Books with author Robert Byrne

Excerpt from Sphinx, or Striving With Destiny: A Novel, Translated From the GermanGermany has stridden forth victorious before the whole world in that might and majesty, that depth of intellectuality, which, in secret, the student and admirer of her science, art, literature and language has long known her to possess. During several years America has been developing a marked interest in all the crea tions of German mind. A taste for the German school of fiction, in especial, has spread with marvellous rapidity, and now seems likely to take firm root in the new soil.Most of the works of this class recently presented to our reading public have been from the pens of North German authors. In deed, there has been an unwonted tendency to direct the eyes of the world to the northern countries, where the highest degree of intellectual activity prevails in all departments. Nevertheless, there are many brilliant minds, many earnest thinkers, still labor ing in the central and southern countries, where flourished, in the Weimar days of German literature, so many of its great masters.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.

Excerpt from Sphinx, or Striving With Destiny: A Novel, Translated From the GermanGermany has stridden forth victorious before the whole world in that might and majesty, that depth of intellectuality, which, in secret, the student and admirer of her science, art, literature and language has long known her to possess. During several years America has been developing a marked interest in all the crea tions of German mind. A taste for the German school of fiction, in especial, has spread with marvellous rapidity, and now seems likely to take firm root in the new soil.Most of the works of this class recently presented to our reading public have been from the pens of North German authors. In deed, there has been an unwonted tendency to direct the eyes of the world to the northern countries, where the highest degree of intellectual activity prevails in all departments. Nevertheless, there are many brilliant minds, many earnest thinkers, still labor ing in the central and southern countries, where flourished, in the Weimar days of German literature, so many of its great masters.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.