← Gustav FreytagPictures from the German Pastby Gustav FreytagHistorical essays depicting German culture and social developmentFind 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 FreytagDebit 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→Marcus Konig→