Isbn: 9780804424608 - misused love letters and regula amrain and her youngest son (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Excellent. 8vo, x + 312pp. Hardcover, bound in original orange cloth with black title to spine. In excellent condition. Firm binding and crisp, clean, interior. Very minor rubbing to spine ends. Previous owner's small ink stamp to corner of front endpaper, otherwise fine.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good in Dustjacket. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1974. Frederick Ungar. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0804424608. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock & Anne Fremantle. Introduction by Michael Bullock. 151 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Tim Gaydos. keywords: Europe Switzerland Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Another rewarding visit with people of Seldville, or Seldwyla, the mythical town created by Gottfried Keller, Switzerland's beloved writer. Keller is best known in English-speaking countries for his masterly short novel A VILLAGE ROMEO AND JULIET. In 'The Misused Love Letters' a rather ordinary shopkeeper has pretensions to a literary career; he writes third-rate novels and stories under a nom de plume. To further his literary career he induces his charming wife, Gritli, to exchange with him a series of overblown love letters, which he intends ultimately to publish. In a desperate attempt to keep up with this witless scheme, Gritli inveigles the local schoolmaster into writing her love letters, which she sends on to her husband as her own. Thus is woven a web of deceit and pretense which wrecks the marriage and sets all concerned on unexpected new paths. This charming and, at times, wickedly funny story is told with Keller's unerring eye for the literary snobbishness of his day, and is embellished with the love of nature at her best, so typical of this Swiss writer. 'Regula Amrain and Her Youngest Son' is in many ways an imaginative re-creation of Keller's own relationship with his mother. Frau Amrain is forced to rear her three sons alone. Her youngest, Fritz, unknowingly saves her from yielding to the amorous advances of her overseer, and Frau Amrain, seeing this as a decisive moment, thenceforth devotes her major s energy to the upbringing of her third son. Many of Keller's own ideas on the education of children and the duties of citizens are incorporated into this famous story. The complex psychic strains and ambivalences underlying the relationship between mother and son lend special import to 'Regula Amrain,' which tells more about Keller than any other of his short fiction. inventory #37523. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Translated from the German by Michael Bullock and Anne Fremantle. Introduction by Michael Bullock. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket.