Editing Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (section)

===Novels===
The periods of the [[Renaissance]] and [[Counter Reformation]] furnished the subjects for most of his novels. Most of his plots spring from the deeper conflict between freedom and fate and culminate in a dramatic crisis in which the hero, in the face of a great temptation, loses his moral freedom and is forced to fulfill the higher law of destiny.<ref name=Americana/>

* 1876 ''Jürg Jenatsch'' – [[Graubünden]], [[Thirty Years' War]], a story of Switzerland in the 17th century<ref name=Collier's>{{Collier's|wstitle=Meyer, Conrad Ferdinand|year=1921|inline=1}}</ref> through the conflict between Spain-Austria and France. The hero is a Protestant minister and fanatic patriot who, in his determination to preserve the independence of his little country, does not shrink from murder and treason and in whom noble and base motives are strangely blended.<ref name=Americana/>
* 1891 ''Angela Borgia'' – [[Italian Renaissance]]