The German Classics, v. 20
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A good fit for
- General readers who want a systematic overview of German literary classics but lack the language skills
- Students in foreign literature or comparative literature courses as supplementary reading
- Writers who need free electronic texts to excerpt and quote
- Those interested in the editorial practices of nineteenth-century German literature anthologies
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- Specialist researchers in German literature who need line-by-line collation and detailed annotations
- Readers seeking contemporary German literature or complete individual works
- Readers who prefer Chinese translations and are not comfortable with English translations
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