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The Criminal of Lost Honour (Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre) is a crime report by Friedrich Schiller, first published in 1786 under the title Verbrecher aus Infamie (Criminal of Infamy).
Hermann Sudermann was a German dramatist and novelist.
Johann Jakob Bodmer was a Swiss author, academic, critic and poet.
Christian Fürchtegott Gellert was a German poet, one of the forerunners of the golden age of German literature that was ushered in by Lessing.
Gustav Benjamin Schwab was a German writer, pastor and publisher.
The Dream Cycle is a series of short stories and novellas by author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Written between 1918 and 1932, they are about the "Dreamlands", a vast alternate dimension that can only be entered via dreams. The Dreamlands are described as beyond human comprehension and deeper than concepts of matter or time, and are a "limitless vacua beyond all thought and entity".
Karl Viktor Müllenhoff was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Hans Prutz was a German historian.
Karl Julius Ploetz was a German author of scholarly works, most notably his Epitome of History published in the English language in 1883.
Ignaz Vincenz Zingerle was an Austrian poet and scholar.
GeorgWickram was a German poet and novelist.
Willibald Alexis, the pseudonym of Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Häring, was a German historical novelist, considered part of the Young Germany movement.
Hermann Leberecht Strack was a German Protestant theologian and orientalist; born in Berlin.
LibriVox is a group of worldwide volunteers who read and record public domain texts, creating free public domain audiobooks for download from their website and other digital library hosting sites on the internet. It was founded in 2005 by Hugh McGuire to provide "Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain" and the LibriVox objective is "To make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet".
Wilhelm Ritter von Hertz was a German writer. He was born in Stuttgart.
Aloisia Kirschner was an Austrian novelist, born in Prague and favorably known under her pseudonym Ossip Schubin, which she borrowed from the novel Helena by Ivan Turgenev.
Joseph Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ihne was a German historian who was a native of Fürth. He was the father of architect Ernst von Ihne (1848–1917).
Karl Friedrich Becker was a German educator and historian. His most noted work was World History for Children and Teachers of Children which was widely used and much edited and revised by other noted historians after Becker's death.
A magnanimous act. From recent history is a prose work by Friedrich Schiller, published in his Kleinere prosaische Schriften. It first appeared in 1782.
Alfred Meissner was an Austrian poet.
"The Panther" is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke written between 1902 and 1903. It describes a captured panther behind bars, as it was exhibited in the Ménagerie of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. It is one of Rilke's most famous poems and has been translated into English many times, including by many distinguished translators of Rilke, like Stephen Mitchell, C. F. MacIntyre, J. B. Leishman and Walter Arndt, Jessie Lamont and poets like Robert Bly. It is used in the film Awakenings (1990) by the protagonist Leonard Lowe as a metaphor for his physical disability.