1891. Sudermann, one of the leading writers of the German naturalist movement, achieved popularity through his psychological novel Dame Care. The book begins: Just when Meyerhofer's estate was to be sold by auction, his third son Paul was born. That was a hard time indeed. Frau Elsbeth, with her haggard face and melancholy smile, lay in her big four-post bed, with the cradle of the newborn child near her, and listened to every noise that reached her in her sad sickroom from the yard and house. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.