Auf Der Sonnenseite, Erzählungen Und Skizzen (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Auf Der Sonnenseite, Erzählungen Und Skizzen More than one difficulty is encountered by the editor who attempts to compile, for use in American schools, representative specimens of German humoristic writing: in the first place, compared with the other great literatures of the world, German letters no matter how rich in all other fields -are unusually barren in regard to this spe cihe branch. Humor is indeed an mm in German literature. Besides, German humor differs so widely in character from American, that only in exceptional cases is it appreciated on this side of the Atlantic. With most Germans the term humor has retained somewhat of its original Latin meaning: the Germans expect it to make their eyes humid, in other words, that it should strongly appeal to their sentiment. Dickens's humor possesses a great deal of this specific element, and it was, no doubt, for this reason, that the death of the great English Aristo phanes was felt in Germany, in spite of the immense war excitement of 1870, as if one of their own favorites had been taken from them. 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.