Excerpt from Die Freiherren Von Gemperlein Und Krambambuli Never prompted by an undue desire for ordinary popularity, nor ever obliged to look to her literary work as a means of support, Marie von ebner-eschenbach has not written as much as many of her 'sisters in Apollo.' In a volume of brilliant and thoughtful aphorisms which she published in 1880, and which is generally conceded to be one of her best productions, she says. 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.