Excerpt from Selections From The Works Of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter: Edited, With Introduction And Notes This little volume is intended for students of German who have attained a certain mastery of that language. This object is here expressed, not because the selections are uniformly so difficult, but because a mature mind can better understand and appreciate them. I have tried to avoid such selections as might, from their mere difficulty, discourage the reader, and have also attempted to choose such as should be complete in themselves. This latter circumstance will explain why no extracts have been made from the body of Jean Paul's longer novels, although two or three selections are from such works, but have no organic connection with them. I do not claim that I have made a choice, in each instance, of the best of Jean Paul's shorter writings, but I trust that each selection will be found to possess some power to interest the reader, and that each is representative of some feature of the author's manifold genius and style. Some of the selections have been known to English speaking readers of German Literature since the day of their notice by Carlyle; others, no less deserving of attention, have been known only by name or not at all. The text of nos. IV, V and VI is from Dr. Paul Nerr-lich's edition of selected works which forms vols. 130-134, incl. of Kurschner's Deutsche National-Litteratur; that of the remaining selections is from the third edition of the Samtliche Werke, with the orthography modernized. 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."