Original (German)

DAS HAIDEDORF von Adalbert Stifter EDITED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS BY OTTO HELLER professor of the German language and literature, Washington University PREFACE. If any prose-writer may be called a poet, none is more worthy of that name than Adalbert Stifter. And, unless it be a requirement that, to be ranked as classic, a writer must be dead for many years, Stifter is entitled to an honorable place among the classic writers of Germany. Not all he has written bears t