| Germany. A Winter Tale (Bilingual: Deutschland. Ein Wintermaerchen) Contributor(s): Heine, Heinrich (Author), Moore, Andrew (Editor), Bowring, Edgar Alfred (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1595690719 ISBN-13: 9781595690715 Publisher: MONDIAL OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2007 Annotation: This historic bilingual edition presents Heine's German text in a version dating from 1887 and a translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring from the same year. The original work, published in 1844, was banned in Prussia and the stock confiscated. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: 831.7 |
| LCCN: 2007939765 |
| Physical Information: 0.32" H x 5.51" W x 8.5" (0.40 lbs) 136 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Germany. A Winter Tale (Deutschland. Ein Wintermaerchen) is a satirical verse epic by German author Heinrich Heine (1797-1856). --- Since 1831 Heine had been living in exile in France; because of his critical works, he no longer felt safe from the German censors and police. In 1835 the German Bundestag passed a decree banning his writings. --- In late 1843 Heine went back to Germany for a few weeks to visit his mother and his publisher, Julius Campe, in Hamburg. It was on his return journey that the first draft of Germany. A Winter Tale took shape. The verse epic appeared in 1844, published by Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg; and before the year was out, the book was banned in Prussia and the stock confiscated. In December 1844 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia issued a warrant for Heinrich Heine's arrest. Before the book could be published elsewhere in Germany, outside Prussia, Heine had to shorten and rewrite it. --- Our historic bilingual edition presents the German text in a version dating from 1887 and a translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring from the same year. Heine's 1844 Preface was retranslated by Annette Bridges for our 2007 edition. |