β Scribed by Altenberg, Peter
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Autobiography; Retrospective Introduction to my Book MΓ€rchen des Lebens*; A Letter to Arthur Schnitzler; On Writing; The Koberer (Procurer); Coffeehouse; I Drink Tea; Perfume; On Smells; Tulips; Flower AllΓ©e; Uncle Max; Uncle Emmerich; My Aunt; Career; The Bed; Celebrity; Poem; Love; Theater Evening; Poverty; The Little Silk Swatches; Day of Affluence; Traveling; In the Volksgarten; Marionette Theater; At Buffalo Bill's; Saint Martin's Island; The Kingfisher; The Drummer BelΓn; Twelve; Seventeen to Thirty; Schubert; Gramophone Record; A Real True Relationship.;"Altenberg discovers the splendors of this world like cigarette butts in the ashtrays of coffee houses."--Franz Kafka.
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