Georg Jenatsch

Konrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) was a Swiss poet and novelist, one of the acknowledged masters of the 19th-century historical novel. For a long time, he doubted his calling and turned to literature only in adulthood: his first book, the collection Twenty Ballads (1864), appeared when he was almost forty. Meyer's true recognition came after he turned forty-five, when he devoted himself entirely ...