| Author: Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900.
Title: Dilemmas: / Ernest Dowson ; [die autorisierte Übertragung dieses Buches ist von F. P. Greve besorgt ; den künstlerischen Schmuck zeichnete Walter Tiemann ; gedruckt wurde dasselbe bei Poeschel & Trepte zu Leipzig in einer Auflage von 1100 Exemplaren, die handschriftlich numeriert sind, davon dieses No. 716]. --
Published: Leipzig : Insel, 1903.
Description: 128 p. ; 19 cm.
Contents:
Das Tagebuch eines erfolgreichen Mannes. --
Ein Gewissensfall. --
Eine Orchestervioline. --
Erinnerungen eines Egoisten. --
Das Gesetz der Begrenzung.
Translation of Dilemmas, stories and studies in sentiment, London., Elkin Mathews, 1895, [viii], 139.p. - (The Diary of a Successful Man - A Case of Conscience - An Orchestral Violin - Souvenirs of an Egoist - The Statute of Limitations). -- A copy of the orig. 1895 book is offered for ca. E2,400 by London Bookseller Peter Ellis [zvab, Nov. 2021.
Arthur Symons says:
" ... He wrote two novels in collaboration with Mr. Arthur Moore: "A Comedy of Masks," in 1893, and "Adrian Rome," in 1899, both done under the influence of Mr. Henry James, both interesting because they were personal studies, and studies of known surroundings, rather than for their actual value as novels.
A volume of "Stories and Studies in Sentiment," called "Dilemmas," in which the influence of Mr. Wedmore was felt in addition to the influence of Mr. James, appeared in 1895.
Several other short stories, among his best work in prose, have not yet been reprinted from the Savoy.
Some translations from the French, done as hack-work, need not be mentioned here, though they were never without some traces of his peculiar quality of charm in language. The short stories were indeed rather "studies in sentiment" than stories; studies of singular delicacy, but with only a faint hold on life, so that perhaps the best of them was not unnaturally a study in the approaches of death: "The Dying of Francis Donne."
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Local Note:
Translated by Felix Paul Greve, later Frederick Philip Grove, for Insel publishers, Leipzig. -- [Reference: Sarkowski, no. 416] -- From Gardone-Riviera, Greve offers this translaion in Aug. 1902. His Munich adress: Giselastr. 15/III, where Thomas Mann also resided in Sept. 1902 (Kolbe, p.69) ---
Acquired from D. O. Spettigue, Summer, 1994. --
Other Author(s):
Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1909
Grove, Frederick Philip, 1879-1948.
Tiemann, Walter, 1876-1951 |
