The Honest Man at Court (1740)

By Johann Michael von Loen

First English translation of a small masterpiece of the German Enlightenment.

This interesting but neglected eighteenth-century novel, by von Lo?n - a successful merchant and a great-uncle of Goethe - comes at the end of the tradition in which members of upper-class society narrate their life-stories; the author uses the device to show the education of a prince to bring about a paragon of nobility. As a whole, it provides a revealing mirror of the attitudes of the German enlightenment. First English translation.
JOHN RUSSELL is Professor Emeritus of German at SUNY Stony Brook.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131086
• ISBN13: 9781571131089
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 6.0"