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When the young priest Francesco Vela becomes the incumbent of the parish of Soana, a small village in Ticino, he is tasked with bringing back into the Catholic fold a family of shepherds, the Scarabotas, who are accused of indecency and incest. Yet, after visiting them among the grandiose scenery of the alpine mountains and meeting their beautiful daughter Agata, Francesco experiences a spiritual and sensual awakening that throws his world and his beliefs upside down, forcing him to choose between his faith and his desire to connect with nature.
This multi-layered tale, first published in 1918, is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of Gerhart Hauptmann, the recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the most important exponents of German Naturalism.
Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the
eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the
emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a
picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman
engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed
to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the most
drastic measures. Partly autobiographical, and the prototype for
many later Romantic works in its depiction of the sensitive,
tortured hero, Goethe's seminal classic is a timeless masterpiece
of world literature.
Originally published in 1950, this collaboration of two
accomplished translators resulted in the first English verse
translation of a major work of German literature. Rather than a
translation of the entire poem, in this volume the translators
present key passages connected by prose summaries, and include an
introduction giving an overview of the work and its historical and
literary context.
An imperishable gem of German literature, Kleist's The Broken
Pitcher is pure comedy. The author's handling of the theme--the
judge as culprit--shows supreme mastery. This translation by Bayard
Q. Morgan, originally published in 1961, is faithful in form.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
From the cycle "Zurich Novellas" by Gottfried Keller: In 1877
Gottfried Keller published his "Zurich Novellas" (Z richer
Novellen), a series of short novels dealing with the history of
Zurich and Switzerland. "Ursula" is a love story between a Swiss
soldier and the daughter of a farmer during the time of the Swiss
Reformation lead by Ulrich Zwingli and at the beginning of the
Anabaptist movement in Europe in the 16th century. --- "Gottfried
Keller was one of the foremost Swiss novelists and one of the most
original figures of German literature since Goethe, a master of
style worthy to be classed with the great names of all ages." (John
Albrecht Walz)
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