{"product_id":"fanny-von-arnstein-daughter-of-the-enlightenment-paperback","title":"Fanny Von Arnstein: Daughter of the Enlightenment - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHilde Spiel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChristine Shuttleworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMichael Z. Wise\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautifully written account of a major figure in the history of European Jewry, women's emancipation and cultural patronage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHilde Spiel was the grande dame of 20th century Austrian literature. She was born in Vienna and studied philosophy at the city's university. She left Vienna for England in 1936 amid rising anti-Semitism and because of her opposition to the clerico-fascist Austrian regime, but returned after World War Two and had a distinguished and prolific career as the cultural correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e. Spiel wrote novels, works of cultural history, volumes of essays and literary criticism and translated the works of modern British writers including W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and Tom Stoppard. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristine Shuttleworth grew up in London, the daughter of the German-language writers Hilde Spiel and Peter de Mendelssohn, who emigrated there in 1936. A graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, she has served as executive editor of the international journal \u003ci\u003eThe Indexer\u003c\/i\u003e. She has translated several books by Hilde Spiel: \u003ci\u003eFanny von Arnstein, Daughter of the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Dark and the Bright, Memoirs 1911-1989\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eReturn to Vienna\u003c\/i\u003e. Among her other translations are \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht: The Story of a Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e by Erdmut Wizisla and \u003ci\u003eHuman Space\u003c\/i\u003e by O. F. Bollnow. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Z. Wise spent five years as a Vienna-based correspondent for Reuters and \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. He is author of \u003ci\u003eCapital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 347\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43122990284935,"sku":"9781939931030","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/GOfyXc5RB_9781939931030.webp?v=1756677009","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/fanny-von-arnstein-daughter-of-the-enlightenment-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}