Florian (31 page)
Authors: Felix Salten
Neustift's hand glides softly over the sensitive nostrils while he says: “Only the last thing is still waiting for us, the very last . . . for you and for me. . . .”
Florian, however, is incapable of sentimentalities. Gently he disengages himself from the man's embrace and stands for another few moments beside him, as if in deep thought.
Then he slowly moves away. Slowly he strides across the meadow, is distant, and is a pale luminous shadow in the falling mantle of the night.
Felix Salten
was an author and critic in Vienna, Austria. He was the author of plays, short stories, novels, travel books, and essay collections. His most famous work is
Bambi
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1933 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag; copyright renewed
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1961 by Anna Katharina Wyler-Salten
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1934 by Bobbs-Merrill; copyright renewed
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1962 by Anna Katharina Wyler-Salten, Erich Posselt, and Michael Kraike
Originally published in German in 1933 by Paul Zsolnay Verlag as
Florian Das Pferd des Kaisers
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The text of this book was set in Yana.
Library of Congress Control Number 2014953798
ISBN 978-1-4424-8758-1 (hc)
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