Books by Georg Julius Leopold Engel

A ship sinks with only two survivors, a young bachelor and a little toddler. The bachelor becomes the little girl's reluctant guardian. What sort of woman will he raise her to be?

Three German sisters are caught behind the advancing Russian forces at the start of World War One. Will they survive? And are the Russian officers honourable men?

Professor Vogt sees democracy as the fulfillment of Christianity's promise - but are his fellow men ready for that idea? His protege returns to his mother's estate to enact his own ideas about human dignity and faith, but are his workers as noble as he believes? Meanwhile, the professor's wife and his daughter try to keep the two men from disast

Young Hertha is left orphaned and must find her way through the pressures of her new existence and the attentions of both her childhood friend, Heinrich, and the young noble, Fritz Hohensee.

Four men contend for superiority in a small, coastal town, and a young lady is caught in their midst ... or are they caught by her?

“Theder, pay attention. It is of the greatest importance to you, what my most faithful subservience will have the honour of sharing with you now. You have namely, to say it with respect, started off wrongly up to now with womanhood. You believed in thoughtfulness? Eh what, there you put yourself in darkness. There are two things for which women have respect …”—Five stories of life on the North German coast at the start of the twentieth century, mixing humour, tragedy, and romance.—Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866–1931) was a German author and dramatist whose works were banned and whose grave was desecrated by the Nazis. A number of his novels were bestsellers, and some were adapted into movies during his own lifetime.

And even if a thousand times not; only parochialism can see in the trembling adherence of a rotting nobility the salvation of the state. He, Gus, knows and intuits, feels that the modern age is held in the conspirator Catiline, that his abettors are premature heralds of spring riding through the winter snow. Yes, and a thousand times it is so, only the subversive men have brought anything great into this world. Hence — a broom here — we want to sweep away, sweep away the snow from the path on which the steeds of the saviours trot. Sweep away so that they do not slip and fall, the coming men — sweep, sweep for the new age.—I consider it not only to be the most beautiful writing which the contemporary German arts has brought forth, but also to be one of the best and most valuable books the German people have been gifted. It is a book which arrests and captivates the reader, and which, when they have finished it, occupies them for a long time afterwards with the deep tolling which rings across from the author’s soul into our hearts … Anyone who could write such glorious pages must count amongst the authors of which our nation can be proud. – Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger—Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866–1931) was a German author and dramatist whose works were burnt and grave desecrated by the Nazis. A number of his novels were bestsellers, and some were adapted into movies during his own lifetime.

WARNING: This novel was BANNED by the Nazi authorities in German for its immoral content, and with good reason.

Four stories: a mother loses her hold over her son; a husband discovers how blind he really is; a young man returns to reconcile with his lover and her father; and a young man swears an oath which he cannot hold. Below, the white foam roared against the rock, digging and burrowing, it flooded back again and then raced up anew. Entire flocks of white seagulls whirled over the white spray, a sharp crag raised its dripping head from the whirlpool, and floating wreaths of kelp and seaweed swirled about down there in narrow circles. Here it must happen! His bestsellers burnt and his grave desecrated by the Nazis, Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866-1931) has been unfairly neglected by subsequent generations. A number of his novels were adapted into movies during his own lifetime, but his perceptive investigations of the human soul have for the most part not been translated into English until now.

Imprisoned in a lunatic asylum, Professor Karl Barkentin writes the confession of how he came to murder his wife.I watched Lilli wordlessly for quite some time, and then - then it climbed up in me for the first time; an uncanny delight beset me with the thought, "If this women were to lie dead before you, then you would be single and rid of all the worrying; death is the actual lover she needs, he will hold her fast and guard her.Georg Julius Leopold Engel (1866-1931) was a German author and dramatist whose works were banned and grave desecrated by the Nazis. A number of his novels were bestsellers, and some were adapted into movies during his own lifetime.

Thus sometimes a man stands and waits for a specific hour when fortune shall come, and at the same time, fortune already stands behind him, and she is a white, rosy-cheeked, wondrous girl who waits with heart pounding for the man to embrace her; and the man does not do it and thinks fortune must first come to him; and then he suddenly hears such a gentle rustling, and when he looks around, then the rosy-cheeked girl of fortune is going from him in tears, and behind him stands Mrs Sorrow with her grey cloak and grins at him and says, "Blockhead, now you can wait a long time for the little girl, but I, my boy, will keep you company for a bit here."