Word: dieses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heroine Erne Gallows is an orphaned Scotch girl, strong, passionate, beautiful. From her sailor father she inherits a reckless temper, an honest eye. The villagers mistrust her independence; they get drunk at her wedding but think her husband a queer, weak sort of man for her to pick. They are...
A young pilot at the front, just out from England, loses his nerve and tries to run away; dies a hero's death in spite of himself.
MUCH tragedy and pathos are embodied in the 135 pages of this little work, and yet presented in so restrained a manner that the emotion aroused by them is equally quiet: a feeling of pity, not active and vigorous, but deep. There is little story, rather a structure of atmosphere...
"The Empire dies out," commented Berlin's Der Abend (Socialist). "One of its last Paladins is now gone. Indeed in the whole period of the Empire there was no man who played a greater or more unwise role for Germany than Admiral von Tirpitz. He was father of the...
Heaven to Survivalist Lodge is the ether, which he thinks may be the essence of cosmic reality, the real seat of life. To the ether a man's soul "returns" when he dies; there it abides, till it learns from higher beings (who also inhabit the ether) how to...