Chicago
The University of Chit;ago Press, Chicago, Illinois 60697
Selected Writings of
E. T. A.
HOFFMANN
Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction
by
Leonard
J.
Kent and Elizabeth C. Knight
·With a Foreword
by
Rene Wellek
And with Illustrations
by
Jacob Landau
The works of Hoffmann included in this edition-fresh translations of seven stories and the
novel
Kater Murr-remarkably
convey his complex vision of humanity, of man, especially the
artist, engaged in an archetypal struggle to establish identity in a hostile, absurd, and surprisingly
modern world. Equally remarkable are Jacob Landau's twenty illustrations, beautifully
reproduced in color. The translators have not based their selection exclusively on the literary
merit of the works, but also upon special characteristics, and upon Hoffmann's influence on
other authors. This influence may have been considerable, for the forms and the themes which
fascinated him all anticipate the twentieth century.
1969 LC:73-88790 768
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$17.50 ($20.00
after January
1, 1970)
NIRRATION
6erlrude Siein
With an Introduction
by
Thornton Wilder
On her first and last return trip to America in
1935,
Gertrude Stein toured the country
giving lectures which Thornton Wilder hails
as "models of artistic form," but which
display her usual indifference to punctuation.
Four of these lectures, delivered in Chicago,
are presented in
Narration.
Originally
published in a signed, limited edition, the
book has now been reprinted as one of The
University of Chicago Press's handsomely
bound and slip-cased Collector's Editions.
1969
Slipcased 72 pages
$7.50
The
Elhioplan
war,
1935·1941
Angelo Del Boca
Translated
by
P. D. Cummins
The first full-scale history of the Ethiopian
War. Del Boca has collected all available
material from Italian, British, French, and
American scholars, journalists, politicians,
and military men and compared official
reports with accounts by those eyewitnesses
who observed the actual invasion and
conquest. In addition, he has interviewed
important Ethiopians and Italians and
consulted the popular literature of the
1930'.
to enrich his social and military history of
the war.
1969 LC:71-79562
288 pages
$7.95
