The Exiles

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The Exiles: A Tale The pictures which I lay before the reader are certainly truthful, but he must not forget that many other equally truthful pictures, which had the same right to be exhibited as these, have remained unexhibited. In particular, I have purposely refrained from touching upon politics, except where it was unavoidable. To my American readers I would simply remark, in explanation of such detailed descriptions and delineations as may seem to them superfluous, that this book was written originally for Germans. I would also caution them, in case they should find the characters with which they will meet, drawn from life, and perhaps think that here and there they recognise an acquaintance, against accusing me, in consequence, of personality. I acknowledge no one of the characters drawn in the following pages to be the portrait of a particular person, nor any of the events pictured in them as the description of any scene actually experienced. In the conception and delineation of these characters and scenes, inasmuch as they bear the impress of nationality, the eye and hand of the European will hardly be mistaken, but only a onesided national pride, only a limited popular vanity, can prevent the reader from also recognising in them the heart which beats for the free native land of the dearest which it possesses on earth, and the home of its voluntary adoption. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.