The complete online text of Moral by Ludwig Thoma.

Ludwig Thoma, satirist, political essayist, playwright, and author of first-rate stories and novels, contributed a distinctly "Old-Bavarian" note to the literary concert during Germany's Wilhelminian era. Deeply attached to the country and the plain peop...

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