Excerpt from Der Fluch Der Schoenheit: Novelle But, now, what is a Shuttle? The word corresponds in form only, not in meaning, to the English novel'. In Eng lish we make but little use of the word romance as the name of a particular literary type, and when we do use it, we do not distinguish the 'romance very sharply from the novel.' Eoth names apply to any long prose fiction, while a shorter work of the same kind is usually called by us simply a 'story or perhaps a novelette.' But in Ger man, such novels as those of Scott, Dickens, George Eliot, Hawthorne, are always called Sliomaue, the momma being something quite different. The Stoman has an elab orate plot, numerous characters, and its essence is an intri cate history. The 920mm is shorter and simpler in its make-up, and its essence is an interesting situation.' Goethe, to be sure, seems to have held that the characteristic property of a true 910mm is the novelty, the unheard-of ness, of the occurrence described.2 But this conception is not now commonly adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.