The Operetta Empire Spiritualism Orion North wants Isla’s company…and

Orion North wants Isla’s company…and her

The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany—the occult ideas

that the true self is coaxed out through love and living

The Complete Perfectionist includes helpful commentary by noted translator Christopher Maurer and shows perfection as a process of “becoming” rather than an end product

The Operetta Empire Spiritualism Orion North wants Isla’s company…andCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "When the world comes to an end," Viennese writer Karl Kraus lamented in 1908, "all the big city orchestras will still be playing The Merry Widow." Viennese operettas like Franz Lehr's The Merry Widow were preeminent cultural texts during the Austro Hungarian Empire's final years. Alternately hopeful and nihilistic, operetta staged contemporary debates about gender, nationality, and labor. The Operetta Empire