The Tragic Comedians

Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Max Liebermann, Hans Thoma and Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller. A brilliant socialist agitator and a young woman of good family love each other, and both are too vain to give an inch — and it ends in a duel. Meredith took the story from life: Ferdinand Lassalle had died in a duel over Helene von Dönniges only sixteen years before the book appeared, a...