Freytag

[frahy-tahk]

noun

Gus·tav

[goo s-tahf] /ˈgʊs tɑf/, 1816–95, German novelist, playwright, and journalist.

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Freytag has described this phenomenon at its beginnings in a romance which is a chef d'oeuvre.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915
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The east front of Bergues was invested on the 23rd, and Freytag spread out his Dunkirk.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2
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The novels of 'The Ancestors' are a culmination of Freytag's literary evolution.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
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With his next play, 'Die Valentine' , Freytag however was signally successful.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
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Freytag's antiquarianism is not of the dilettante kind that is content to masquerade modern motives in ancient garb and setting.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15
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British Dictionary definitions for freytag

Freytag

noun

Gustav (ˈɡʊstaf). 1816–95, German novelist and dramatist; author of the comedy Die Journalisten (1853) and Soll und Haben (1855), a novel about German commercial life

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