Motley Stones

by Adalbert Stifter

Book Overview

The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas.

For Kafka he was "my fat brother"; Thomas Mann called him "one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature." Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of "beetles and buttercups," the nineteenth-century Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter can now be seen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681375206
• ISBN13: 9781681375205
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"