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CASTLE, EDUARD, Grosse Unbekannte: das Leben von Charles Sealsfield (Karl Postl). [with as Band II] Briefe und Aktenstucke.
Band II mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Joseph A. von Bradish, College of the City of New York. Vienna: Manutiuspresse, [1952]. 2 volumes. 726+[2]pp. + folding rear genealogical table. [12]+434+[2]pp. 34 half-tones in Band I and 18 in Band II, all on inserted plate leaves. Printed olive-gray linen with brown spine lettering; [Briefe Band] red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and gilt front initials. Very good in moderately edgeworn pictorial dust jackets. Briefe Band: Wien: Verlag Karl Werner, (1955). Issued in or after 1955 as a set. In the original mottled cardboard box with printed paper label listing both titles (top edge of the box cracked, else very good). 3 pounds 14.4 ounces = 1.8 kg. 8.8 x 5.6 x 3.6 inches = 22 x 14 x 9cm. Postl wasn an Austrian-American author of novels and travelogues, whose writings appeared under the pseudonym "Charles Sealsfield." Born in Moravia, he entered the Kreuzherrenorden in Prague, where he became a priest. In the Autumn of 1822 he fled to America, where he assumed the name of Charles Sealsfield. In 1826 he returned to Germany and published a book on America (Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika), which was followed by an outspoken criticism of Austria, written in English (Austria as It Is, 1828) and published anonymously in London. Meanwhile he had returned to America, where he published his first novel, also in English, Tokeah, or the White Rose (1828). He now turned journalist, first in New York City and subsequently in Paris and London, as correspondent for various journals. In 1832 he settled in Switzerland, and in 1860 purchased a small estate near Solothurn. Here he died in May 1864. His will first revealed the fact that he was the former monk, Postl. It is as a German novelist that he is best known. His Tokeah appeared in German under the title Der Legitime und die Republikaner (1838), and was followed by a number of successful novels. Sealsfield occupies an important position in the development of the German-language historical novel at a time when Walter Scott's influence was waning. He widened the scope of historical fiction to include great national and political movements. [Taken from the Wikipedia article on Sealsfield April 20, 2006, most of which in turn was taken from the 11th Britannica.] . Binding: HB. Dustjacket: edgeworn.
Offered for US$ 100.00 by: John Gach Books - Book number: 087895