What do you get when you cross a radical pacific, vegetarian, education-minded noble-woman with a with a Romantic-Realist, depressive-humorist, Nationalist German writer?
Anti-fascist fiction from a Nazi Collaborator, goofy Swabian Folk Tales, and more.
The complicated life and marvelous literary legacy of a woman of two centuries.
Isolde Kurz (1853-1944) wrote delightful stories, memoirs, fairy tales and poetry – and German readers of her time could not get enough of them. Daughter of Hermann Kurz, a famous writer, she was widely admired for her versatility and erudition.
Isolde was an unabashed patriot who lived through tremendous upheavals in history while maintaining her fundamentally humanistic and compassionate outlook on the world.
Dig into this collection to discover her craft, her wit and her wiles.
Plus: at no extra charge, a bite-sized history of Europe from Napoleon to Hitler.
Illustrated.