Excerpt from The Green Cockatoo, and Other Plays Arthur Schnitzler was born in 1862, the son of a Viennese physician. He first studied medicine, graduated in 1885, and was second physician to the General Hospital in Vienna from 1886 to 1888. Schnitzler established his reputation as an author with the publication, shortly after he had reached the age of thirty, of Anatoly a cycle of one-act episodes in which are delineated with extraordinary delicacy those two essentially Schnitzlerian types the susses Model, and the romantic flaneur of the heart. In the twenty years subsequent to Anatoly Schnitzler has consolidated a European reputation by a number of plays, novels, and short stories, of which the most significant are The Green Cockatoo, Vivid Hours, Frau Bertha Garlan, The Road in the Open, and the perhaps slightly daring Reigen. The essential characteristics of Schnitzler are the light touch, the psychological penetration, and the ironic wistfulness with which he handles his theme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.