Brigitta, with Abdias, Limestone & the Forest Path — Adalbert Stifter

Richly evocative and brushed with mystery...a wonderful new translation." - Publishers Weekly. "A writer who portrayed the development of people, how they overcome antagonistic forces of family and nature and very often have to pay a great price until a certain serenity in life can be achieved, if at all...Edited very carefully...a pleasure to read." - Choice. "A chance to sample the works of a writer whom Thomas Mann once described as `one of the most remarkable, profound, secretly bold and strangely exciting story-tellers in world literature'. The selection itself is on the whole excellent." - TLS. "The new translation...will make the text accessible to those Women's Studies courses that discuss portrayals of gender." - New German Studies.