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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> But the coffeehouse was still the best place to keep up with everything new. In order to understand this it must be said that the Viennese coffeehouse is a particular institution which is not comparable to any other in the world. As a matter of fact it is a sort of democratic club to which admission costs the small price of a cup of coffee. Upon payment of this mile every guest can sit for hours on end discuss write play cards receive his mail and above all can go through an unlimited number of newspapers and magazines. In the better-class Viennese coffeehouse all the Viennese newspapers were available and not the Viennese alone but also those of the entire German Reich the French and the English the Italian and the American papers and in addition all of the important literary and art magazines of the world And so we knew everything that took place in the world at first hand we learned about every book that was published and every production no matter where it occurred; and we compared the notices in every newspaper. Perhaps nothing has contributed to the intellectual mobility and the international orientation of the Austrian as as much as that he could keep abreast of all world events in the coffeehouse and at the same time discuss them in the circle of his friends. (SP)