A Confirmed Bachelor

Arthur Schnitzler

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English

Penguin
15 July 2025

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Penguin Archive

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

Following the death of his sister, middle-aged Dr Graesler leaves his winter home in Lanzarote for a health resort in Germany, where he practised medicine for many years. There he meets the Schleheim family, and is particularly drawn to their daughter Sabine. But a simple, stilted courtship soon unravels a web of hushed-up suicide and illicit sexual liaisons. Arthur Schnitzler's tumultuous psychodrama remains as startling now as it did on first publication.

By: Arthur Schnitzler
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 180mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 9mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9780241746790
ISBN 10: 0241746795
Series: Penguin Archive
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

The extraordinary Viennese writer Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1910) was the son of a prominent Jewish laryngologist. Schnitzler studied medicine at Vienna University, but soon abandoned medicine for writing. From 1895, he attracted public attention as a dramatist. Concentrating on sex and death, his work shows a remarkable capacity to create atmosphere and to pursue profound, ruthless and often Freudian analysis of human motives.