Books by Friedrich Schiller

The Aesthetical Letters And EssaysThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions.2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!

Schillers bekanntestes Drama uber die Rivalitat eines Bruderpaares, das unterschiedlicher nicht sein konnte: Der altere Sohn wird von seinem Vater geliebt, ist intelligent und studiert. Sein eifersuchtiger Bruder hingegen fuhlte sich schon immer benachteiligt und versucht, an das Erbe des Vaters heranzukommen, indem er Lugen uber seinen Bruder erzahlt. Als der Vater daraufhin seinen eigentlichen Lieblingssohn enterbt, schliet sich dieser einer Rauberbande an und sein Leben nimmt eine dramatische Wende.-

In 1781 Friedrich Schiller's "The Robbers" (Die Räuber) was published and it signaled the start of Schiller's first period of his works (1781 - 1785). Fittingly, the first two poems of this collection were originally introduced in this play. It is also noteworthy that the poems were first published in an anthology (now a literary rarity) together with poems by some of his contemporaries. They contain amongst other things the beautiful and impassioned "Laura Poems" as well as the dramatic sketch "Semele". All of these poems give an excellent insight into Schiller's early - Sturm und Drang - lyrical beginnings.