BOLLINQEN
"ERI~
Announcing the third and
final volume in a selection
of the works of
HUGO VON
HOFMANNSTHAL
SELECTED PLAYS AND LIBRETTI
Edited, with an introduction,
by MICHAEL HAMBURGER
Six works have been chosen to display the range of Hofmannsthal's
writings for the theatre: three plays, three libretti; three serious in tone,
three comic. They include the sparkling libretto for Richard Strauss's
Der
Rosenkavalier, an adaptation of Sophocles's Electra, and the somber
tragedy
The
Tower. Complete
contents, with translators:
ELECTRA
(Alfred Schwarz)
THE SALZBURG GREAT
THEATRE OF THE WORLD
(Vernon Watkins)
THE TOWER
(Michael Hamburger)
THE CAVALIER OF THE ROSE
(Christopher Holme)
ARABELLA
(Nora Wydenbruck and
Christopher Middleton)
THE DIFFICULT MAN
(Willa Muir)
With a special note on
The
Tower by T. S. Eliot and textual
notes by the editor. Ixxiv
+
839 pages.
$7.50
Previously published:
POEMS AND VERSE PLAYS
Edited, with an introduction, by
MICHAEL HAMBURGER. A selec·
tion of 23'Iyrics and six verse plays,
mostly written during Hofmanns·
thai's early youth, In the 1B90's.
Complete German texts face the
English. With a preface by T. S.
Eliot, and textual notes. Ixlii
+
562 pages.
$6.00
SELECTED PROSE
Translated from the German by
MARY HOTTINGER and TANIA
&
JAMES STERN. Tales, novellas, es·
says, travel reflections, and the un·
finished novel " Andreas". With an
Introduction by HERMANN BRaCH,
and textual notes. xlvII
+
384
pages.
$4.50
Bollingen Series is published by Bollingen foundation. Distributed by Pantheon Books,
22 East 51st St., New York 22, N. Y. for detailed catalogue, write to Boilingen Series,
140
East 62nd St., New York 21, N. Y.
