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Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine

 

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Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine : Raphael

'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in German): there is genius in all of these, but whether any of them is among the best of his half-a-century of works, I have no means of ascertaining.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine : Rudolph von Werdenberg

'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in German): there is genius in all of these, but whether any of them is among the best of his half-a-century of works, I have no means of ascertaining.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

Auguste Heinrich Julius Lafontaine : Tinchen oder die Mannerprobe

'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in German): there is genius in all of these, but whether any of them is among the best of his half-a-century of works, I have no means of ascertaining.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

 

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