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Title: The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing
Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise

Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Contributor: Helen Zimmern

Translator: Ernest Bell

Release Date: August 15, 2010 [EBook #33435]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration: Lessing.]

THE DRAMATIC WORKS

OF

G. E. LESSING.

Translated from the German.

EDITED BY
ERNEST BELL, M.A.,
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

WITH A SHORT MEMOIR BY HELEN ZIMMERN.

_MISS SARA SAMPSON_, _PHILOTAS_, _EMILIA GALOTTI_,
_NATHAN THE WISE_.

LONDON:
GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
1878.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES ANB SONS,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

PREFACE.

A Translation of some of Lessing's works has long been contemplated for
'Bonn's Standard Library,' and the publishers are glad to be able to
bring it out at a time when an increased appreciation of this writer
has become manifest in this country.

The publication of Mr. Sime's work on Lessing, and the almost
simultaneous appearance of Miss Helen Zimmern's shorter but probably
more popular biographical study, will, without doubt, tend to spread
amongst English-speaking people a knowledge of a writer who is held in
peculiar reverence by his own countrymen; and there is little, if
anything, of