Decorative boards with gilt print on spine and gilt decoration in the centre of the front board. Apart from itermittent minor foxing throughout the book, a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 244 pages. Grote`sche Sammlung von Werken zeitgenössischer Schriftsteller. 26. Band The book is light, please check with us for an accurate postage cost. "The enterprise pursued in these pages is grounded in a conviction that Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) was the major nineteenth-century novelist in the German language between Goethe and Fontane, and a writer deserving of an honorable place in the canon of European literature. This claim may bewilder different readers in different ways, depending upon their level of knowledge. Those generally familiar with nineteenth-century European literature may never have heard of Raabe; he has been little translated¹ and has not thus far been accorded much standing in comparative literary history." (Wilhelm Raabe: The Fiction of the Alternative Community - Jeffrey L. Sammons )