Other Fiction Spielhagen, Friedrich: Hammer and Anvil. v1. 20 Aug 2014

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Friedrich Spielhagen (February 24, 1829 – February 25, 1911) was a German novelist, literary theorist and translator. He tried a number of careers in his early 20s, but at 25 began writing and translating. His best known novel is Sturmflut and his novel In Reih' und Glied was quite successful in Russia.

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“Such a novel as no English author with whom we are acquainted could hare written, and no American author except Hawthorne. What separates it from the multitude or American and English novels is the perfection of its plot, and its author’s insight into the souls of his characters…. If Germany is poorer than England, as regards the number of its novelists, it is richer when we consider the intellectual value of their works. If it has not produced a Thackeray, or a Dickens, it has produced, we venture to think, two writers who are equal to them in genius, and superior to them in the depth and spirituality of their art—Auerbach and Spielhagen.”—Putnam’s Magazine.

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