Ingo (Classic Reprint): The First Novel of a Series Entitled Our Forefathers

Excerpt from Ingo

This work will contain a series of purely ficti tious tales, in which the fates of an individual. Race are related. It begins with ancestors from the earliest time, and will, if the powers of the author and his pleasure in the work continue, be gradually carried on up to the last desceu dant  a vigorous fellow who still wanders about under the German sun, without caring much about the deeds and sufferings of his forefathers. The book will contain much that is poetic, and not at all a history of civilization. Un doubtedly it is not exactly for its pleasant shortness that the undertaking will be praised. The author would in the beginning prefer being silent as to how the individual stories may be united into a whole.