Vienna around 1900: Bored with her bourgeois existence, Irene Wagner embarks on an erotic adventure. A stranger blackmails her. Irene's fear of being discovered becomes unbearable. Classroom reading and text analysis made easy: The "Reclam XL Text and Context" series meets all the requirements for school reading and the needs of German lessons: Reclam XL offers the carefully edited text, page and line identical to the corresponding edition from Reclam's Universal Library. The format is larger (12.2 x 20 cm) than the yellow classics of the Universal Library, with ample space for notes in the margins. Difficult words are explained at the bottom of each page, and more detailed word and subject explanations are provided in the appendix. A supplementary section with text and image documents facilitates the classification and interpretation of the work in the classroom. * Of course, all existing study guides, commentaries, and interpretations are still compatible!