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  • But those of us who call Sudermann the first of living dramatists, do so on account of the extreme nobility of his heroines 'conduct judged by the criteria of the future.

    Socialism: Positive and Negative Robert Rives La Monte

  • The novel is set in a Mennonite community living in the steppes of pre-revolutionary Russia where Katya Vogt's father manages the wealthy Sudermann family estate of Privol'noye.

    The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell 2006

  • The novel is set in a Mennonite community living in the steppes of pre-revolutionary Russia where Katya Vogt's father manages the wealthy Sudermann family estate of Privol'noye.

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  • The novel is set in a Mennonite community living in the steppes of pre-revolutionary Russia where Katya Vogt's father manages the wealthy Sudermann family estate of Privol'noye.

    The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell 2006

  • Sudermann, the novelist, has carried his philosophy of egoism to its extreme.

    Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

  • Sudermann and Hauptmann and the rest, in the final decade of the nineteenth century -- that is to say, for a period of nearly sixty years -- only one German author succeeded in winning a worldwide celebrity -- and Heine was a Hebrew, who died in Paris, out of favor with his countrymen, perhaps because he had been unceasing in calling attention to the deficiencies of German culture.

    The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe Various

  • Heinrich Heine is the one writer of the first rank that Germany can boast between the death of Goethe in 1832 and the advent of the younger generation of dramatists, Sudermann, Hauptmann, and the rest, sixty years later.

    The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 Various

  • Shaw, Maeterlinck, and above all, Sudermann, whose heroes and heroines attempt to put into practice the ideals of to-morrow in the environment of to-day, are misunderstood and disliked by the majority, and understood and appreciated only by the few who, like themselves, have rejected the current code and adopted the criteria of to-morrow.

    Socialism: Positive and Negative Robert Rives La Monte

  • But these are defects in Sudermann the novelist and dramatist, and in that Sudermann only.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • Sudermann was one of the first deer flushed by Arno

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

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