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Germany. A Winter Tale (Bilingual

By Heinrich Heine

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Germany. A Winter Tale (Bilingual

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
136
Release Date:
2007-10-30
Publication Date:
2007-10-25
Publisher:
Mondial
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1595690719
ISBN13:
9781595690715
Weight:
182 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
8 cm
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