Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Ideal Carol Lynn McKibben She earned more than the

She earned more than the President of the United States and lived in her own junior-sized San Simeon

He explains how strong public institutions

is not the inevitable outcome of a crisis but of a poor response

twenty-year-old marriage

there are more than thirty plantations open to the public in South Carolina

Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Austrian Ideal Carol Lynn McKibben She earned more than theThe Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874 1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his generation called Hofmannsthal a spiritual moral authority of a kind German culture had only rarely produced. This volume provides translations of essays that