Florian is a Lipizzaner stallion. His life starts as a pampered foal, and he eventually becomes an emperor’s horse. With the death of the Emperor, Francis Joseph, life changes for Florian. The new Emperor does not use carriage horses, only cars or trains, so all the horses of the Imperial Sta...
The Austrian erotic classic that'll make any parent think twice about taking their young ones to meet a beloved children's book author. Written by Felix Salten (Bambi), The Memoirs of Josephine Mutzenbacher is the story of a young girl and her many amorous encounters, with friends, family, and th...
Most of my generation, when they think of Bambi, think of the sentimental Disney movie. But the original book was a serious work. Its one-of-a-kind conception and spectacular writing have earned it classic status as the story of a young deer growing to adulthood in his woodland home. Salten's ...
Ennsbauer had been notified of the Imperial disposition and became more assiduous than ever. Florian was also afire with ambition, as if aware of what was to follow. The equerry came often, and from day to day his amazement grew. “Bravo, Ennsbauer!” he praised. “This will be your masterpiece.” En...
I felt that he meant me harm. As he would walk up and down the aisle, talking to the class, he always stopped at my seat, patting my hair and rubbing his hand on my back. I was choked and shocked every time that he did this, but I felt quite flattered at these friendly overtures and smiled at him...
Chilly weather persisted with its wintry breath. The sky and the earth seemed cut off from each other. But though gray clouds still masked the sun, the trees began to sprout delicate young leaves. Bitter-cold rain poured down, yet the grass sprouted afresh and the flowers bloomed. Icy winds swept...
A student, connoisseur and reverent lover of nature, he was as accustomed to the wild solitudes of the north as of the tropics. Indeed he never really felt solitary. That stirring life which had surrounded him from his youth in the forests of his native country, the turbulent life in Central Afri...
Within the cramped walls of a building into which the sun but rarely shone, he was leaving his belongings and the last years of his boyhood. In the kitchen, the bedroom and the parlour, even in the windings of the steep familiar stairs, which he was now descending never to climb again, in the dar...
They had won it back after a bitter struggle, and they found it far more forsaken and hopeless than before. They got a short rest here, for the troops had to recover from their weariness. The armoured cars and the heavy artillery moved out, supported by powerful squadrons of aircraft. The infantr...