Publishing House of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1968. — 619 c. Volume IV covers the history of German literature from 1848 to 1918. It consists of two large sections .. The first section covers the literary process in the era of the struggle for reunification. Germany (until 1871.) ). The second section gives an idea of the development of German literature in the era of the German Empire before the revolution of 1918. Considerable attention is paid in volume IV to the problem of German critical realism of the second half of the century - the work of F. Reiter, W. Raabe, T. Storm, T. Fountain - and its further evolution in XX in . , which nominated such prominent German writers as G. Hauptmann, T. Mann, G. Mann, whose work developed in a complex struggle of literary trends that opposed the literature of the Junker-bourgeois reaction. The task of the team working on the History of German Literature was to show the origin, formation and development of German literature from the early Middle Ages to 1945. In this work, the history of literature is associated with the history of the people, so the authors considered it impossible to consider the history of German, Austrian and Swiss literature as a whole, but the specifics of the interaction between these peoples and their literatures are given great attention. Showing the national identity and significance of German literature, It has given the world so many bright and noble names........................................ authors sought to highlight the world importance of great works, created by the genius of the German people , Study international relations of German literature , which has contributed to its dissemination and recognition...................................... While working on the History of German Literature, Soviet scientists sought to create a work that would be useful not only for philologists, but also for the general readership. (from editorial)