Grete Minde: nach einer altmärkischen Chronik

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H. Holt, 1911 - 184 pages
 

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Page 160 - during the last part of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. It
Page xii - is a consummate example of the real historical novel: historical events are not used by the novelist simply to make easy adventures for his characters
Page xv - is the interplay of character and conduct. And this is a matter of every-day experience, — it is not reserved for the great crises.
Page xiii - to supply an extraneous interest, but the basic principles which determined the course of history are evolved in the
Page xxvii - die Feuersbrunst zu Tangermünde am 13. Sept. 1617. Ein Denkmal menschlicher Verworfenheit.
Page xvi - with fateful reminiscence, welding the substance of the story more closely together.
Page xii - only attempt to enliven a remoter epoch, a period far beyond the
Page ix - Ein Sommer in London (1854), Aus England (1860), and Jenseits des Tweed

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