These short pieces by Peter Altenberg (1859-1919)--a Viennese writer of prose poems, sketches, and aphorisms--chronicle his enthusiastic appreciation of things that range from good writing to the nubile 13-year-old girls of Vienna. An aesthete and bon vivant with a contagious appetite for good living, Altenberg (his real name was Richard Engländer ...
This collection of thirty-eight impressionist episodes describes a white man's friendship with a group of Ashanti tribes people from the Gold Coast of Africa (the former British colony known today as Ghana), who in 1896 were put on display as living objects in a popular ethnographic exhibit in the Vienna Zoological Garden, then still located in ...
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