Klauprecht, Emil
Cincinnati, or The Mysteries of the West

Emil Klauprecht's German-American Novel. Translated by Steven Rowan. Edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann.

Cincinnati, or The Mysteries of the West was the major mid-nineteenth century German-American novel, written by a prominent journalist, author, and historian, Emil Klauprecht. The novel is a sensational one written in the form of the urban mystery novel and contains a great deal of information on German-American social life and history in the Ohio Valley, New Orleans, and elsewhere. XXV,657 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (New German-American Studies; Vol. 10/Peter Lang Verlag 1996) Mängelexemplar/near mint