Depicting the evolution of a moral dilemma in dazzling stream-of-consciousness narrative, Arthur Schnitzler`s Fraulein Else is a darkly witty exploration of Viennese social mores. Fraulein Else is the story of a young woman who, while staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, receives a telegram from her mother begging her to save her father from debtor`s jail by approaching an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Forced by the exigencies of her family into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination, we are brought unremittingly to the horrific consequences of Else`s realisation that her world is one in which everything has a price & where the veneer of morality is as brittle & transparent as glass. Translated from the German by F.H. Lyon, Arthur Schnitzler`s modernist novella Fraulein Else is published by Pushkin Press. Arthur Schnitzler (b.1862) was born in Vienna, the son of a prominent Jewish doctor, & studied medicine at the University of Vienna. In later years he devoted his life to writing & was successful as a novelist, dramatist & short story writer. Schnitzler`s work shows a remarkable ability to create atmosphere & a profound understanding of human motives.