Three German Classics
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library with usual markings
Within the pages of Three German Classics, three masterworks of nineteenth-century German literature are united in a single volume, offering an unparalleled window into the romantic, realist, and proto-expressionist currents of the era. Theodor Storm's Immensee chronicles a melancholic love story steeped in lyrical nostalgia; Georg Büchner's Lenz details the psychological unravelling of the tormented poet Jakob Lenz with shattering intensity; and Gottfried Keller's A Village Romeo and Juliet presents a tragic rural idyll of doomed young love set against the Swiss countryside. Together, these three novellas illuminate the breadth and contradictions of the German literary imagination — from Storm's delicate, elegiac prose to Büchner's raw, almost modernist psychological realism and Keller's poetic social critique. Each work stands as a monument in its own right, yet in combination they form a conversation across decades about love, loss, and the crushing weight of social circumstance. This anthology is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the foundations upon which twentieth-century German literature was built — and to discover why these voices still resonate with such startling power.
Author: Theodor Storm, Georg Büchner, Gottfried Keller
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Ex-library with usual markings
Within the pages of Three German Classics, three masterworks of nineteenth-century German literature are united in a single volume, offering an unparalleled window into the romantic, realist, and proto-expressionist currents of the era. Theodor Storm's Immensee chronicles a melancholic love story steeped in lyrical nostalgia; Georg Büchner's Lenz details the psychological unravelling of the tormented poet Jakob Lenz with shattering intensity; and Gottfried Keller's A Village Romeo and Juliet presents a tragic rural idyll of doomed young love set against the Swiss countryside. Together, these three novellas illuminate the breadth and contradictions of the German literary imagination — from Storm's delicate, elegiac prose to Büchner's raw, almost modernist psychological realism and Keller's poetic social critique. Each work stands as a monument in its own right, yet in combination they form a conversation across decades about love, loss, and the crushing weight of social circumstance. This anthology is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the foundations upon which twentieth-century German literature was built — and to discover why these voices still resonate with such startling power.