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This true story, researched by Lotte and Joseph Hamburger of Yale University, is a kind of Victorian forerunner of 'You've Got Mail' set in the 1830s.

She is Sarah Austin, a 39-year-old Englishwoman from a respectable and religious family, learned, lively, beautiful, energetic, resolute and driven by the need to be challenged. She is unusual for her time in many ways, and is well known as a translator and author.

He is a minor Prussian nobleman, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau. eight years older than Sarah, famous as a travel author and park designer and for his hedonistic lifestyle. He is playful, full of vitality, curious about everything around him, enthusiastically reaching for every new experience - and particularly those involving women.

Sarah is trapped in a loveless and dutiful marriage to John, an austere legal scholar. While she is translating Hermann's book into English they begin to exchange letters, and despite their differing backgrounds a romance develops. Hermann encourages Sarah to be frank and honest and to indulge her imagination. Their letters become increasingly intimate, and after a few exchanges she is eagerly confiding her innermost thoughts about her life, her disappointment in marriage and her hunger for love and sexual satisfaction. She finds the affection, intimacy and emotional sustenance that is so lacking in her marriage, and pours out her feelings with complete openness - completely counter to the customs of her time, and fraught with the danger of discovery as their letters are carried by German embassy couriers right under her husband's nose.

As the erotic tension builds Sarah becomes increasingly desperate to love and be loved "as a woman, passionately". Her thoughts return constantly to adultery, in spite of her strong feelings of duty towards her husband and daughter.

The book is an absorbing journey into the mind of a gifted woman who dared to circumvent the repressive customs of her day. It is based on her recently rediscovered letters, which were hidden away for so long in case of censure but which are now more likely to elicit sympathy rather than condemnation. Its appeal is partly in the sheer unlikeliness of the story, and partly in the passion of the letters - which were meant for his eyes only and then the flames.

So did they or didn't they? You'll have to read the book to find out.

"Doctor Glas" (1905), by Hjalmar Soderberg (1869-1941), is the philosophically conflicted diary of Tyko Glas, a young medical doctor in Stockholm, Sweden's largest city, in the form of his personal written diary. He tells us he is just thirty years old and looking for adventure, a progressive and aesthetic intellectual in a conservative city. He disdains the many requests he receives for abortions, invariably turning them away, not of his own beliefs, but because he fears Sweden's hypocritical society would ostracize him.

One day a young lady named Helga provides his life a twist, coming to his examination room, pleading for him to declare she has an "infection of the womb", so her husband of six years, Pastor Gregorius, will not touch her sexually. In truth, she has another man in mind. Glas knows Gregorius personally, and despises him for his own reasons, but after some moral agonizing, the young doctor takes the bull by the horns, "diagnosing" Gregorius with a "weak heart", telling him sex could kill him. This medically-enforced chastity drives Gregorius mad, and he "rapes" his wife out of frustration one night. To diffuse the elevating tension, Gregorius takes a brief trip to another town, during which his wife openly appears in public with her lover back home on Stockholm's streets. Glas, the first-person narrator of this book, reflects on the meaning of life, recalling the young girls he knew earlier in life, admitting he has never held a female in an embrace, and finding himself falling in love with Helga himself.

In his diary, Glas wonders if abortion and murder are not similar, in the sense that both relieve a burden of life. Glas wonders if Gregorius could justifiably be killed to relieve the "burden" upon his wife Helga. He reflects on morality, love, sex, and religion, his thoughts become increasingly feverish. He debates the issue through his diary, turning through various twists of logic, trying to find a relative position which is simultaneously moral and expedient. He even goes so far as to prepare two tablets of potassium cyanide, one for the pastor, and one for himself, should his plan go badly. He clearly loses mental clarity with his obsession over this issue.

Will he actually try to kill Gregorius? Will he woo Helga for himself? Will he drop the entire issue, and snap back to reality? Will he accomplish the impossible reconciliation between morality and his impulses? The resolution will be an interesting one, but Glas will offer only one insight: "Life, I do not understand you."

The book itself is nicely written, the prose lovely of description, polite, high-toned, and at times romantic, and the subject matter frank, from schoolboy wonderment and embarrassment, to "husband's rights" and the moral place of abortion, euthanasia, murder, love, sex, infidelity, and unrequited love in society. The narration is elegant, and this brief novel (150pp) is actually surprisingly substantial. The tone is thoughtful throughout, and an interesting book to read.

