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Studien - FĂźnfter Band
Adalbert Stifter
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R2,100
R1,992
Discovery Miles 19 920
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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.
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Witiko (Hardcover)
Adalbert Stifter
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R1,292
Discovery Miles 12 920
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Rock Crystal (Paperback)
Adalbert Stifter; Translated by Elizabeth Mayer, Marianne Moore
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R289
R229
Discovery Miles 2 290
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Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is a Christmas story and a story
about the heart of the ice, the crystal. The charm of this
quasi-fairy tale is made even more poignant by the knowledge of the
author's eventual suicide. This seemingly simple fable of two
children lost in an icy landscape is eloquent in its innocence, but
is implicit with an unremitting consciousness of the fragility of
life and the inevitability of death. This is a wintry story of
village life in the high mountains, but also a parable of belief
and faith. The Rock Crystal of the title are shards of ice of the
glacier that dominates the landscape that Adalbert Stifter
describes. Translated from the German by Elizabeth Mayer and
Marianne Moore, Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal is published by
Pushkin Press. 'A tale of almost unendurable suspense' - New York
Review of Books Adalbert Stifter (1805-1868) was an Austrian
writer, painter and poet closely associated with the Biedermeier
movement in European art. Following his studies at the University
of Vienna, he was highly regarded as a tutor among aristocratic
families. The success of his first story The Condor in 1840
inaugurated a steady writing career, culminating in Der Nachsommer,
praised by Nietzsche as one of the two great novels of 19th century
Germany. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes
depicted in his writing, and has long been popular in the
German-speaking world, influencing writers such as Hermann Hesse,
Thomas Mann and W.G. Sebald.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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