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Includes letters to Bayard Taylor, Hochverehrter Her und Freund, and Lieber Kapp. Includes English translations for some letters. In a letter from Berlin, 6 January 1874, he mentions Sulzberger.
"On the Heights" from Berthold Auerbach. German-Jewish poet and author (1812-1882).
This book is about love and guilt and forgiveness. Walpurga who becomes a wet nurse for the king and queen when they have their first child. Walpurga makes an accusation to one of the queen's attendant's, Countess Irma. Walpurga accuses her of passing romantic looks between the king over the newborn prince's cradle.We are reminded in this novel that guilt will bring us closer to the people we once caused pain and that we should forgive them and let love prevail.
An excerpt of a review from The Westminster Review, Volume 118: BERTHOLD AUERBACH'S novel will probably prove more attractive to the student and the admirers of the great pantheistic philosopher than to ordinary novel readers. It is essentially a novel with a purpose, and that purpose is the setting forth of the life, the character, and the teachings of Spinoza. It would be difficult indeed for such a work to be popular in the sense in which romance writers aim at popularity. But to the ever-widening circle of students of Spinoza, and to the large class who like to leaven their light reading with instruction, the book will appeal directly. In Goethe's biography, he tells us of the distrust w...
Reproduction of the original: Edelweiss by Berthold Auerbach
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An excerpt of a review from The Westminster Review, Volume 118: BERTHOLD AUERBACH'S novel will probably prove more attractive to the student and the admirers of the great pantheistic philosopher than to ordinary novel readers. It is essentially a novel with a purpose, and that purpose is the setting forth of the life, the character, and the teachings of Spinoza. It would be difficult indeed for such a work to be popular in the sense in which romance writers aim at popularity. But to the ever-widening circle of students of Spinoza, and to the large class who like to leaven their light reading with instruction, the book will appeal directly. In Goethe's biography, he tells us of the distrust w...