(Note: Some readers might have some fun knowing there is a very interesting website, created by a fan, which features this book's various Stockholm locales posted in photos.)

This is an excellent book for introducing young children to drugs...both the good and the bad. It is very helpful if there is abuse in the family and it needs to be explained to small children. It is a great book to open the lines of communication.

This is a wonderful book or actually it is many books I have been reading this book to my two boys everynight for the last few weeks and we have just started repeating the paths I wish the others were in print once more...

The author Dr. Austin pulls together many resources like philosophers Immanuel Kant,Martin Heidigger and the teachings of the Bible as well as lessons in physics to show many different thought patterns and was of looking at the same phemonenon. It fairly easy to ready, but it helps ifyou have a basic understanding of philosphy and religion. Dr. Austin pulls all of these elements together to prove that science and faith are not mutually exclusive and somewhat necessarily bound together. I think the author is try to prove you can have faith and still beleive in science and also that you can use science and still have faith. One does not excldue the other.

Thomas Sullivan provides a clear, consise, and easy to use reference guide for anyone to use. This book not only contains actual text of some major environmental laws, but it also sites case studies and court decisions, all in an easy to read format. This book is a must for anyone dealing in environmental matters, and is a good source of reference for anyone concerned with the environment and public policy.

The author (who has been a prominent investigator in cancer epidemiology for many years) has written a "primer" on epidemiology for the rest of us. Taking a no non-sense approach to a complex subject, he uses humor and easy to understand concepts to make his subject matter both enjoyable and enlightening. This is a booklet for managers, lawyers, and those in the health sciences who need a jumpstart refresher ASAP.

Call me morbid, but I liked the concept of hearing the present as well as day-dreaming thoughts of a dying man. While I would sometimes get lost in the rambling dreams, I especially liked how the writer developed the present situation in terms of where he was, who he had become, and who he was with.

The thoughts in between the spoken dialogue paints a glaringly introspective picture of a man and his relationship with a woman. I believed his perspective. I felt that he was seeing the relationship through a honest and real lens of death, while she seemed to be in a living shroud of "love" born out of her need and convenience. It is a rather typical portrait, a woman clinging to a man for emotional security and a man clinging to a woman out of a sense of failure to do anything else. The way he describes their relationship is telling about who he is: bare - real - a dying dog who wonders when and how he lost his bite. He can still perform the motions of everyday living, for her sake, but his truth is inescapable in his head. I found this relationship, and the discussion about passion vs. wealth and his reasons for choosing one over the other very intriguing.

What did the writer feel was left unwritten? We don't know what he wrote in the first place, maybe more of the same. It is written on the cover of my book that Hemingway said "I put all the true stuff in" this short story; with enough material to fill up four novels. Perhaps this was a story born out of a "writers block" period that felt like death to his spirit.

Why did the leopard go up the mountain and freeze to death? Not for food, not curiosity. Perhaps out of a desperate fling, like the writers reason for coming to Africa - to shake of the excess wealth and find his passion again. Instead, he found death and unrealized dreams. The writer found stories left unwritten, the panther a summit unreached, for us: something different.

My vote on one of the most interesting passages from the story: "We must all be cut out for what we do, he thought. However you make your living is where your talent lies. He had sold vitality in one form or another, all his life and when your affections are not too involved you give much better value for the money. He had found that out but he would never write that, now, either. No, he would not write that, although it was well worth writing."

Hemingway perhaps questioned wether or not he was supposed to be a writer - at the same time, however, he felt he had figured out one of the keys to be a successful writer: "A message bogged down with the writers own feelings and partialities decreases its merit or value". He seemed to feel that writers should retell their observations, without "making the waters muddy" with their own attachments. Yet if he wasn't meant to be a writer, if he didn't have "talent" or wasn't "cut out" for what he did, he wouldn't have understood that. So in the end, he feels vindicated...

Of course, he could have meant that affections were the death of vitality?

I recently reread this book, because I am a fan of the author's. I felt that this was an excellent book. There was conflict and the characters were well-drawn. I like suspense and intrigue and there was some of this in the book, even thought I would have liked to seen more. Overall, I would highly recommend this book.