The Confusions of Young Torless Contributor(s): Musil, Robert (Author), Whiteside, Shaun (Translator), Coetzee, J. M. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0142180009 ISBN-13: 9780142180006 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2001032735 |
Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.06" W x 7.75" (0.43 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets --Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini--rift even further away from their school- fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |