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| 1819–98, German writer. Although he is primarily important as a novelist, he did not begin to write fiction until he was almost 60 years old.… The first master of the realistic novel in Germany, he wrote perceptive novels revealing the situation of contemporary Berlin society.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.) |
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