← Gustav FreytagDebit and Creditby Gustav FreytagGerman merchant's rise through trade, love, and moral integrityFind on Amazon↗About the authorGustav FreytagGerman 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.More by Gustav FreytagThe 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→