The heroine of "Brigitta" makes a barren corner of the Hungarian plains bloom. "Limestone" concerns a priest whose one erotic encounter determines his future behaviour. "Abdias" is the story of a Jew raised in the North African desert and the hero of "The Forest Path" is a counterpart to Brigitta.

"Brigitta" and Other Tales (Penguin Classics)

Adalbert Stifter

Penguin??Books

This selection features eight Novellen by leading German writers of the nineteenth century. Newly translated, each piece has an introduction which explores the many contradictions in the theory and practice of the novella, as well as analysis of the narrative devices of individual stories. Included here are Blond Eckbert, by Ludwig Tieck, The Marchioness of O..., by Heinrich von Kleist, Lenz, by Georg Büchner, The Jew's Beech, by Annette von Droste-Bülshoff, Tourmaline, by Adalbert Stifter, Mozart on the Way to Prague, by Eduard B "orike, Clothes Make the Man, by Gottfried Keller, and The White Horse Rider, by Theodor Storm. These carefully selected novellas provide a means of surveying an important and widely-studied genre in German literature.

Eight German Novellas (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Georg Büchner

Ludwig Tieck

Annette von Droste-Bulshoff

Eduard B Morike

Theodor Storm

heinrich-von-kleist

Gottfried, Keller

Literary

Oxford University Press

Excerpt from Bunte Steine: Ein FestgeschenkAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Bunte Steine: Ein Festgeschenk (Classic Reprint)

History

Americas

Forgotten Books

Brigitta, with Abdias, Limestone & the Forest Path (English and German Edition)

Richly evocative and brushed with mystery...a wonderful new translation."" - Publishers Weekly. ""A writer who portrayed the development of people, how they overcome antagonistic forces of family and nature and very often have to pay a great price until a certain serenity in life can be achieved, if at all...Edited very carefully...a pleasure to read."" - Choice. ""A chance to sample the works of a writer whom Thomas Mann once described as `one of the most remarkable, profound, secretly bold and strangely exciting story-tellers in world literature'. The selection itself is on the whole excellent."" - TLS. ""The new translation...will make the text accessible to those Women's Studies courses that discuss portrayals of gender."" - New German Studies.

World Literature

Dufour Editions

Set around the events of the succession struggle of 1142 in medieval Bohemia the main character, Witiko, the traditional founder of the Rosenberg Family, searches for the Right, finds it and his beloved, while never losing touch with the common folk. His quest is amid the panoramic backdrop of national Bohemian politics and history, with his fate paralleling that of the acknowledged rightful duke, Wladislaw, who is also seeking the path of justice. Witiko is considered one of the most significant German historical novels of the Nineteenth Century.

Witiko

Peter Lang Pub Inc

Adalbert Stifter Indian Summer

Brigitta, With Abdias, Limestone & the Forest Path

Richly evocative and brushed with mystery...a wonderful new translation.--Publishers Weekly. ""A writer who portrayed the development of people, how they overcome antagonistic forces of family and nature and very often have to pay a great price until a certain serenity in life can be achieved, if at all...Edited very carefully...a pleasure to read.""--Choice. ""A chance to sample the works of a writer whom Thomas Mann once described as `one of the most remarkable, profound, secretly bold and strangely exciting story-tellers in world literature'. The selection itself is on the whole excellent.""--TLS. ""The new translation...will make the text accessible to those Women's Studies courses that discuss portrayals of gender.""--New German Studies.

Brigitta, with Abdias, Limestone & the Forest Path

Angel Books

Set around the events of the succession struggle of 1142 in medieval Bohemia the main character, Witiko, the traditional founder of the Rosenberg Family, searches for the Right, finds it and his beloved, while never losing touch with the common folk. His quest is amid the panoramic backdrop of national Bohemian politics and history, with his fate paralleling that of the acknowledged rightful duke, Wladislaw, who is also seeking the path of justice. Witiko is considered one of the most significant German historical novels of the Nineteenth Century.

History & Criticism

Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Brigitta - bk1344; Reclam Verlag; Adalbert Stifter; pocket_book; 1988

Brigitta (Universal-Bibliothek Nr. 3911)

Reclam Philipp Jun.

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