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Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931)
Schnitzler, Arthur. Austrian playwright and novelist; born in Vienna, May 15, 1862; died in 1931. He began with a series of one-act plays, ‘Anatol’ (1889), a form which he continued to employ in ‘The Green Cockatoo’ (1899) and many others. His best plays are: ‘The Fairy Tale’ (1891); ‘Free Game’ (1896); ‘The Legacy’ (1897); ‘Professor Bernhardi’ (1912); and among the longer ones, ‘Light o’ Love’ (1894); ‘The Lonely Way’ (1900); ‘The Land of the Soul’ (1910). Among his stories are: ‘Lieutenant Gustl’ (1901); ‘Mrs. Bertha Garlan’; ‘A Farewell’; ‘The Dead are Silent’; ‘The Stranger’; ‘The New Song’; ‘The Sage’s Wife.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).