefly translations from the works of modern European authors, each containing from 32 to 64 pages. Printed in large, clear type and tastefully bound in gray boards with paper label. Price of each volume, 2Sc. net. By mail, 29c. Five Volumes now Ready:
By LEONIDAS ANDREIYEFF
Translated from the Russian. Second Edition
An unusual short story, that reads like a poem in prose, by the leading exponent of the new Russian school of novelists
By AUGUST STRINDBERG
Translated from the Swedish
An example of Strindberg's power as analyst of human nature. A one-act play in which the dramatist lays bare the weakness of a human soul
"A Red Flower"
By VSEVOLOD GARSHIN
A powerful short story by one of Russia's popular authors, unknown as yet to the English-speaking public
"The Grisley Suitor"
By FRANK WEDEKIND
Author of "THE AWAKENING OF SPRING." etc.
Translated from the German
An excellent story of the De-Maupassant type
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
"Rabbi Ezra." "The Victim"
Two Sketches Characteristic of the Pen of this Noted German Author
OTHER VOLUMES IN PREPARATION
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A DILEMMA
A STORY OF MENTAL PERPLEXITY
By LEONIDAS ANDREIYEFF
Translated from the Russian by John Cournos
'Cloth, 75 Cents net. Postage, 7 Cents'
A remarkable analysis of mental subtleties as experienced by a man who is uncertain as to whether or not he is insane. A story that is Poe-like in its intensity and full of grim humor.
One of the most interesting literary studies of crime since Dostoiefifsky's "Crime and Punishment."—Chicago Evening Post.
A grim and powerful study by that marvelous Russian, Leonidas Andreiyeff.—The Smart Set.
Leonidas Andreiyeflf is a writer who bites deep into life. In him Slavic talent for introspection is remarkably developed. Poetic, powerfully imaginative, master of stark simplicity, he has written stories stamped with the seal of genius. Andreiyeff is an O. Henry, plus the divine fire,— Boston Daily Advertiser.
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The Awakening of Spring
A TRAGEDY OF CHILDHOOD BY
FRANK WEDEKIND
A drama dealing with the sex question in its relationship to the education of children
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Here is a play which on its production caused a sensation in Germany, and can without exaggeration be described as remarkable. These studies of adolescence are as impressive as they are unique.—The Athenaeum, London.
The dialogue is extraordinarily fresh and actual, and the short, varying glimpses that place the characters and the situation before you are vivid as life itself. The book is not one to be read lightly nor lightly to be set aside. It has a message that may well be learned here as elsewhere, and it witnesses to a high purpose in its author and to a brave spirit.—New York Times Saturday Review.
In "The Awakening of 'Spring" we have German realism at its boldest. Nearly all the characters of the play are children, and its action revolves about that groping for knowledge, particularly upon certain forbidden subjects, which comes with end of childhood.
It must be said of Wedekind that he is nowhere gross. His object in writing the play was to arouse German parents just as Edward Bok is trying to arouse the mothers of America, and he has succeeded. He is one of the most accomplished of the younger Germans. His work shows profound thought.—The Sun, Baltimore.
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SWANWHITE
A FAIRY DRAMA
By AUGUST STRINDBERG
Translated by Francis J. Ziegler
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A Poetic Idyl, which is charming in its sweet purity, delightful in iii optimism, elusive in its complete symbolism, but wholesome in its message that pure love can conquer evil.
So out of the cold North, out of the mouth of the world's most terrible misogynists, comes a strange message one which is as sweet as it is unexpected. And August Strindberg, the enemy of love, sings that pure love is all powerful and all-conquering.—SPRINGFIELD, MASS., REPUBLICAN.
It is worth while to have all of the plays of such a great dramatist in our English tongue. Since the death of Ibsen he is the chief of the Scandinavians. . . The publishers deserve thanks and support for their enterprise. There has long existed a need for just such an edition of contemporary foreign plays. . . ."— THE SUN, Baltimore.
" An idyllic play, filled with romantic machinery of the Northern fairy tales and legends, ... It belongs to a class by itself. . . ."—PHILADELPHIA RECORD.
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The Creditor
Fordringsagare
A Psychological Study of the Divorce Question by the Swedish Master
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Author of "Froken Julie," "Swanwhite," "Father," "Motherlove," etc.
Translated from the Swedish by Francis J. Ziegler
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Amid that remarkable group of one-act plays, which embodies August Strindberg's maturest work as a playwright, the tragic comedy "Fordringsagare" (The Creditor), occupies a prominent place.
"Fordringsagare" was produced for the first time in 1889, when it was given at Copenhagen as a substitute for "Froken Julie," the performance of which was forbidden by the censor. Four years later Berlin audiences made its acquaintance, since when it has remained the most popular of Strindberg's plays in Germany.
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The Woman and the Fiddler
A PLAY IN THREE ACTS BY
ARNE NORREVANG
Translated from the Norwegian by
MRS. HERMAN SANDBY
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This play is based upon one of the legends of the fiddlers who used to go about from valley to valley, playing for the peasants at their festivities.
Enthralled by the power of the fiddler, we are drawn up the mountains. We breathe the rarefied atmosphere of the highest peaks, and feel the strange, penetrating light of the midsummer night, the light which is neither of day nor night, but seems to come from another world "and force itself beyond our heavy eyelids!" It is the moment when the "great red sun of night stands still, while mortals dream!"
We see the vision ; we seem to tread upon the clouds; we are under the spell of the enchantment! The story is one of love and renunciation. The "great moment" has to be paid for! She who cannot live within her mother's white dwelling has to die! "She has gone too long upon the mountains with the sight of the glistening snow in her eyes." She enters the land of mist!
Since "Peer Gynt" we have hardly had any lyric drama from Norway so full of the poetry and mysticism of the mountains, as this work by the promising young author, Arne Norrevang.
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