The Ruby
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A good fit for
- Intermediate and advanced German learners wishing to engage with original literary texts
- Scholars and students of early twentieth-century German literature
- Readers interested in public-domain German texts from Project Gutenberg
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- Readers with no German who need a Chinese translation
- Casual readers preferring fast-paced modern fiction
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- First assess your German reading level, then decide whether to read closely or extensively.
- Keep a German dictionary handy and note new words and period expressions as you read.
- Consult background materials on early twentieth-century German literature to understand the text's context.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Gustav Sack (1885–1916) was a German poet and novelist, often regarded as one of the pioneers of Expressionist literature. Born in 1885, he died on the front lines of the First World War in 1916 at the age of thirty-one, and his writing career was brief and concentrated. His representative work is Der Rubin, and he also wrote Der rote Weinstock. Because he died so young, his works circulated only to a limited extent, and publicly available material on him is relatively scarce; a complete account of his life still awaits further study. Sack's works tend to focus on the spiritual tension and inner conflicts of individuals under the pressure of reality, with a concise and highly charged language that carries the strong subjective quality common to Expressionist literature. Though small in quantity, his writing offers an early example of German-language Expressionism in the early twentieth century and has drawn the attention of later scholars.
