Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama by Gerhart Hauptmann
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"Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama" by Gerhart Hauptmann is a social drama written in 1889. The play depicts a wealthy farming family's descent into alcoholism and decay after discovering coal on their land. Helene, the only daughter educated away from home, suffers in this environment until a visiting economist arrives to study local workers. Their developing romance faces a devastating obstacle when he discovers her family's alcoholism, believing it hereditary. The work marked
the breakthrough of naturalism in German theater. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vor_Sonnenaufgang |
| Credits |
Produced by Peter Becker, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 87.1 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | German |
| LoC Class | PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures |
| Subject | German drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 52218 |
| Release Date | Jun 2, 2016 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 930 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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