Brigitta

I make no apology for more Adalbert because I've just finished Brigitta from the volume of stories of the same title and am starting to agree with Thomas Mann.

Brigitta 2007

I make no apology for more Adalbert because I've just finished Brigitta from the volume of stories of the same title and am starting to agree with Thomas Mann.

Brigitta 2007

I make no apology for more Adalbert because I've just finished Brigitta from the volume of stories of the same title and am starting to agree with Thomas Mann.

44 entries from December 2007 2007

"Brigitta," said I to her, "after the little affection you have ever manifested for me, it would be impossible as well as unwise to take you into my service; but let me know in what way I can best promote the interest of yourself and husband, and I pledge myself to accomplish it for you."

Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself Etienne-L��on Lamothe-Langon 1825

Though brought up in this system of parentless and loveless eugenics, the prisoner is so full of natural wisdom or heaven-sent guidance that she can eloquently defend the actions of her fugitive group in encouraging a certain (miraculously) pregnant Brigitta to have her baby in the old illegal, messy way.

The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna Ursula K Le Guin 2010

So there you have the man and with no expectations about his writing I embarked on Brigitta, a book of novellas translated by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and the first story Abdias.

Adalbert Stifter 2007

Perhaps, like Irmgard Keun, a resurgence is imminent as I discover Pushkin Press will be adding to the available work of Adalbert Stifter next year and Brigitta, the book I'm reading also readily available.

Adalbert Stifter 2007

I was reminded of Henry James's remarks about that 'horse-faced bluestocking' George Eliot as I started to read Brigitta, a woman whose beauty is most certainly inner rather than outer as the story begins with some of Stifter's traditional preliminary analytical scene-setting

Brigitta 2007

Perhaps, like Irmgard Keun, a resurgence is imminent as I discover Pushkin Press will be adding to the available work of Adalbert Stifter next year and Brigitta, the book I'm reading also readily available.

Adalbert Stifter 2007

So there you have the man and with no expectations about his writing I embarked on Brigitta, a book of novellas translated by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and the first story Abdias.

Adalbert Stifter 2007