Excerpt from Heine's Prose: With Introduction and Notes The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible to advanced students of German the models of style which are contained abundantly in Heine's prose works. The guid ing principle in the selection of passages for the present edition has been to group together extracts that might be truly representative, and at the same time in their variety might illustrate the versatility of the author's genius. In thus attempting to represent fairly all the best of Heine's autobiographical, critical, and descriptive prose works, it was difficult to keep within the space-limit desirable for a text-book. This restriction will explain to admirers of the poet, the omission, which is much to be regretted, of many favorite passages found in the large mass of Heine's prose writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.