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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Charles Sealsfield (1793–1864)

Sealsfield, Charles, alias of Karl Anton Postl. An Austrian novelist and miscellaneous writer; born at Poppitz in Moravia, March 3, 1793; died near Soleure, May 26, 1864. He lived in the United States under the name of Charles Sealsfield, 1822–26, and again 1827–30. He wrote: ‘Sketches of Transatlantic Travel’ (1834); ‘Life Pictures from Both Hemispheres’ (1835). Among his novels are: ‘Tokeah; or, The White Rose’ (1828); ‘Virey and the Aristocrats’ (1834); ‘German-American Elective Affinities’ (1839).