First English translation of a major historical novel by Wilhelm Raabe, famous late 19th-century German novelist. Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) was Germany's greatest realist novelist. He has been called by Jeffrey Sammons the major novelist in the German language between Goethe and Fontane. Das Odfeld, first published in 1888-89, occupies an undisputed place among Raabe's dozen or so novels of the first rank. The historical novel, set during the...