Word: unloveliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...written with a calm, thoughtful air, describing in great detail the mental processes and the doings of some of the unloveliest people ever seen outside the caricatures of George Grosz. The first of the three books is The Romantic, laid in 1888, and picturing the world of potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with...
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