Gustav Adolfs Page (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Gustav Adolfs PageIF in this age of indiscriminate writing a book by a hith erto unknown author appears, a reader may well hesitate before taking it up. But when he learns that the author is a man almost past middle life, a man of ripe scholarship, of high aspirations, and - what is becoming rarer among us from day to day of literary conscience, and when he knows that the volume was not sent out with the customary beating of drums and ¿ourish of trumpets, but was left to make its own way in the estimation of the public, or to be forgotten, the attention of every lover Of truth and of letters is arrested. Nor is it surprising that the first fruit of such a man should be a masterpiece. Huttens Letzte Tage by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, first published in 1871, was not Meyer's first publication, for a volume Of poems had preceded it by a few years, but it was the first that reached the public, - the first, moreover, in which Meyer had displayed his remarkable power of expression. Since then the great theme of nearly all his books has been a patriotic one: the hero battling for his fatherland.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.