Theodor Fontane

Theodor Fontane ( ; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist writer.

Read more about Theodor Fontane:  Youth, Newspaper Writer and Critic, London, Prussian War, Later Years, Works, Poems

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