Wilhelm Speyer

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Wilhelm Speyer

German author

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children’s literature
War and beyond
… (1927; “The Third-Form Struggle”), by Wilhelm Speyer, was Germany’s excellent contribution to the genre of the school story. Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys with humor and sympathy, but as an immediate classic in an entirely new field,…
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… (1927; “The Third-Form Struggle”), by Wilhelm Speyer, was Germany’s excellent contribution to the genre of the school story. Erich Kästner’s Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys with humor and sympathy, but as an immediate classic in an entirely new field,…
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