Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG The four hour-plus play begins

The four hour-plus play begins with a soliloquy in which he explains his cynical disillusionment with love

3rd printing / 1979

Fascinated by the oddly soothing voice

His quest will lead him to riches far different—and far more satisfying—than he ever imagined

his beautiful mother

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG The four hour-plus play beginsFIRST EDITION [1939] W. W. NORTON & COMPANY Rare US First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in tact with some small tears and general soiling discoloration. Book itself is gorgeous and reads Like New with just a hint of tanning to pages. Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With their symbolic