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Mathilde Möhring
Theodor Fontane; Edited by Rachael Huener; Afterword by Helen Chambers
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R1,804
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The first English translation of Fontane's late, posthumously
published novel, featuring the eponymous, complex heroine and
confronting issues regarding gender roles and marriage that still
resonate today. Theodor Fontane hesitated to publish his late novel
Mathilde Möhring because he believed it was too modern for his
readership. Published posthumously in 1906, its themes - corrosive
economic precarity, the ambivalence of marriage for women, and the
burden of work expectations for men - resonate uncannily with
readers today. The heroine Mathilde and her mother cling to the
underside of the lower middle class by renting out a room in their
small Berlin apartment. Their new tenant seems to offer a path to
middle-class security, so although marriage is not her first
choice, Mathilde applies her shrewd yet limited understanding of
class mores to pursue it - with results both triumphant and
catastrophic. The last among Fontane's powerfully drawn female
protagonists, Mathilde is unlike any previous heroine of a German
novel: intelligent and energetic but plain and deeply pragmatic. We
follow the flawed but fearless Mathilde from the bustling
metropolis of Berlin to Woldenstein, a sleepy backwater town she
single-handedly transforms, and back. Unknown in the
English-speaking world, this compact work has the humor and pathos
familiar to readers of Fontane, and is powerfully evocative of the
politics of class, gender, and religion in late 19th-century
Germany. Also included are an introduction, an afterword, and
extensive endnotes that richly contextualize the work for both
general readers and students of literature, history, gender
studies, and German studies.
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The Stechlin (Paperback)
Theodor Fontane; Translated by William L. Zwiebel
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R950
Discovery Miles 9 500
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First English translation of the final work of Theodor Fontane, one
of Germany's most significant novelists. Theodor Fontane (1819-98),
widely regarded as Germany's most significant novelist between
Goethe and Thomas Mann, pioneered the German novel of manners and
upper-class society, following a trend in European fiction of the
period.The Stechlin is Fontane's last book and his political
testament. Like Effi Briest, his great work on the place of women
in Bismarck's empire, it is set at the apex of the Wilhelmine era,
both in Berlin and on the estate of a Prussian Junker on the shores
of Lake Stechlin. It is a significant historical and cultural
document, probably the finest chronicle of the lifestyle of the
German upper classes in the late nineteenth century; Fontane
portrays the best in the life and ways of the passing Prussian
aristocracy, while describing his hopes for the future of Germany
and its nobility, which were never to be fully realized. Although
this novel has been translated into many languages, it has never
before been available in English; this edition thus fills an
important gap in the significant works of European literature
accessible to English readers.
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Ellernklipp (Paperback)
Theodor Fontane
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R294
R239
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On Tangled Paths (Paperback)
Theodor Fontane; Translated by Peter James Bowman
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R305
R247
Discovery Miles 2 470
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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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Stine
Theodor Fontane
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R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
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Unwiederbringlich
Theodor Fontane
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R756
Discovery Miles 7 560
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Quitt
Theodor Fontane
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Discovery Miles 6 520
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Vor dem Sturm
Theodor Fontane
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R810
Discovery Miles 8 100
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Ellernklipp
Theodor Fontane
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R523
Discovery Miles 5 230
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