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_aNordau, Max Simon, _d1849-1923 |
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| 240 | 1 | 0 | _aSeifenblasen. English |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aSoap bubbles |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-01-24 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aCant and humbug -- Wife versus native land -- Ali Hadji Effendi -- The cross at the corner -- The altar painting -- A Christmas eve in Paris -- The stepmother -- Pas de chance (No chance) -- How the fox hunter fared in England -- Within an inch of eternity. | |
| 508 | _aJeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) | ||
| 520 | _a"Soap bubbles" by Max Simon Nordau is a collection of short stories written in the late 19th century. The pieces blend satire, travel-inflected sketches, and tender moral reflections, moving from comic cultural clashes to poignant meditations on faith, love, patriotism, and grief. Expect cosmopolitan settings, swift anecdotal setups, and humane, reflective endings. The opening of the collection moves briskly across vignettes: a train-car exchange in “Cant and Humbug” pits Americans and an aloof Englishman against each other through dueling “true” anecdotes about national foibles; a salon debate in “Wife versus Native Land” leads to an Italian woman’s tale showing patriotism outmuscling romantic love. “Memories of Hungary” offers three sketches—a gentle portrait of Ali Hadji Effendi, a Persian dervish-poet peddler in Pest; the removal of a shabby street crucifix seen through the grief of an old woman; and the backstory of a luminous altar painting tied to a tragic, unspoken love. “A Christmas Eve in Paris” turns stark and intimate, as a father under siege burns last year’s Christmas tree to brew lifesaving tea for his feverish child. An essay-letter, “The Stepmother,” defends stepmothers against cruel stereotypes with clear-eyed empathy. The section closes by descending into the damp, gas-lit dissecting rooms of the Hôtel Dieu in “Pas de Chance!,” setting a grim, clinical stage for the tale to follow. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cNew York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1896 |
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| 653 | _aAustrian fiction -- Translations into English | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories, Austrian -- Translations into English | ||
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_aSafford, Mary J. _q(Mary Joanna), _d1842-1916 |
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