DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Joy of Living (Es lebe das Leben)" (A Play in Five Acts) by Hermann Sudermann. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
John the Baptist is a play about one of the most important Catholic saints. Excerpt: "MIRIAM Hadidja, I am afraid! HADIDJA Come! MIRIAM I am afraid. Seest thou those gliding shadows? Their feet scarce touch the stones, and their flesh is like the shadow of the night wind. HADIDJA Fool that thou art! Thou art afraid of thy companions in misery and suffering. The same need as thine brings them hither; the same hope leads them on to the heights."
This novel, written by German author Hermann Sudermann, begins with the narrator's presence in the midst of a funeral. His thoughts colored the pages of the books in a satirical bent, as one can see from this excerpt: "I tell you, gentlemen, it's a rotten piece of business to be standing beside an old friend's open grave-simply disgusting. You stand with your feet planted in the upturned earth, and twirl your mustache and look stupid, while you feel like crying the soul out of your body. He was dead--there was no use wishing he wasn't. In him was lost the greatest genius for concocting and mixing punches, cocktails, grogs, cobblers--every sort of drink. I tell you, gentlemen, when you went walking in the country with him and he began to draw the air in through his nose in his peculiar fashion, you might be sure he had just conceived a new idea for a punch. From the mere smell of a weed he knew the sorts of wine that had to be poured over it to bring into being a something extra fine, a something that had never before existed.All in all he was a good fellow, and in the many years we sat opposite each other, evening after evening, when he came to me at Ilgenstein, or I rode over to him at Döbeln, the time never dragged."
This new volume in the Author Chronology series illuminates the writing of Edith Wharton by detailing her experiences and placing her in her social context. Edith Wharton was a prolific as well as a many-sided writer, who created not only novels, novellas, short stories, and poems, but also a notable series of travel writings, and did translations, pieces for the theatre, and essays on other writers and their works, as well as on the creation and criticism of fiction.This account of Wharton's personal and professional life provides an invaluable insight into an important American woman writer of the Twentieth Century.
