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Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag

German1816 – 1895Fiction

German author whose novel Debit and Credit is a key text of German bourgeois realism. His Ancestors cycle spans German history from antiquity to his own day with enormous scope and nationalist conviction.

Works

  • Debit and CreditGerman merchant's rise through trade, love, and moral integrity→
  • The AncestorsGerman family saga spanning generations of wealth and decline→
  • The JournalistsJournalists and media power in Prussian political environment→
  • Pictures from the German PastHistorical essays depicting German culture and social development→
  • Marcus Konig→

Related

Theodor Fontane·Wilhelm Raabe·Theodor Storm
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