THE GLANCE OF THE COUNTESS HAHN HAHN - down the Danube by Esterhazy, Peter (translated from the Hungarian by Richard Aczel) - 1999

Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press - Hydra Books, 1999. 246 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The cover features Stein on the Danube Seen from the Kreuzberg by Egon Schiele, courtesy of Galerie St Erienne, New York. From the Black Forest to the Black Sea, Esterhazy takes you on a fascinating romp down the Danube, through Vienna, Budapest and beyond the delta where the river empties into the sea... The Chapters are: Don't Prattle - You're Adding to the Chaos; Nelly Backwater; Ein Wintermarchen; Oh Roberto These Are Harsh Words Indeed; Supplication for a Sentence; Roberto Narrates; Duke Bluebeard's Castle; What Was Wrong; Hindemith's Great Love; Nature to Back...; Watching TV in Biberach; The Bar and Eddy of Ulm; The Heart; Stairs; Vienna - The Turning Point; Viennese Secrets; Ship's Log; Invisible Cities; The Truth; and The Long Day.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good+. Illus. by Egon Schiele;. 8vo. Book.