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Esta edición recoge dos ciclos de escenas, La ronda y Anatol, y una selección de ensayos y aforismos. La ronda (1903) es un ciclo de escenas dramáticas, breves y rápidas que, concebidas como un corro o danza con cambio de pareja, se ejecutan al ritmo del sexo. En Anatol, ciclo de escenas aparecidas entre 1889 y 1892, el autor da vida a una figura que es el trasunto literario de su propia personalidad y hace del personaje el epónimo de una época en la que abunda el "tipo de hombre" de mundo. Los Ensayos y aforismos son una fecunda reflexión sobre las situaciones, experiencias y problemas que la vida le fue deparando.

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El doctor Fridolin deambula de noche por la ciudad tras una discusión conyugal hasta que se entera de la celebración de una mascarada. Allí, una misteriosa mujer le advierte de que debe marcharse de inmediato, pero Fridolin está decidido a quedarse, fascinado como está por el desarrollo de una orgía desenfrenada. A lo largo de la noche se enfrentará a un torbellino de sexo, peligro, fantasía e ilusión que pondrá severamente a prueba su matrimonio y a sí mismo.El relato de Arthur Schnitzler vio la luz en 1926 y hoy es uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura. Jakob Hinrichs, que ha realizado la primera adaptación de la obra como novela gráfica, recrea la narración con unos trazos de rebosante y honda fantasía. Fridolin es llevado a un poderoso universo onírico poblado de personajes estrafalarios y grotescos. La lectura de esta novela gráfica soñada constituye un verdadero placer visual. El texto íntegro original de Schnitzler está contenido al final del presente volumen.

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Winner of the Newbery Honor: the delightful tale of a wandering good samaritan dog, by the author of Shrek! Dominic has decided it is time for a change. So he packs up his hats and his piccolo, and sets off into the unknown. But no sooner does he feel the air on his snout and the grass beneath his paws, than disaster strikes: he encounters the dreaded Doomsday Gang. But Dominic is not one to complain - and nor is he one to lose a fight. As legend of his victory over the villains spreads, more and more creatures turn to him for help: a 158-year-old turtle, a heartbroken wild boar, and a family of grateful geese all encounter Dominic's heroism and generosity. But his trials are far from over: the Doomsday Gang is alive and kicking, and how can one young dog face a mob of hooligans alone? "Steig's books are like perfect smooth stones, complete in themselves, with no seams to be found... he always has the skill to bring together what seems to be a lot of spur-of-the-moment choices and make them into stories that land so perfectly and satisfyingly and feel so inevitable in their endings" - Jon Klassen, author of This Is Not My Hat

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This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and baffling novella. Dream Story tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge.

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These artful new translations of nine of Schnitzler's most important stories and novellas reinforce the Viennese author's remarkable achievement.

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.Like his Austrian contemporary Sigmund Freud, the doctor and writer Arthur Schnitzlerwas a bold pioneer in exploring the dark tangled roots of human consciousness. His novella Dream Story tells the tale of a young married man who, after a discussion with his wife about their fantasises, experiences an eery reverie through Vienna's underbelly.

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