Ausgewählte Prosa Edited, with Notes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ausgewählte Prosa: Edited, With Notes In the first place, every teacher of German has suffered to a greater or less extent from the want of good reading books of prose. Nearly all the longer pieces read in our colleges and schools are taken from the poetical literature of the language, and especially from the drama. It would be superfluous to dwell upon the grave inconveniences arising from such one-sidedness. The difference between poetry and prose is marked in any language, and more so than in German. When the student passes from easy lyrics and dramas to the grave and subtle style of history or criticism, he finds himself in a new world, as it were. He is confronted with tangled constructions, abstruse reasonings, and a terminology and mode of thought for which he is wholly unprepared. The read ing-books in common use will not be of much avail. The prose extracts which they contain are either far too easy and simple, or they are too fragmentary. They exhaust nothing, neither the style, the subject, nor the author. 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.