A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s,
from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor
Fontane. Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho
is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love, yet
know they have only a short time together as society deems their
relationship impossible and refuses to acknowledge the seriousness
of their feelings. But while Botho appears to have a glittering
life ahead of him, the love he feels may yet be his undoing.
Published in 1887, On Tangled Paths caused a scandal on publication
with its portrayal of a sexual affair across the classes, and is a
taut, flawless masterpiece. Theodor Fontane was born in the
Prussian province of Brandenburg in 1819. After qualifying as a
pharmacist, he made his living as a writer. From 1855 to 1859, he
lived in London and worked as a freelance journalist and press
agent for the Prussian embassy. While working as a war
correspondent during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1 he was taken
prisoner, but released after two months. His first novel, Before
the Storm, was published when he was fifty-eight and was followed
by sixteen further novels, of which Effi Briest, No Way Back and On
Tangled Paths are all published in Penguin Classics. He died in
1898. Peter James Bowman completed a PhD on Fontane at Cambridge
University, and now works as a writer and translator. 'On Tangled
Paths has the flawless logic and beautiful design of the novella at
its best' - Paul Binding, The Spectator 'There is an undertow of
sadness to this novel, yet to read it is a joy, for its humanity,
subtlety and visual immediacy' - Ruth Pavey, The Independent
'Theodor Fontane's first true masterpiece; it has a perfect
beginning, a perfect ending, and no superfluous sentence in
between' - Henry Garland
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