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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,
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The gentle melancholy of two people coming together in a way which
can never lead to full satisfaction, the quiet tragedy of a
separation not forced by external powers but by the constant
pressure of circumstances-this is what sounds through this splendid
story. "Trials and Tribulations" is built entirely on this motive.
An honest sturdy young officer and a decent pretty girl get to know
each other on an excursion. Unconsciously they drift into a
relation where heart meets heart, the breaking of which causes the
deepest pain. But both see clearly from the beginning that there is
no other end. For they know that the world is stronger than the
individual, and the many small moments than the one supreme. They
know it, for they are, like their creator, resigned realists. They
shut their eyes only in order not to see the end too near. (Richard
M. Meyer)---The interest of Fontane's novels lies rather in
character than in action. While he portrays many types
characteristic of Berlin and the surrounding region, and is very
successful in rendering local color and the atmosphere of the
particular circle described in each book, his penetration into
universal human nature is sufficiently deep to raise him far above
provincialism. His effort is to represent people vividly and
naturally in their normal relations, not to strain after
sensational or even dramatic situations. "Trials and Tribulations"
("Irrungen Wirrungen," 1887) gives an excellent idea of his power.
In a gently moving story, told without the forcing of emotion or
the contriving of exciting scenes, he deals with the pathos of the
relation between a man and a woman, alike in an attractive
simplicity of character, but forced apart by difference of rank.
The situation is laid before us without expressed censure or
protest, and is allowed to have its effect by the sober truth of
its presentation. Fontane's is an honest and sincere art, none the
less great because unpretentious. (W.A.N.)
Since it was first published in 1932, "A Frontier Lady" has held a
high and special place in the literature of Americas westward
migration. Written in the 1880s at the request of her son, the
philosopher and educator Josiah Royce, Sarah Royce's narrative of
the family odyssey across the continent and of their early years in
California is also the portrait of a remarkable woman. In the words
of her daughter-in-law, "Wherever she was, she made civilization,
even when it seemed that she had little indeed from which to make
it."
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