Wedding Preparations in the Country and Other Stories
| Book | Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Publisher Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Translated by | Ernst Kaiser, Eithne Wilkins, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir |
| Copyright Holder | Schocken Books Inc., Schocken Verlag |
| Cover Artist | Edvard Munch |
| Printed by | Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 1935 |
| Republished | 1949 |
| Copyright | 1949 |
| Copyright | 1953 |
| Republished | 1954 |
| This Edition Published | 1978 |
| Reprinted | 1982 |
| Pages / Font | 190 pages / Linotype Lectura |
| ISBN | 0 14 00.44418 8 |
| Price | U.K. £2.50 / Aust. $4.95 |
| Chapters | Note: Pieces marked † are translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and that marked * by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. Wedding Preparations in the Country* Letter to His Father* Two Dialogues (From a work later destroyed: Description of a Struggle')† 1. Conversation with the Supplicant 2. Conversation with the Drunken Man Meditation† Children on a Country Road Unmasking a Confidence Trickster The Sudden Walk Resolutions Excursion into the Mountains\Bachelor's Ill Luck The Tradesman Absent-minded Window-gazing The Way Home Passers-by On the Tram Clothes Rejection Reflections for Gentlemen Jockeys The Street Window The Wish to be a Red Indian The Trees Unhappiness The Judgement† A Country Doctor: Short Stories† The New Advocate A Country Doctor Up in the Gallery An Old Manuscript Before the Law Jackals and Arabs A Visit to a Mine The Next Village A Message from the Emperor Troubles of a Householder Eleven Sons A Brother's Murder A Dream A Report to the Academy A Hunger Artist: Four Stories† First Sorrow A Little Woman A Fasting Showman Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-folk |
| Notes | Wedding Preparations in the Country (Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem Lande, New York, 1953) and Letter to His Father (Brief an den Vater, New York, 1953) translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins and first published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1954 Copyright 1953 by Schocken Books, Inc. Two Dialogues (Munich, 1909), Meditation (Betrachtung, Leipzig, 1913), The Judgement (Das Urteil, Leipzig, 1919) and A Hunger Artist (Ein Hungerkünstler, Berlin, 1924) translated by Willa and Edwin Muir and first published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg 1949 Copyright 1935 by Schocken Verlag Translation copyright 1949 by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd This selection first published in Penguin Books 1978 Reprinted 1979, 1982 Made and printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk The cover shows a detail from 'Evening (Melancholy)', a woodcut by Edvard Munch, in the Munch-Museet, Oslo |
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