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Issue Details: First known date: 1934... 1934 These Glorious Crusaders : a contemporary novel
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'The story of These Glorious Crusaders relates to the German book-trade, as conducted for their own profit by the "bibliophiles" and publishers. It exposes not only the frauds of those who took advantage of the 1914-18 war but also the vanity of ambition, as seen in the career of Ruben Erzmann, a Jewish commercial traveller who rose to the position of the most powerful influence in the trade...' (R.G.H. Southerly 10.4, 1949, p. 218).

Notes

  • Dedication: To Diana
  • Epigraph:

    Erasmus: It was my consolation that all my contemporaries had reached the highest forms of lunacy. Some of them will have possibly regained their reason

    Lucien: That I doubt very much. But what were your contemporaries' chief forms of lunancy?

    Erasmus: I have compiled a list of them. Read it!

    Voltaire

  • Author's note: This novel was originally published in Germany some years ago...the late Professor Chris. Brennan was sufficiently interested in the novel to put a great deal of work into its translation, the author may be forgiven for enabling those who admired the writings of the dead poet to peruse a lengthy example of his prose.
  • Translation of 11/10 : ein zeitgenössischer Roman (Frankfurt a.M.: Mittelland-Verlag, 1925).

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Works about this Work

A Request from Walter Struve to Brian Taylor Walter Struve , 2011 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , September - December no. 371 2011; (p. 171)
Brennan Translates a Novel R. G. Howarth , 1949 single work column
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 4 1949; (p. 218)
A Request from Walter Struve to Brian Taylor Walter Struve , 2011 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , September - December no. 371 2011; (p. 171)
Brennan Translates a Novel R. G. Howarth , 1949 single work column
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 10 no. 4 1949; (p. 218)
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