Excerpt from The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. 4 of 20: Masterpieces of German Literature, Translated Into English Special Writers benjamin W. Wells, ph.d., Author of M odern German Literature The Life of Jean Paul. James taft hatfield, ph.d., Professor of the German Language and Litera ture, Northwestern University The Early Romantic School. Calvin thomas, LL.D., Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia University Introduction to Lucinda. John S. Nollen, ph.d., President of Lake Forest College The Life of Heinrich von Kleist. 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.