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Title: Memories
Author: Max Muller
Release Date: December 29, 2004 [eBook #14521]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMORIES***
E-text prepared by Al Haines, with thanks to David Bridson for checking
the German text
Transcriber's note: This book contains several brief passages in German,
each of which is followed by an English translation.
Several of the German words contain "o-umlaut",
which has been rendered as "oe". Several others
contain the German "Eszett" character, which has
been rendered as "ss".
MEMORIES
A Story of German Love
Translated from the German of
MAX MULLER
by
George P. Upton
Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1902
CONTENTS.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
FIRST MEMORY
SECOND MEMORY
THIRD MEMORY
FOURTH MEMORY
FIFTH MEMORY
SIXTH MEMORY
SEVENTH MEMORY
LAST MEMORY
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.
The translation of any work is at best a difficult task, and must
inevitably be prejudicial to whatever of beauty the original possesses.
When the principal charm of the original lies in its elegant
simplicity, as in the case of the "Deutsche Liebe," the difficulty is
still further enhanced. The translator has sought to reproduce the
simple German in equally simple English, even at the risk of
transferring German idioms into the English text.
The story speaks for itself. Without plot, incidents or situations, it
is nevertheless dramatically constructed, unflagging