Early 20th Century Volume Set, Wilhelm Schäfer's Erzählende Schriften - 4 Books

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Title: Erzählende Schriften (4 BÄNDE).
Author: Wilhelm Schäfer.
Publisher: G. Müller.
Publication date: 1918.
Origin: München.
Language: German text.

Description: … more Title: Erzählende Schriften (4 BÄNDE).
Author: Wilhelm Schäfer.
Publisher: G. Müller.
Publication date: 1918.
Origin: München.
Language: German text.

Description: 1449 Pp. (Bd. 1. Anekdoten / Novellen, 403 p.; Bd. 2. Rheinsagen., 355 p.; Bd. 3. Eine Chronik der Leidenschaft, 281 p. ; Bd. 4. Lebenstag eines Menschenfreundes, 410 p.). 8vo. 1/4 white Leather hardcovers, black/brown paper covered boards, features 5 raised bands and gilt stamped black title label on spine covers, black endpapers, frontispiece author portrait opposite red/black ink stamped title page.

Measures: 1-1.25 (4.75 overall) W x 5 D x 7.25 H inches.

About the author and his work: Wilhelm Schäfer (1868 – 1952) was a German writer born in Ottrau (Hesse), until 1896 Schäfer was a school teacher. He gained a scholarship to study in Switzerland and France through the Cotta-Verlag publishing house, and in 1898 became a freelance writer in Berlin. He lived in Vallendar from 1900 to 1915, and from 1918 until his death in 1952, he lived in Bodman on the Bodensee.

His work (drama, novels, and short prose pieces) were naturalist in style and marked with "völkisch" and national elements. In 1930 he published a novel about the shoe-maker Wilhelm Voigt with the title Der Hauptmann von Köpenick.

From 1900 to 1920, he published the magazine Die Rheinlande. His early work was especially influenced by naturalism. Important novellas were "Die unterbrochene Rheinfahrt" (1913) und "Hölderlins Einkehr" (1925). Schäfer's folksy language and mystification of the "German soul" made his work popular to the culture of the time. less