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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FRITZ REUTER THE BRASIG EPISODES FROM UT MINE STROMTID TRANSLATED BY M. W. MACDOWALL EDITED AND ABRIDGED BY EDMUND VON 1IACH, PH.D. IT MINE STROMTID: A Story Op My Youth, depicts the joys and sorrows of a North German country community during the lean years of the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Human passions rent the hearts of men then as now. Nobility of soul distinguished some, and was lacking in many. Education was not universal, but common sense perhaps rather frequent. The best road to a happy life, however, was then as always, a kindly heart, a strict sense of justice, and a dash of unconscious humor. This lucky combination endeared Uncle Brasig to everyone, and enabled him to make his blustering way cheerfully, yet serenely conscious of all joys and sorrows, amid the vicissitudes of life. He understood the human heart, whether it beat in the breast of a child or a tired old man, of a villain or of a loving wife. Nobody, however, was dearer to him than Nina and Lina Niissler, his god-children. And naughty little girls these angelic twins were too, without respect for grandfather's peruke or grandmother's Sunday cap. They placed them on their own curly locks, and danced the Kringelkranz-Rosendanz, and in so doing broke Mina's favorite toy-jar. In their eagerness to have it mended they ran from the house.] Just as the children entered the yard a little man came in at the gate. And this little man had a red face, and a very imposing red nose which he always held cocked up inthe air. He wore a square cap of no particular color with a tassel in front, and a long-tailed, loose, gray linen-coat. He always kept his feet turned out in an exaggerated first position which made his short legs look as if they were fastened to his body in the wrong way. He had...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217891370 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217891373 |
| Weight | 0.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.55 In |
| List Price | $24.30 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 244 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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