FPG (Greve/Grove)'s Translations:
Oscar Wilde
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FPG/Greve's Translations of Oscar Wilde: | |||
 Greve Portrait, 1902©gd June 2005 |
| Author: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Title: Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H. ; Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen / Oscar Wilde ; Deutsch von Felix Paul Greve. (The introd. to this relatively slim volume is actually Greve's -- here untitled! -- and also separately published essay "Randarabesken zu Oskar Wilde. This "essay-introduction" is signed & dated "Bonn, Okt. 1903" on p. "l" [=p.50]). Published: Minden in Westf. : J.C.C. Bruns, 1903. Description: l [= Roman numeral for 50], 136 p. ; 19 cm. -- Notes: On spine: "O. Wilde / Erzählungen / Minden i. W. / J.C.C. Bruns'/ Verlag." -- Half-title also reads: "Oscar Wilde / Erzählungen." -- This is one of the cheaper "broschiert" or stapled rather than bound copies. Contents: Bruns advertisement of: - Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray [tr., F. P. Greve, 1902], Preis broschiert Mk. 3.50, gebunden Mk. 4.50. -- - Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde [tr., F. P. Greve], Preis 1 Mark. -- - Fingerzeige [tr., F. P. Greve], brosch 3 Mk, geb. 4 Mk [lists "Inhalt", which corresponds to RBR's 1922 copy of this book]. -- - Oscar Wilde: die Geschichte einer unglücklichen Freundschaft / von Robert Harborough Sherard ; Deutsch von Hermann Freiherr von Teschenberg. Preis brosch. 3 Mk., geb. 4 Mk. -- Text: [p.i-p.l] Untitled introduction / essay by FPG = [Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde] / von Felix Paul Greve]. [= 50 pages] Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H., p. [5]-64. -- Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen : eine Studie über die Pflicht, p.[67]-136. Annotation: That Greve's untitled, but signed introduction ["Bonn, Okt. 1903"] to the two O. Wilde translations "Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H." [pp.5-64] & "Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen" [pp.67-136] actually is his otherwise elusive publication "Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde" becomes apparent in tbe preliminary pages of the present book: there, underneath Bruns publishers' advertisement for Greve's separately published & fully titled Essay, one finds the following, glowing description: "Der ganze Zauber von Wildes blendender Persönlichkeit weht durch diese von dithyrambischem Schwunge erfüllten Impromptus, die zugleich die Einleitung zu dem vorliegenden Buche bilden." -- Note: Translations & introductory essay by F. P. Greve. -- Greve's [untitled] essay "Randarabesken" was written in "Bonn, Okt[ober] 1903" when Greve was half-way through serving a year in Bonn prison for having defrauded his friend Herman [sic!] Kilian. Other Titles: Greve, Felix Paul, 1879-1909. Randarabesken zu Oscar Wilde, October 1903. Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Lord Arthur Savile's crime. German Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. The portrait of Mr. W. H. German. |
