| The Honest Man at Court (1740) Contributor(s): Loen, Johann Michael Von (Author), Russell, John R. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1571131086 ISBN-13: 9781571131089 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 833.5 |
| LCCN: 96052575 |
| Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9" W x 6" (1.20 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This interesting but neglected eighteenth-century novel, by von Loën - a successful merchant and a great-uncle of Goethe - comes at the end of the tradition in which members of upper-class society narrate their life-stories; the author uses the device to show the education of a prince to bring about a paragon of nobility. As a whole, it provides a revealing mirror of the attitudes of the German enlightenment. First English translation. JOHN RUSSELL is Professor Emeritus of German at SUNY Stony Brook. |