Highly successful in a genre that is now generally out of favor, the Austrian Peter Rosegger wrote Dorfgeschichten (village tales) and novels about his native Styria with a prolixity unmatched by his predecessors and contemporaries in literary...
Peter Rosegger (31 July 1843 - 26 June 1918) was an Austrian poet from the province of Styria. He was a farmer's boy and grew up in the forests and fields. Rosegger (or Rossegger) went on to become a most productive poet and author as well as an...