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Castle Gripsholm
- Title
- Castle Gripsholm / Kurt Tucholsky ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann.
- Author
- Tucholsky, Kurt, 1890-1935
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- ©1985
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-4853 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-
- Description
- 127 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment: Tucholsky's publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off: about Peter, a writer; his girlfriend, known as the Princess; and a summer vacation far from the hurly-burly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal; five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peter's buddy Karlchen and with Billy, the Princess's best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in?"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- Uniform Title
- Schloss Gripsholm. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Schloss Gripsholm.
- Subject
- 1918-1933
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Authors > Fiction
- Vacations > Fiction
- Interpersonal relations > Fiction
- Group homes for children > Fiction
- Child welfare > Fiction
- Vacations
- Man-woman relationships
- Interpersonal relations
- Group homes for children
- Child welfare
- Authors
- Sweden > History > Fiction
- Germany > History > 1918-1933 > Fiction
- Sweden
- Germany
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Note
- Publication date from publisher's website.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-4853
- ISBN
- 9781681373348
- 1681373343
- 9781681373355 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018035291
- OCLC
- 1048058820
- Author
- Tucholsky, Kurt, 1890-1935, author.
- Title
- Castle Gripsholm / Kurt Tucholsky ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Michael Hofmann.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©1985
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books ClassicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Chronological Term
- 1918-1933
- Added Author
- Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-4853