Excerpt from Herodes Und Mariamne The poet himself has described the gloomy and desolate childhood in which, despite the hatred of his father and cudgeling of his mother, he developed into a bright, handsome boy. After a year in a poor ele mentary school where, however, he learned. To teak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.