Tales of Old Vienna and Other Prose By Adalbert Stifte, Edited by Alexander Stillmark

The Condor; The Ancient Seal; Tourmaline; Granite: Confidence; Prose Poem (from Indian summer); The Eclipse of the Sun in 1842; My Life: An Autobiographical Sketch; Preface to Colored Stones. Alexander Stillmark is Emeritus Reader in German at University College London. A comparative literary scholar and a leading specialist in Austrian Studies, he has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century topics. His translation both from and into German include: Georg Trakl, Poems and Prose (London 2001; Evanston Illinois 2005); Gedichte in Prosa Von der Romantik bis zur Jahrhundertwende (Frankfurt am Main, 2013); and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, An Impossible Man (Cambridge, 2016).