Excerpt from Die Harzreise, With Selections From Heine's Prose and Verse: Edited With Introduction, Notes, Exercises and Vocabulary The charm of Heine's Harzreise is universally ao knowledged. Many of his other works, however, possess equal charm and interest, and this fact has led the editor to include in this volume a wide selec tion of the author's prose. The arrangement of the selections follows in a gen eral way the course of Heine's life and furnishes a fairly complete biography. Thus the student acquires a broader, deeper and more personal conception of the poet's aims and ideals than from a long Introduction. At the same time he is reading the best German, simple, entertaining, sparkling with wit and satire, or brimming with pathos. The illustrations of places or important persons described or mentioned in the selections give additional interest to the narrative. The illustration of the Place Vendome was obtained through the courtesy of Mr. Charles Emerson Stone of Phillips Academy, Andover. The notes are very full, and aim to interpret the text, rather than to furnish helps in translation. These latter will be found in the vocabulary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.