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Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner (Volume 1); The Records of an Eventful Life

Memoirs of Bertha Von Suttner (Volume 1); The Records of an Eventful Life

Suttner, Bertha Von

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ISBN10: 1150078855
ISBN13: 9781150078859
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.22 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... II EARLY YOUTH Elvira Playing puff My mother's singing Clairvoyant Aunt Lotti Roulette and trente-at-quarante Castles in the air My first journey Season in Wiesbaden Return Grillparzer and Ebner-Eschenbach at Elvira's Radetzky's death A schoolgirl romance .en I was nearly twelve years old I was for V V the first time vouchsafed the good fortune of getting a companion of almost my own age. A sister of my mother, known to me as Aunt Lotti, came on a visit, accompanied by her only daughter, Elvira. We two girls were fired with friendship for each other. I say fired, for our mutual affection was an ardent one, and Elvira in particular showed a real adoration for me. Aunt Lotti was the widow of a Saxon named BUschel, by occupation a gentleman of leisure and bookworm. Elvira had, so to speak, grown up in her father's library. Biischel's favorite department had been philosophy, and he conversed with his little one mainly about Hegel, Fichte, and Kant. For refreshment from such heavy diet he handed her Shakespeare. And for very special sugarplums, Uhland, Kbrner, Holderlin. Of course the result of this education was a little bluestocking. Elvira had begun writing at the age of eight, -- songs, ballads, and the like, -- and when I made her acquaintance she had already composed several dramas in prose and a few tragedies in verse. That she was to become the greatest poetess of the century was a settled thing in her mind, in Aunt Lotti's, and in mine. Perhaps she would have, if an early death had not snatched her away. She did win the recognition of great connoisseurs -- I name only Grillparzer, who read her pieces with admiring amazement and prophesied a great future for her. In o...

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