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The Story. Hermann Sudermann, novelist and dramatist, one of the most significant and important figures in recent German literature, turns, in The Book of My Youth, to reminiscence, and sets down, at some length, the exterior and interior events of his life as far as the middle twenties.

Born on a farm in East Prussia, in a back room built on to a brewery, descended from Mennonite peasant stock, he was a delicate child whose...

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