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Inhalt: "Die deutsche Literatur" Einleitung zu "Kahldorf über den Adel Verschiedenartige Geschichtsauffassung Vorrede zum ersten Band des "Salon" Die Götter im Exil Einleitung zum "Don Quixote" Über den Denunzianten Der Schwabenspiegel Schriftstellernöten Erklärung Ludwig Börne Shakespeares Mädchen und Frauen

Dieser Band beinhaltet folgende Essays des deutschen Schriftstellers: Die romantische Schule Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland Elementargeister

Heines Versuch seinen Mitmenschen die Augen über das Judentum zu öffnen gipfelt in dieser Novelle. Heine gehört zu den größten deutschen Schriftstellern.

The fundamental conception of the drama "The Burgraves" is a dramatic struggle between two antithetical forces: fatality attempting to impose punishment on a degraded race and providence striving to pardon and to rehabilitate. The poet has embodied the force of fatality in an old slave named...

Ruy Blas has held the stage better than any other of his dramas and has been popular in America. Here Hugo's dramatic theory of contrast of grave and gay, rapid alternation of tragic and grotesque, is pushed to its utmost verge. The scene is Madrid; the time 1699. Don Salluste de Bazan, scorned by...

The Pole is a short story, that was written in close cooperation with Claire Clairmont.

In thirteenth-century Florence, Italy, the pro-Papacy Guelphs have re-established supremacy and expelled the pro-imperial Ghibellines following the death of the Ghibelline Manfred, King of Sicily. The triumphant Guelphs await their champion, the French Charles d'Anjou, while their opponents await...

"The Mourner" is a story about a young man named Neville and a young lady named Ellen. In the beginning of the narration, Neville is walking with his fiance Juliet in Virginia Water. They come upon an unmarked grave the Neville is familiar with, that of his childhood friend Ellen. Neville...

One of Shelley's stories that show her love for Italy, Italian history, bloodlines and politics. The main plot concentrates on a family rivalry in Siena. The Mancinis and the Tolomeis are fierce opponents, but all of a sudden one member of the one family falls in love with a member of the other ...

A gothic short story about a girl, whose portrait was found in an old, ruined tower. An old lady narrates then the story of Rosina, an orphan, who was thrown out of the house when Sir Peter discovered, that she was in love with his son. When she cannot be found the following day, son Henry sets out on a search and soon hears from fishermen about a invisible girl ...

"The Parvenue" is told in first person by a narrator named Fanny. She begins by explaining that she has been so bewildered by the events she is about to retell that she leaves it to the reader to judge her actions. The money troubles that plague the narrator's family and their constant demands...

The Pilgrims tells the story of an hermit knight who gives shelter to two pilgrims. He begins to tell them about his dramatic and tragic life, when he suddenly perceives, that these pilgrims are not what he thinks them to be ...

Ellen, the female protagonist, tells the story of her life. When her parents die and leave her 50.000 pound, she becomes ward of her uncle. After a secret betrothal with one of his sons, she founds out, that she indeed loves the other one ...

This is a scholarly study of the origin and evolution of the Kabbalah. Originally published in French in 1843, with a second French edition in 1889, this book traces the origins of the philosophical concepts of the Kabbalah to the ancient Zoroastrians. Franck goes into fascinating detail about the...